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'Trying' to Quit Smoking isn't Good Enough

Have you ever said those words? How about "I'm going to try AGAIN", or "Might as well give it another shot, what have I got to lose." You can't think like this. A famous quote and pardon me for not knowing who said it, states that 'Nobody who tries anything, accomplishes very much.' And the same is true for quitting smoking.

Even though you are looking to convince yourself or someone else that you truly desire to quit, by saying 'try', you are conditioning your subconscious beliefs for potential failure.

Need an example? How about this. My wife has a fear of roller coasters and I don't know where it came from. She's not afraid of heights and not really afraid of speed, so why this is, I still haven't figured it out. And the funny thing is she can't tell me why either.

And during the rare times my son and I have been persuasive enough to get her into the line, it is always tempered with 'I'll try'. This gives her the opportunity to reneg on her offer without too much teasing. And she always does.

So what gives her a way out? The word 'try' of course. Trying isn't like promising or really committing to something. It's more like a convenience. And saying you'll try isn't going to work when quitting smoking because whether you realize it or not, you've probably set yourself up for failure because now you've allowed yourself a way out.

Talk to any smoker who has gone through this process, some of them more than once, and you will find that when they set out to achieve their goal of quitting they said 'I'll try' and when they failed, they state 'Oh well, I tried.'

So let's try a different approach. Develop a policy such as this for your quit smoking efforts. 'I will quit no matter what. I believe I have the fortitude to achieve my goal. Nothing will stop me from reaching it.' Make a powerful statement like that to yourself and believe it and your success is guaranteed.

If you want to hold yourself accountable to your goal of becoming a non-smoker, then you MUST put statements like this onto paper. And then you MUST place these pieces of paper where you can see them often so that you never lose sight of your ultimate goal.

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