Kick the Habit - Smoking Quiting Healing 

Successfully Quit Smoking

The stool or more correctly, the legs of the stool are a metaphor for what I feel is one of the most important aspects of quitting smoking - SUPPORT. Picture if you will sitting down at the computer to write a letter on a stool with only one leg and how difficult it would be to remain on it. Sure, you can say \'If the leg is in the middle of the stool, balancing shouldn\'t be too hard.\' True, but what say the one leg is attached to the outer perimeter as normal? Do you think it would be much harder to concentrate on finishing your letter if most of your attention is spent trying not to fall over? Probably very difficult, I would think.

Now what would happen if we added a second leg? Would it be easier to maintain balance. Sure it would. You would only have to give it half the attention for with two legs it would only move back and forth or side to side. And this would make it far easier to maintain balance and keep your attention on the task at hand.

Let\'s now add the third leg, which by the way has been shown to be the most stable arrangement for a stool, and what do we get. Right - perfect stability. We can now sit with complete confidence upon our three legged stool and focus all our attention on our letter because we no longer have the fear of falling over (failure).

How does this metaphor relate to quitting smoking? Well, like the one legged stool, if you attempt to quit smoking on your own with no other support, it will be that much more difficult to stay focused. Why try to do it alone when there are friends out there who would be more than willing to help you. Adding another couple of legs to your efforts would be recommended to get more stability (support), but four, five or more friends would not be out of line either.

Although having five legs of support on a stool may look funny, having this number of support people at your disposal when quitting smoking is smart. But be sure to inform whomever you ask to help you that they don\'t harp on or badger you about quitting, only to be there when you need their valued assistance. And if you are courageous enough, and I hope you are, make a pact with yourself that if at any time after you quit you are tempted by yourself or someone else that having \'just one\' wouldn\'t hurt, you must call all your \'legs\' and say \"Hi, it\'s me. I\'ve decided to start smoking again.\" If you can make it through all of these phone calls and still believe that \'one\' won\'t hurt, I\'d be very surprised.

Find the right people to support and help you through the difficult times and before you know it, you will be FREE!

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Prison smoking ban forces inmates to kick the habit (KVBC Las Vegas)

Wednesday may go down in history as the day the most smokers in Nevada quit at one time. That's because prison inmates and prison employees can no longer smoke on property.

NHS service helps 7,600 smokers to kick habit (Yorkshire Post Today)

MORE than 7,600 smokers in North Yorkshire have been helped to quit by the NHS since the smoking ban was introduced two years ago yesterday. (02/07/2009 10:10:15)

Heavy-smoking Greece tries to kick the habit with ban (Reuters) (Yahoo!7 World News)

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greeks were banned from smoking at work and inside bars and restaurants on Wednesday, but many question how the measure will work in Europe's heaviest smoking nation.

Heavy-smoking Greece tries to kick the habit with ban (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News)

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greeks were banned from smoking at work and inside bars and restaurants on Wednesday, but many question how the measure will work in Europe's heaviest smoking nation.