It really is surprising just how much you can get from a very little amount of time. When I quit smoking (and even some of the times I unsuccessfully tried) one simple trick I used when I felt the urge was to simply say “I’ll go in 5 minutes” and resume whatever I was doing.
Every single time it was 30 minutes, an hour, a couple of hours later that the next urge for a smoke returned. Moreover, I never really felt I was waiting in anticipation of that 5 minutes to expire.
Now, I don’t think that is what ultimately accomplished the quitting but it did address one of the problems that will lead to not quitting.
Procrastinating on bad habits is a powerful thing! Saying “never” leads to an internal conflict, but saying “later” often doesn’t… and as we procrastinators already know, it often has the same result.
I only use this method randomly, but it has about 50% success rate… I mean the chance that “later” becomes “not today”, without having to make an explicit decision about not doing it today.
It really is surprising just how much you can get from a very little amount of time. When I quit smoking (and even some of the times I unsuccessfully tried) one simple trick I used when I felt the urge was to simply say “I’ll go in 5 minutes” and resume whatever I was doing.
Every single time it was 30 minutes, an hour, a couple of hours later that the next urge for a smoke returned. Moreover, I never really felt I was waiting in anticipation of that 5 minutes to expire.
Now, I don’t think that is what ultimately accomplished the quitting but it did address one of the problems that will lead to not quitting.
Procrastinating on bad habits is a powerful thing! Saying “never” leads to an internal conflict, but saying “later” often doesn’t… and as we procrastinators already know, it often has the same result.
I only use this method randomly, but it has about 50% success rate… I mean the chance that “later” becomes “not today”, without having to make an explicit decision about not doing it today.