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🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Creator of Zen Habits, Leo Babauta, shares how he finally quit smoking 20 years ago after 7 unsuccessful attempts, and the 5 practical things he did differently to make it stick for good.
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0:44.5 | It was a handful of things. |
0:45.9 | One of them was commitment. |
0:47.8 | So before I would be like, I'm going to quit smoking today. |
0:50.5 | Like, it was like, I'm going to take out the trash. You know, it's like not a big commitment, right? |
0:54.3 | And so for this one I said I'm going to quit but I'm going to quit on this date. That's not an idea I came up with but it's a |
1:00.0 | you choose a quit date that it's that's like at least a week out. |
1:03.4 | From there you start doing the things that you need to do ahead of that, |
1:07.0 | so you start preparing for it. |
1:08.9 | And so already you can see how that's already a much bigger commitment than what I was doing before. |
1:13.8 | This is my quit day. I told people about it. I started tracking my current smoking so that I could |
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