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[ozzy]

I'm pretty sure it's still a willpower thing, but for smokers who don't really have willpower, it's a big step to take. It's like physiotherapy where someone is regaining strength in an arm and starts out with 1lbs. weights to lift and feels the strain of having to do so, even though everyr other healthy (and most unhealthy) people don't regard it as a challenge at all.

The first steps are always the smallest and the toughest

Willpower shouldn't have anything to do with it honestly. Its ridiculously easy to quit once you're in the right mindset. Thinking that you need strong willpower to quit smoking means you're in the mindset that you're making some sort of sacrifice by quitting. Like you're giving up some important thing that you want or need. If you think about it as a willpower thing you're only making it more difficult on yourself. I'm not saying the willpower method doesn't work at all, in some cases it does, but there are much easier ways to go about quitting.

I wouldn't compare it to physiotherapy at all though. Quitting is so much simpler than that, and like I said thinking of it as anything more than that is just making it more difficult on yourself.

well i only meant that after about 90 days, your lungs become a lot cleaner. not to how they were before you started smoking but they do get a lot cleaner. i guess some of the gunk that was in your lungs comes up. it happened to me when i quit a few years ago (except i started up so i guess saying "quit" doesn't count) :/

Makes sense.

[ozzy]

Makes sense.