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Guess what I have done, I have given up smoking. Well I haven’t had a cigarette for ages (two weeks and counting) and yes I have become one of those people who can’t stand the smell of cigarette smoke.

How did I do it. I just did it. It is really weird. I had been talking about it, giving it up for a day, two days. I had been on the NHS help line but always went back to smoking, saying “I will stop after this one”. Of course I didn’t.

Here am I, a coach whose niche is procrastination and actually procrastinating about giving up smoking. I had every excuse in the book for not giving up smoking:

• My husband is a smoker and had cigarettes all the time
• I was stressed out (how can a stick of tobacco make stress go away?)
• I was addicted to nicotine (that could be a point - it is addiction and I hate addiction)
• It helped me think (how on earth did that happen, all I really needed was time to think, it works with a cuppa actually)
• I enjoyed it (I didn’t really, I was fooling myself)
• I could give it up any time I just hadn’t chose to at that moment

What I was actually doing was putting off until tomorrow what I could do today. One day my 7 year grandson turned around and nana, you are always talking about giving up smoking (as I went out to the garden for a cigarette). I felt so small, I cringed. I didn’t say I wasn’t going to have any more cigarettes. I just haven’t any since then. That’s all it took, some wise words for a 7 year old!

I also remember something my coach, Marion Ryan said to me. She was talking about my procrastination tips one of which was ‘check the reality’ and suggested that she would be telling people about the times she had given up smoking. She said she spent days/weeks or months telling herself she would do it when she was feeling stronger/poorer/iller etc but when she eventually did give it up, always wondered why she’d been making such a big deal.

That’s exactly how I feel. Why did I make it such a big deal of it I stopped making it a big deal in my life. Once I did that, it wasn’t important any more.

Would you like to know how life coaching could help you? At denisevogel-lifecoach.com you will find answers to the questions you may be asking yourself. There are some tools on my website to start you on your way and more of this kind of article.

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Denise Vogel is a personal life coach based in Essex who has set her sights in helping people to turn their lives around.

Tags: excuse for smoking, giving up smoking, how to give up smoking, procrastination

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