Giving Up Smoking - Whats Your Motivation
Motivation is considered by many experts to be the single most important predictor of successful smoking cessation, but motivation also consists of many factors and, like willpower, people exercise it in different ways and for different reasons.
For example, information about the health dangers of smoking can add to a person’s motivation to give it up, as can information about how to actually quit, and the feasibility of being able to do it without trauma. You may get motivation by talking to a friend who has been successful in giving up smoking, reading a book or a magazine article or listening to a radio chat show. It is common for the desire to quit to smoking to increase dramatically if a close friend or relative dies from a smoking related illness.
At another level, people get motivated when they buy a where smoking is restricted, when sick, when in love with a non-smoking person, when becoming pregnant and so on - in other words whenever they perceive they have good reason or motive. It is the combination of many motivating factors including the motive to carry on smoking that determines the chances of success. HowIStopSmoking.com covers a wide range of those factors, all of which affect actually giving up the habit.
