Smoking
I passed this poster today, and was reminded that it’s now seven years since both my parents and my sister gave up smoking.
Well done to you all - I’m so proud of you!
This blog’s morphed into being all about fitness. But getting fit is just an exercise in changing what you do with your body and your time. If you’ve arrived here looking for help on giving up smoking, giving up drinking, or whatever, my advice is to focus on what you want to become, not what you want to stop. With the destination in mind, the journey seems a whole lot more worth while!
So start something with an end in mind . . . to ride to work every day for a year . . . swim a mile . . . run a half (or even, cripes, a full) marathon.
You’ll be amazed what you can achieve.
Nicely put. I have a friend who quit smoking after multiple tries. He said the reason it stuck was because he starting thinking of himself as a non-smoker rather than an ex-smoker.
Does this mean I need to start thinking of myself as a runner? Am I going to be doing tri’s with you and zappoman before I’m done…
Phil
This is actually running is a progressive illness:
1 “I’m jogging, but it’s just to shed a few pounds”
2 “I’m a Jogger - it helps me relax at the end/start of [every] day”
3 “I’m running fairly regularly now. Let me tell you about my splits on last month’s 10k”
4 “I’m a Runner. My PB for this weekend’s course[s] is within reach”
5 “Work seems to be getting in the way of my training schedule . . . ”
6 (Really extreme case) “I’m gonna nail ZappoMan in the Tri this year”