Comments on: smoking http://www.moritherapy.org/article/smoking/ making lives better, making better lives Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:02:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Glenn http://www.moritherapy.org/article/smoking/comment-page-1/#comment-1310 Glenn Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:16:46 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/smoking/#comment-1310 Hmmm, all the things listed keep me from quiting. Basically, I like to smoke. I only have a minimal interest in quitting, so the liking and the pleasure outweighs any interest in quitting. Not to say you are representing this, but people often seem to assume that smokers are undergoing some great battle between a great desire to quit but an inability on their part to do so. But sometimes the battle is not that great 'cause the interest in quitting is pretty small. I briefly thought about writing a section about reasons why I should quit, but they would be largely other people's reasons that everyone assumes that have value for me, which may or may not be the case. If the smoker doesn't feel that great desire to quit, there's obviously something that needs fixing. That may be so, but it's not a high priority for me. I'd rather read a book. Hmmm, all the things listed keep me from quiting. Basically, I like to smoke. I only have a minimal interest in quitting, so the liking and the pleasure outweighs any interest in quitting.

Not to say you are representing this, but people often seem to assume that smokers are undergoing some great battle between a great desire to quit but an inability on their part to do so. But sometimes the battle is not that great ’cause the interest in quitting is pretty small.

I briefly thought about writing a section about reasons why I should quit, but they would be largely other people’s reasons that everyone assumes that have value for me, which may or may not be the case.

If the smoker doesn’t feel that great desire to quit, there’s obviously something that needs fixing. That may be so, but it’s not a high priority for me. I’d rather read a book.

]]> By: Dawn http://www.moritherapy.org/article/smoking/comment-page-1/#comment-1307 Dawn Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:56:23 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/smoking/#comment-1307 Maybe some 'parts' therapy might help you find the part of you that refuses to let you quit and why? There will be a reason, and that reason may well be outmoded now, and that part of you is stuck in that time warp whilst the rest of you has moved on? Maybe some ‘parts’ therapy might help you find the part of you that refuses to let you quit and why? There will be a reason, and that reason may well be outmoded now, and that part of you is stuck in that time warp whilst the rest of you has moved on?

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