How Not To Quit Smoking – The Concept Of The ‘imaginary Motivation’
I hate smoking, so why do I still smoke?
Now it occurs to me that I generally motivate myself to quit in the following manner:
(i) Make a demand to myself to quit.
(ii) Fail to quit.
(iii) Punish myself for continuing to smoke by nagging myself about it (I call it worry).
(iv) Make an offer to myself I will stop the nagging, but only as a reward for quitting smoking.
(v) Fail to quit again.
(vi) Go back to Step (i) and repeat.
Its been an unconscious process up until recently, because Ive been nagging myself for so long that its become second nature to me. My operative motivation, then, for quitting smoking is to relieve myself from the nagging that I impose upon myself. Its actually designed to work like this:
1. Punish myself for continuing to smoke by nagging myself about it.
2. Make an offer to stop the nagging as a reward for quitting smoking.
3. Quit smoking in order to collect the reward.
4. Bestow the reward (stop nagging at myself).
But hey, since Im offering myself only the cessation of...
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