Smoke Breaker [under test]
Exercise of the Week: Change How You Enlighten
Smoking is pyrotechnics: cigarette is a fuse, your lungs – a bomb of pleasure and worry. This week's objective is to change how you set yourself on fire. Get a new lighter, a lighter you wouldn’t intuitively use. For example, if you are into classy metal lighters, get a BIC with a NASCAR theme. If you like a minimalist, slick, urban look, get something gaudy or camouflaged. Show some behavioral plasticity, pick the wrong color of plastic – if you don’t like yellow, get yellow; if you like white, get black. Bottom-line: undermine the seamless mindlessness of your lighting choices. Lay a charge of change. Startle the smoking zombie into an awakening. Change how you enlighten this smoking habit of yours. [P. Somov/M. Somova, copyright 2010; Excerpt from “Smoke-Free Smoke Break” (New Harbinger, 2011)]
Exercise of the Week: Change Hand to Change Mind
Awaken your smoking mind. Start your smoking day from the wrong side of the bed, so to say: switch your hand. If you always smoke with your right hand, smoke today with your left to change the process. If you always smoke with your left hand, make it the right smoking hand even if it feels wrong. Try to remember to smoke with your non-smoking hand all day today. [P. Somov/M. Somova, copyright 2010; Excerpt from “Smoke-Free Smoke Break” (New Harbinger, 2011)]