Jedi do not smoke.

Connor L. wrote: Jedi do not smoke is really a powerful maxim because it is what OTHER people who are not Jedi would say too.

If you were a known Jedi, and you were smoking in public, I could totally see a stranger coming up to you and saying: "Jedi don't smoke... what are you doing?"

Same with me and junk food. "Jedi aren't fat and out of shape, though.. how can you be a Jedi?"

This strikes home with me. I get it.

I wish you all the luck, Den!!! You're strong enough for this

i tend to inverse it
for the record, i smoked cigarettes for the better part of 20 years, and ive not smoked for almost three years now

every once in a while my body remembers the experience in a pleasant way and i have a sort of "craving"
which is inconvenient
and at first it was like a struggle with myself until i re-framed my perception by saying that i now am strong and in control enough to use my freedom of choice to do whats healthy

so it isnt a battle of saying "i really want to do this bad thing that is unhealthy" but rather "wow, i am so glad that ive reached the point where i can choose to do this good thing that is healthy"

and also i have work out and fitness accomplishments that i can look to and say "i want to keep this; keeping this is more important than a momentary (false) pleasure of smoking" (now that i am "old" i cant smoke AND be fit, i have had to choose)

these are the things that have been working for me so far

whatever works for you, GOOD LUCK den

Ultimately, "it is not me" moment when I smoked in restricted area helped. It was a tiny insight, a glance at myself from outside.

Of course, it's the positive thing that keeps me going - it's replacement of smoking, carefully nurtured, that is a stable value. And for me the replacement of smoking is "Jedi way" - concretely, sport & meditation - but as a part of paradigm.

I'm sure that I can stop now not because of self-hypnotic bravery or desperate need, but because I've managed to tie smoking to my principles and to confront smoking with my principles. When it's a matter of principle, I'm really stubborn.

Frontier-1 seized - 3 days.
Frontier-2 ahead - 1 week.

Congrats on hitting day 3! I wish you the best of luck in hitting your next goal!

You know Master Orion smokes, right ?

No he does not , he vapes :laugh:

Silas Mercury wrote: You know Master Orion smokes, right ?

Just keep going , you can do this

No, I did not. And yes, I still think that smoking ain't Jedi way.

But so are many of my weaknesses that I do not work on. Resources are limited, we have to choose direction of development. I do not smoke, but I'm in bad physical shape. That's not Jedi way too, imo. I can do better and that'd be fun!

P.S. If he vapes without nicotine, example is invalid!