1-Minute Fitness Tips

Smoking and other Dangerous Habits

You don’t really still smoke cigarettes do you? Are you kidding me? How… 1989.

Look, it’s not cool, it’s not hip, and it’s not fashionable. It’s about as fashionable as having a live skunk on your shoulder, trailing his perfumed magnificence to all your former friends and innocent bystanders.

You should just get yourself a nice lump of radioactive plutonium. That way you can get all the diseases you could ever imagine, and the rest of us don’t have to breathe the smoke.

Seriously, I know that if you’re here, you probably don’t smoke. And that’s great. You’re just listening to this to humor me. It’s put me in RANT mode, and you just want to know what I’m going to say next!

But I do have an assignment for you today. First of all, I want you to examine your life and pick out the one habit that’s increasing your risk factors for serious disease. Tobacco, alcohol, prescription drugs, artificial sweeteners, twinkies, or maybe it’s stress.

Resolve to eliminate the behavior. Make a plan to remove it from your life. Seek help to remove this behavior.

Ok, maybe you don’t have one. I’d say to look harder, but in the absence of a bad habit, your assignment today is to help a loved one remove a dangerous habit. Be careful how you approach this. Remember to be supportive and stick to the facts.

Find that behavior in yourself or a loved one and work to get rid of it right now!

Hey, by the way, if you or your loved one needs help quitting smoking visit my friend Lela Bryan at Nicotine Solutions