Those of my clients who want to quit smoking are constantly searching for: where and how to find motivation, where to get the strength so as not to return to business as usual in this harmful habit. “Quitting smoking is easy! I've done this many times already. Mark Twain “In the article I will show 2 types of motivation on the way to quit smoking and propose at the end to discuss which one is more psychological. A person looking for a way to quit smoking resembles a traveler in a sandstorm who tries to stay on his feet, but every time he thinks that he has taken a step forward, the sand carries him back, leaving only a feeling of futile efforts and disappointment. How to quit smoking easier: 2 cases of opposite motivation Below I will give 2 cases of opposite motivation when both people quit smoking, collective images of smokers, permission for publication has been received. CASE 1 How to quit smoking with envy: positive motivation. In this story, my client, a young man, together with his friend, drank alcohol and smoked for many years. Then his friend got married and, at the request of his wife, took a cure for alcoholism and at the same time quit smoking. A year later, he bought himself a premium car and built a large house and a bathhouse on a plot in the village. He began to have money. My client, with whom we worked in script therapy with a self-sacrifice scenario, recalled that when he learned about such changes in the life of a friend, he went to him and found out the contacts of a narcologist. He also wanted similar results of liberation from an addiction , who was with him for more than 20 years. Sometimes only horror and fear of death can force a person to get rid of an addiction. Fear is the best motivator here. CASE 2. How to quit smoking with fear: negative motivation. But another motivation for getting rid of a bad habit is negative. A 32-year-old woman who had been smoking for more than 11 years had quit several times, but without success. According to her, she lacked willpower. She turned to me for scenario therapy for co-dependent relationships; she started smoking in this marriage with an addicted gambling husband, this is how she coped with stress. She had a friend who was the same age at work with whom they often met in the working smoking room. After a cold, her friend was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer with metastases to the lungs, over the next four months she burned out from oncology. My client was very impressed by this case and almost immediately quit smoking and decided to leave her addicted husband. Conclusion: As you can see, both positive and negative motivation to smoke worked, in both cases it was external. However, without the therapy that these two people underwent, it is unlikely that they would have been able to keep themselves from relapse. Which motivation in getting rid of bad habits affects you more? Negative Positive Both motivations I just can’t quit smoking