Are your sure your anecdote confirms this?
The higher cognitive function that leads you to read books about quitting could be exactly the mechanism the GP describes.
If books can help you quit, less bookish people will quit less, all else equal.
The higher cognitive function that leads you to read books about quitting could be exactly the mechanism the GP describes.
If books can help you quit, less bookish people will quit less, all else equal.
FWIW, I also credit that book with me finally quitting the habit.
I was expecting a mix of "here's why it's bad" and "here's the good stuff, and at which milestone dates you'll notice them" maybe.
The stuff I already knew and believed in really strongly.. for 20 minutes until the third 'last' cigarette of the month.
If anyone else is stuck in a holding pattern of quitting it's worth giving it a shot. Promise no affiliation haha, go see if your local bookshop or charity shop has a used copy for 20p (the pages will be a deep yellow, of course)
Is it really just that the Easy Way is a self-referential thing and the Way is itself to think about the Way a lot and in doing so convince yourself or your subconscious that you’ve reached some sort of solution despite having not? Or was there some set of concrete messages I might just have missed?
Is the act of reading the book the thing itself?