EP51: Unlocking Your Reason to Quit Smoking - James L. Richardson
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Is the financial cost of smoking holding you back from opportunities? James Grupp surrounded by smoke, so it was a very normalized part of his life. But after three unsuccessful attempts to quit, he found himself in a situation where he was shorted funds by the exact amount he spent on smoking. That realization provided the motivation he needed to quit in a lasting way. Through the strategies that helped him through the adjustment on this week's episode of You Can't Quit Smoking. Hey everyone, welcome back. I'm here today with James. James, tell us a little bit about yourself.
My name is James L. Richardson. I'm a full-time author. I write a bunch of stories in something called the Public Domain Superheroes Universe. It's um project that started last year. I published a book a month. I come from a background doing a bunch of different things. I was a musician in the nineties, I was a telephone repair guy in the two thousands. I grew up in a big city in Canada and now I live in a small town in Canada. But I've traveled, I've lived in Dubai, I've lived in the States, I've been all over the place. And I when I ran across your podcast and you were asking about people who had uh quit smoking and how they'd done it, I thought, wow, I I love talking about this because I'm always happy to have help people that wanna quit smoking because it's one of those things, it's really tough habit to kick.
I struggled with it myself and I have a couple of little tips and little tricks that I used. Yeah, if you're out there and that's what's going on for you, I'm with you. I wish you all the best and I hope you can just stick with it 'cause it's a great thing to do.
How did James’s childhood environment shape his early views on smoking?
Get rid of that habit.
Oh yeah, big time. And sounds like you have a lot to share, a lot of experience and I'm looking forward to seeing what tips you have because we all find our own way with it. So what's your story with smoking?
I'm fifty-six years old. I was born late sixties, early seventies. Growing up, my parents both smoked. So basically I was a smoker from the day I came home from the hospital. My parents smoked through till I was in the school. During school in the mid-70s, there was a big push to uh get people to quit smoking, and I became a very rabid anti-smoker as a preteen and a and a tween, which uh to my parents' chagrin, they didn't like that very much. But I was very rabid anti-smoker. But then in my teens, and thanks to peer pressure and teenage stupidity, I started smoking at fifteen and smoked for For the next decade and a half to the point where I was smoking a pack and a half a day, and I was a rabid smoker.
I was I went the exact opposite way, and I was adamant that I had the right to do it. I was adamant that I would do it because I loved it, and that's who I became for a very long time. Looking back on it, I'm not sure when that change happened, but it's one of those things that if I could go back in time, that's something I would definitely make the effort to make myself not do because it's one of the dumbest things I ever did in my life was to start smoking. When I smoked in my teens in high school, it was because we were cool if we smoked. We went out to the smoking area, the smok the cool kids all smoked. It was just kind of part of the culture. From there into my twenties when I was a musician, I traveled extensively and every bar that we played in was full of smoke.
I mean, it was just how things were in the late eighties and and into the nineties. Everywhere you went, people smoked. And to be fair, I couldn't have been the singer I was for 10 years in bars like that if I hadn't been smoking, because I wouldn't have been able to manage. It would have just been too hard on my uh breathing to deal with if I wasn't so used to the smoke from my own use that it didn't bother me that the room was full of smoke. I worked with a couple of non-smoking singers over the years. They would struggle, they would have difficulty in some of the bars. We played in because they would be so full of smoke. And these, you know, we're trying to use our lungs and our throats and our vocal cords to produce nice, clean, clear music.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:21
2
How did James’s childhood environment shape his early views on smoking?
1:21–19:59
3
What triggered James to finally quit smoking after multiple attempts?
19:59–20:30
4
What role did financial motivation play in James’s decision to quit?
20:30–23:59
5
Which strategies did James use to manage the physical withdrawal and cravings?
23:59–25:11
6
How did James restructure his daily habits and environment to avoid triggers?
25:11–32:20
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from You Can Quit Smoking
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EP57: Creating a System to Quit Smoking and Break Generational Patterns- Regina Louise
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