EP60: Starting Young and Quitting Young - Amy Jo Honey
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When and why did Amy start smoking as a teen?
When did you start realizing that you wanted to quit smoking? Amy knew it was time to move on at just 21 years old, but by then she'd already been a smoker for seven years. With her daughter as her main source of inspiration, Amy worked on shifting her identity, anchoring into her values, and laughing off the tension with humor to get through to the other side of the habit. Enjoy her story here on the You Can Quit Smoking podcast. Hey everyone, welcome back. I'm here today with Amy Cho Honey. Thank you for being here so much, Amy Cho. Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I am a corporate sales trainer and I do back of the room sales for like large seminar companies. Think like Publish a Book and Grow Rich was one I toured with forever and things like that. Yeah, so. Personal growth. It's all personal growth at the end of the day. So that's kind of really important to me. It's a very key element of my life. Through that and through sales, I actually became a certified behavior profiler. I do sales training, not based on like the typical kind of sales that people do. It's more based on the natural understanding of how humans make decisions to buy. Interesting. And how we change our habits. At the end of the day, when we're trying to think of a big thing, what I really am is I'm really a person that helps people make clarity decisions and change habits.
Well, we all need that. We all need some renewal and growth. So I appreciate that. So talk to us about smoking. What's your story with smoking? I grew up in the 80s.
I just turned 57 last week. Happy birthday. Thank you. And I started smoking when I was like 13. And back then my mom smoked while she's like, don't do it. And my dad hated it, but my mom still smoked in cars. We smoked on planes back then. I was 13. I wasn't yet in high school, but it was really funny because we're all trying to be cool. And this girl who I thought was mega cool, like I looked up to this girl. I thought she was so cool and she was a smoker. And I was like, oh yeah, I smoke. And I'd never smoked before. And so she was like, oh, really? Hands me a cigarette. And I took this inhale on the cigarette and I wanted to cough so bad. And I did not. I forced myself not to cough. I blew that smoke out and I was cool.
And I smoked from then on. Well, then when I got into high school a year later and my mom smoked, so it was easy. I could smoke at home. Like I could do it in my bedroom and like they didn't notice that there was smoke. an extra smoke happening because I would just steal my mom's cigarettes too, you know? And so when I got to be 14 and I was in high school, we actually had a smoking area in high school. So it was totally normal for kids to go in between classes and have a cigarette. Wow. It was allowed. Yeah. Just normal. Where we weren't supposed to smoke was the bathroom, but we did that.
Gotta find some way to rebel when it's allowed.
Yeah, right?
What kind of relationship did you develop with smoking then, even as a young person? Like when you were going, taking those breaks, did it feel like a stress relief? Was it a way to bond with friends?
Yeah, I loved it. It was a connection. It made you feel cool. It looked cool. All the people in the movies were doing it. A lot of people that I looked up to did it. So yeah, it felt cool. I loved the relationship of it. I didn't ever feel dragged on by it at all until I did. Yeah. And then that's when I quit, right?
How did Amy’s early smoking habit develop through high school and family influence?
You know, and I smoked for seven years. I quit when I was 21. So what changed then where you were thinking you wanted to quit? I was working as a cocktail waitress in bars and I was just watching bad habits kind of all around me, like the alcohol and the stuff. And I didn't like it. I was never really like a big drinker. I was never really big on it. And I actually quit drinking alcohol first. I wasn't an alcoholic or anything, but I had an experience. Can I get really raw and honest on here? Okay.
Yes.
okay so trigger warning for anybody this is i'm going to be talking about assault and so if that is sensitive to you please skip this part and go to the next but take care of your mental health first so i thought i had quit drinking because i thought i was seeing the bad habits in the bars and was like i don't want that i was seeing the same people come in and grin and being drunks and stuff i thought i didn't want that but the truth is i was assaulted
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Chapters
4 chapters
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When and why did Amy start smoking as a teen?
0:00–2:55
2
How did Amy’s early smoking habit develop through high school and family influence?
2:55–8:30
3
What pivotal events made Amy decide to quit drinking and later smoking?
8:30–15:33
4
How did Amy prepare to quit smoking and choose her quit date?
15:33–21:43
Speakers
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