Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

QUIT SMOKING BY... SMOKING MORE?

17 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A clinician describes a counterintuitive smoking-cessation method: instruct patients to continue smoking but attend closely to the embodied sensations. By paying attention to the taste and felt experience, patients often become disenchanted with cigarettes, producing behavior change driven by bodily experience rather than cognitive reasoning. The speaker emphasizes that the feeling body often overrides the thinking brain in driving habit change.

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My patients that want to quit smoking. I tell them to smoke, and I tell them to pay attention as they smoke. And they start to see pretty clearly that cigarettes don't taste very good. And so that's the first step in helping them step out of this habit loops. Because they become disenchanted with the smoking, not because they tell themselves they should quit smoking or know that smoking is bad for them. That's all up in their head. This is the embodied experience that drives all behavior change. I think of it as, you know, our feeling body is much stronger than our thinking brain.