The article focuses on cigarette and smoking habit, but not on the affects of planning on the action of quitting smoking (which I am more interested). West’s work suggests a tipping-point approach to anti-smoking campaigns. He says public health workers should capitalize on smokers’ latent desire to quit by putting the idea of quitting in their minds, raising smokers’ motivational tension momentarily to a level that can overcome their resistance to quitting and then lowering the barriers to action—such as helping them to think, “Why not quit?”… How to Stop Smoking: Simply Don’t Plan On It – [Live Science]
