The final step is the execution of the plan.

Once you know why you smoke, it is easier to quit. It's like working on a well defined problem.

If a problem is well defined you are more likely to resolve it. That's exactly what the plan does for you. It defines your behavior. It shows you what is going on in your head when it comes to smoking.

Here is an example.

Let's say, you smoke after lunch, and after dinner and during coffee break.

If you know when you are smoking and why you are smoking, you can tackle one issue at a time and break the habit.

What is happening inside your head is very simple if you think about it.

Your brain is rewired. When you are on a coffee break, it sends a trigger that makes you feel like smoking. You were not born with that habit. At some point your brain got rewired to think that you need to smoke during coffee break. Now you have to unlearn that behavior and rewire your brain to break that association between coffee break and smoking. Once you do that, you have killed your desire to smoke. That is how you quit smoking.