Liz Marr smoked off-and-on throughout her 20s and picked it up again in her early 30s. "I didn't smoke all the time," she says. "Usually, only while socializing with other smokers."
But then she fell in love with mountain-biking and cross-country skiing. After all, Liz lives near Boulder, Colorado, and could literally walk out her door to go mountain-biking. "Trust me," she says, "you can't smoke and ride a bike up a mountain!"
Rather than stop cold turkey ("That all-or-nothing mind-set made me want to smoke more," she says), Liz gradually tapered off by avoiding the situations that made her want to smoke. "For a while, I actually stopped hanging out with friends who smoked," she says. Liz built activities into her life where smoking wouldn't fit: exercising, going to smoke-free restaurants, hanging out with her son. "Within a year I naturally drifted into a nonsmoking lifestyle
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