Successful quitters were typically highly dissatisfied with themselves for smoking
- Do you feel you're letting yourself and others down by smoking?
- Do you feel you are a weak character for smoking?
- Do you despair at your lack of self-control as a smoker?
- Do you feel people look down on you as a smoker?
- Do you hate what smoking does to your body?
- Do you hate the way smoking makes you smell?
- Do you think smoking makes you look unattractive?

Successful quitters saw themselves as being over-dependent on smoking
- Do you dread running out of cigarettes?
- Does smoking limit where you go and what you do?
- Do you hate being dictated to by smoking?
- Do you long to be free of the tyranny of smoking?

Successful quitters believed they were more negatively affected by their habit than most smokers
- Do you have a smoker's cough?
- Do you tire easily?
- Do you avoid exercise?
- Do you worry that smoking will kill you?
- Do you smoke when ill?
- Do you have a heart or lung condition?
- Do you have an illness or condition that is made worse by smoking?
- Do you get lots of chest or throat infections or colds?

Successful quitters are more flexible
- Are you prepared to change old habits?
- Would you make changes to your social life?
- Would you choose a restaurant specifically because it was non-smoking?
- Would you be prepared avoid smoking environments for a time?
- Would you give up smoking triggers such as tea or coffee or alcohol if necessary?
- Would you be willing to take up a new hobby or pastime?

Successful quitters are more strongly determined to quit
- Do you believe its not enough to just 'try' to quit?
- Have you decided you won't have a cigarette even if you badly want one?
- Have you decided you will NEVER smoke again?
- HAVE YOU DECIDED TO BECOME A NON-SMOKER - WHATEVER IT TAKES?

Successful quitters make more efforts to minimise the obstaces to quitting
- Would you make changes to your lifestyle?
- Would you avoid the pub for a while if necessary?
- Would you try to mix only with non-smokers for a while?
- Would you plan the best time to quit?
- Would you read self-help books on quitting?
- Would you learn techniques to minimise stress?

Successful quitters are more prepared to tolerate discomfort
- Do you tell yourself it will be hard for a while but it WILL pass?
- Have you decided that becoming a non-smoker is worth the relatively short period of discomfort?
- Do have plans for dealing with withdrawal symptoms?
- HAVE YOU DECIDED TO BECOME A NON-SMOKER - WHATEVER IT TAKES?

Successful quitters are less bothered by withdrawal symptoms
- Instead of dwelling on withdrawal symptoms will you just make light of them?
- Will you avoid seeking sympathy from others for your 'suffering'?
- If/when you have symptoms, will you just tell yourself 'it will pass'?