Need motivation to quit smoking? Ewan McGregor's like an encyclopedia of anti-smoking motivational tips. OK, not really... but he did quit using the amazing power of imaginary shame.
“I wasn’t someone who could smoke or drink in moderation, and I recognized that those things would kill me. I
started visualizing the doctor telling me that I had cancer from
smoking or that I was extremely ill because of how much I’d been
drinking. What kind of regret would I have if I had to tell my children
or my wife that I was dying because of something I could have done
something about? I didn’t want to be that kind of man.”
Seriously though, if the thought of your own shriveled, blackened lungs struggling for air doesn't persuade you, imagine what it's like telling your wife and children that you deserve a Darwin Award. That would be embarrassing.
Though he pretty much refuses to talk about his family -- wife Eve and children Clara, 13, Esther, 8, and Jamiyan, 7 -- People did manage to get him to give a tip about marriage.
“If you spend too much time ‘working’ on your relationship, I don’t
think it’s a relationship worth being in. With Eve, I’ve never had to
work. We just have it."
Wow. He should be a celebrity life coach or, even better, write a motivational book.
Source | Photo
