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Balancing your lifestyle is a dynamic process, comprised of skills, intuition and art. The goal is to find moderation within each area of your life and balance between the different areas of your life. Moderation, by definition, is the avoidance of extremes and excesses - staying within reasonable limits. It deals with the questions of how much and how often.

Balance involves these same questions, but addresses how too much or too little in one area of your life can have a negative or positive impact on other aspects of your life. Balance doesn't mean that every life arena is given equal time and attention; but rather that the whole of your life gives you a sense of satisfaction and that each area of your life is given an appropriate level of attention according to present need and priorities.

Create a new smoke-free life
The real Stop Smoking Challenge is to find your balance between work and play, between self-deprivation and self-indulgence and between self-denial and self-gratification. Ideally, you will want to find a satisfying balance between work and relationships, between time for others and time for yourself, between planning to do things and really doing them, between saving the world (your contribution to society) and saving yourself (a personal spiritual quest), between your needs and wants and between schedules and spontaneity. The fear of many smokers is that they will constantly miss smoking when they quit. The challenge in quitting is to create your new smoke-free life so that you don't miss the smoking because there are so many other great things happening. Joyful, meaningful living can be attained and our Stop Smoking Challenge is designed to help you get on your way with the positive support from our
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