Q. I'm following your plan to quit smoking. I completed my 30-minute walk today and smoked one pack. I work out with a personal trainer three times a week. Does this take the place of my walk on those days?
A. Personal trainers can be great: for motivation, for information, for busting their biceps out of shirtsleeves. But one thing they can't replace is walking 30 minutes a day. We wish that it could. In the quit-smoking plan, it's not the exercise itself that's effective, but rather the daily discipline or daily feeling of well-being that you get from being committed to logging 30 minutes every day. We know that since you're in an exercise plan, you'll have no problem fitting in an extra half-hour of walking—even if it means walking 15 minutes before and after your training session.
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