Specific strategy -- Identify the foods that are responsible for my unwanted body weight; eliminate those foods entirely on a permanent basis to establish a lifelong diet capable of allowing me to maintain my ideal weight for decades.

2. Establish optimal physical fitness training routine.

Specific strategy -- Establish a consistency to my fitness workouts that will enable me to meet my goal; permanently eliminate those barriers to consistency that have sabotaged those efforts previously.

3. Stop smoking.

End the repetitive cycle of smoking cessation followed by relapse and subsequent attempts focusing on the number of cigarettes smoked per day or per month. Stop making excuses for "comfort" and habitual smoking by never allowing smoking to be enjoyable ever again. Allow only the (smoking) equivalent of a maintenance dose of nicotine when absolutely necessary and only under circumstances...

Gradually reduce the number of those maintenance doses to zero.
Measurement of Success

1. Lose weight through improved diet.

Short-term Success -- No cheating at all in 4 weeks.

Long-term Success -- 10 lb weight loss in 4 weeks and steady subsequent weight loss.

2. Establish optimal physical fitness training routine.

Short-term Success -- No missed workouts at all in 4 weeks.

Long-term Success -- Lifestyle of no missed workouts and fitting my social life around my workouts instead of vice-versa.

3. Stop smoking.

Short-term Success -- Immediate complete elimination of "comfort" and habitual smoking.

Long-term Success -- Permanent complete elimination of "comfort" and habitual smoking and no smoking relapses other than increasing the maintenance doses as described if necessary.