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Your nose can help you form new habits
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Breathe in the glorious smell of success.

I no longer go to a gym, and without the scent cue of metal and sweat, I found it difficult to. I needed a new cue for the habit. Now, I apply Arm and Hammer Fresh before my home workouts, because my brain now associates that smell with swinging a kettlebell around in the yard. By the end of the workout, that deodorant’s scent is long gone, but lasting freshness isn’t what I use it for.

, a neurological structure that helps relay signals throughout the frontal cortex of the brain. When you smell something, however, that input skips the frontal cortex entirely. A separate structure called the olfactory bulb takes everything you smell straight to a region of the brain’s limbic system called the, which straddles the hippocampus and amygdala.

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