So I have this "friend" who has 100+ days to his quit, and he's like sick and tired of fighting the craves. He's too much of a wimp to just go to the store and buy a pack of cigarettes and be done with it; oh no, he has to be passive-agressive about it and put himself into a situation where he can safely and anonymously bum one. (What a pathetic loser my "friend" is.) In spite of everything he has read on this site, he thinks he can do "one or two" and still preserve his quit. Idiot.
So he goes trolling for smokes the way some people troll for sex. Dignity not required. But then he gets this huge epiphany -- yeah, even though Lent is already started. (Monica, honey, think of it as a pre-Seder deal).
This guy has been exercising and working out, and while it's no huge deal, he can suddenly run a half-mile, and he expects that distance to increase every single day. His lungs are clear, and he's like, "Wait a minute. If I smoke, where is that smoke going??"
Duh!! Whatever he smokes is going into his clean lungs and STAYING there! There's no exit from the lungs, and smoke is solid matter.
My "friend" about got down on his knees and thanked God for this insight, which came out of nowhere at a time he needed it most.
The craves never really go away, but do we really, seriously, want to allow them to fill our lungs with tar again? EWWWWWWW. Even if we glibly think our quit can survive a smoke or two now and then -- and the evidence against it is staggering -- there is still the matter of where that "occasional" smoke goes to live forever. Our lungs have no exits.
Thanks. I needed to articulate this for myself. (Oh yeah; and for my "friend," too.)
peteg
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 10/30/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 117
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 5,892
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $643.5
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 21 [B]Hrs:[/B] 12 [B]Mins:[/B] 28 [B]Seconds:[/B] 43
