Will you support me by..

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

It's from now. Rather than imposing my gloating on already-admitted failures, it would be far more entertaining to do so when everyone's aware of the stakes.

[Gibsie]

Fair enough old boy. We'll have to see if we can recorrupt you in Oxford...

[Winston]

Maybe these quitting threads aren't such a good idea anyway. I mean going public with one's resolution was supposed to provide an extra incentive; now I just feel it adds to the pressure - just like it did the last time I tried it.

I make no secret of it, I haven't managed to start yet. Or quit. Haven't started quitting yet. Things went awry for me on New Year's Eve, 2-3 hours before midnight, and I had to get some cigarettes, which I still haven't finished with.

What a mess.

[Monk]

What?

Get him, Lazarus!

[Monk]

Ah well, don't feel sad Winston (but don't quit quitting either).

[Winston]

Yes, I probably will attempt it very soon (as in, in a matter of days), but I have to be able to bring everything into it, which I just can't do right this afternoon.

[JohnT]

Dude, quitting is an exercise of the heart, not of the will. You have to want to quit, desire it as you would a woman, not be at war with yourself doing something because "well, people say I should"!

You don't want to quit.

It's so obvious, it comes through in every post. This is something you're doing because you think you "have to", not because you "want to" or even "need to". You set a date that is not important other than the fact that a lot of other people make half-assed promises on that date as well. You ask other people to make resolutions, ostensibly to "help" you along your recovery but (and I know this because I was there too) really to give you an excuse when you backslid - "They couldn't do it, so why should I?" You count down the number of cigarettes you have (and something tells me that if you did quit, you would be counting up from your last cigarette). You consider a New Years party enough of an "unforseen circumstance" to break a newly made resolution, and you currently have no plans to take up the resolution though it literally can be accomplished at any time you desire - right now, even.

So... if you don't want to quit... don't. Some people are smokers, some aren't. Some can quit, some can't. Why subject yourself to a lifetime of misery to make other people happy? We only live once on this planet - if it makes your 70-odd years of existence happier to smoke, then smoke.

I mean, ****, when I quit it was because I wanted to... I was sick of the coughing, the phlegm, the constantly heavy feeling I had in my chest. But before that, I didn't bother torturing myself by beating myself over the head with a philosophy that I didn't ascribe to!

Btw, did you happen to see my Public Service Announcement about this very same subject?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Winston? I hereby accuse you of being too spineless to throw those fags in the bin.

Now prove me wrong, beeyatch.

[Winston]

Let's just forget about it then. I'll post an announcement once I've managed to go for 2 months without smoking. Or get my brother-in-law to alert you to the fact that I've choked myself to death early one morning.

Though you do make some good points, JohnT - very good ones in fact - you're not right about every observation you make. For one thing, the idea behind this thread was not to support me, but to provide joint support for everybody who wanted to stop or start doing something that'd been bugging them for a while. I thought that part was fairly obvious.

And I maintain that my being invited to a party next door 3 hours before midnight was totally unforeseen. I'd taken a bath, was ready to place my first nicotine patch, and had 1 (one) cigarette left to smoke before quitting.

Now it's all down the drain. I wish I was just a careless zebra grazing on the savanna - or a pretty tropical fish of some sort.

Oh damn. Now I'm hungry too!

[Spiffor]

So far, so good for me. Bit just a little when I didn't pay attention, and stopped immediately.

I might follow Che's advice and carry a nailclipper with me.

[Winston]

Glad to hear it Spiffor!

As long as you don't start chewing on any electrical chords as a substitute.

[Spiffor]

I prefer eating my flesh. There is more flesh to eat than nails anyway

[Axxaer]

Originally posted by Spiffor
I prefer eating my flesh. There is more flesh to eat than nails anyway