Termyn8or
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I really do wonder who the first brainiac was to pick up a leaf and burn it to inhale the fumes.
If I quit smoking, I won't drink as much, and I have done some math.
I spend over sixty dollars a week on cigarettes and another at least seventy five in other things. Beer is over seventy dollars a week. Maybe I don't drink it all, but I buy it.
If you add those figures up that is more than some people make. This is ridiculous.
I know smoking is not good for me, but I don't think it is as bad as they say. People have been doing it for too long and I just don't buy it, but I will not say it is good for you. I am sure it isn't.
Health issues aside, the money is getting to be significant. The price of smoke(s) has gone through the roof and I am to the point where I am thinking I could do something else with that money. What's more I lost a fifty dollar lighter today. But that doesn't mean shit because I spend over ten grand a year on cigarettes and intoxicants.
In my mind the scales are tipping, and if any of you know what a Schmitt trigger is, my mind has that feature. In electronics the Schmitt trigger tends to stay in the same state, a physicist would define it as hysteresis.
If I make the big decision, all three are out. If I am to quit smoking I am quitting smoking period. And that means no more beer because I can't envision drinking a beer without smoking. I knew someone who did quit smoking but not drinking and my jaw was pretty much on the floor.
Thing is, the result would be me living a clean life. I know how to eat and I have no problems that require medication of any kind. I could really have the clean life. But that is not it. I only live on this Earth once, and if I can't have what I want I might as well be dead or in jail. But the money is getting to the point where it is a very significant cost. Ten grand a year, that's more than most people's house taxes, hell it's more than some total mortgage payments !
I could get two Hummers with that money. This truly is ridiculous. I guess I like to leave myself wide open here, I can already visualize vultures circling. But facts are facts, that is a ridiculous amount of money to spend, it just took until now for me to care. Like I said I don't care about the health aspect, me and the medical community do not agree. But money is a bit more tangible.
I could cut down on everything, ration myself but I think that would become a tease. The only way is cold turkey. That really is the only way. Anyone who tells you they have a cure for an addiction is lying. My help would be having good water, not tap water, nuts, probably Planter's mixed nuts. Some cheese and green pepper in the fridge. Things like that. Good food, possibly some tea made out of the good water, if sweeetened at at all, with honey.
Yes, a support system in a way. See the thing is that even if I make the decision to try, that is not beating the addiction. Beating the addiction is not when you CAN say no, it is when you WANT TO say no. I CAN say no at any time. What I want is to WANT TO say no.
I do have a few attributes going for me. I was at a party and some coke was offered up, I declined. The jaws were all over the floor. But that's not the point, the point is that it did not bother me a bit watching them do it. Hell no I didn't leave, there was no reason to. They loved me, there was more for them.
If I decide to quit everything I should not have a problem with others doing it. Because once this scale tips folks, I will do it, and it is getting close. I know it will be hard at first, but later I might feel like a twenty year old again. And that is something else for me to consider.
Just some thoughts on a lazy Sunday night.
T
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