Smoking

It seems the more I quit, the less the withdrawal bothers me. The last time I quit, I used Nicorette to handle the cravings - there was quite an ad blitz for the stuff last winter/spring and a friend of mine had successfully quit using it, so I gave it a shot. It worked as well as cold-turkey. I can't say if it's any better. I'm going cold turkey right now and I'm not running after my wife with knives or even losing my temper that much. Ironically, the fact that I don't find quitting that difficult is one of the things that leads me back to smoking. "Well, I'll just quit again. No problem!" The problem is deciding to quit, not the actual quitting.

Tomorrow will be the true test. Work always provides unique stresses, and I have smoking friends there. The slippery-slope back to addiction always starts at work. One after lunch leads to one at every break leads to me buying a pack.

¶ 11:05 PM