I'm gonna hang my hat on the "no longer a smoker" peg...just give me more
amunition to keep being an ex smoker!

One of the bullets they gave us at the last stop-smoking clinic I attended
(that's the one that worked, by the way) was this. Collect a bunch of buts
from an ashtray. Get a Mason jar about half full. Then fill it halfway
with water, so they're all good & soggy and put the lid on. Anytime you
want a cig, open the lid and take a whif.

Smoking is the damndest addiction. I haven't had a cigarette since New
Year's Day 1986. Not even one. I was smoking 2.5 packs of Marlboro
Menthols per day then, and just quit, cold turkey, after watching my
father-in-law waste away to 85 pounds before dying of lung cancer.

I despise smoking, and am appalled to say that most smokers are slobs. No
one does more damage to our property, I can't stand what smokers do to our
hotel, and I can't stand the way I stink when I get home from a bar full of
smokers.

Yet -- despite all that -- sometimes I REALLY want a smoke. Still.

Good job quitting, Jay, you'll never regret it, but remember -- as with any
true addiction, you never really get over it, mentally. Stay on guard, and
don't ever, EVER even have one again.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"