What Are Your New Years Resolutions?

Well it is 45mins away and i am awake and i just got back from an hour walk with the dog. Now in a bath, things are going well.

 

How's quitting going? Have you ever heard of a book called "Alan Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking"?

 

Probably to avoid bullshit people and bullshit things.

Am I doing a good job on it? Not really so far.

 

I read that and thought it was written by this person, the camp chat show host in England.


Naturally, I thought W.T.F....

 

It's good, I didn't smoke that much to begin with. My biggest trigger for smoking is alcohol so I had to cut out alcohol, I'm not an alcoholic or anything but I do enjoy drinking socially so that has been more of a struggle than quitting cigarettes. hopefully I can return to it one day without being tempted to smoke.

I'll check out the book, I wonder if he addresses the need for smoking when drinking, I've been struggling with it for a decade.

 

i never tell people my goals, because doing so has a history of jinxing them.
the whole resolutions thing doesn't make sense to me anyway.
you want to change something, you just go about doing so.
maybe its a struggle and maybe its not, but either way,
announcing it, even to yourself, only makes it more of one.

 

He does. He explains why we get addicted to cigarettes and why we associate them with different things (stress, food, alcohol).

Do you smoke a lot when you drink? I always wished I could be one of those casual smokers - someone who had a cigarette or two if I was drinking, or someone who could go weeks without smoking and then have one and enjoy it. But no, I couldn't I was either a full blown smoker (a pack a day) or not a smoker at all.

It will be three years since my last cigarette this March. I quit cold turkey. I still crave them though, especially when I party, but I've never gone back. Although when I was on the Gillie Islands in Indonesia, they like to mix the weed there with tobacco, and damn did I ever enjoy that.

You should definitely get the book. He also has one titled "Alan Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol", which I am sure is just as useful, however I've only read half of it.

 

Smoking is not allowed in bars here. That's a big problem for a lot of people.

 

It seemed to differ from state to state we went to. Some smoked, some didn't. At times some places were awful choking bad on smoke, and we'd walk out with hair absorbing the smoke smell ugh.

It's no different in Germany either. You're allowed to smoke in resteraunts etc. unless it says otherwise. Generally you get appreciation from most folks and even if they do smoke, they won't. But the other bars are gagging and revolting.

Every time we with someone and we go out for dinner and then they start complaining that someone is smoking I just say well we could leave, but, chances are someone is smoking in the next place too.

 

So far my eating healthier has not come into fruition. but!! I ordered fish for the first time in the history of Irminsul at a resteraunt last weekend. It was snapper. Snapper and veges, omg. It looked good on the menu and it was awesome. so there's that, I suppose.

 

I am a pretty casual smoker but I'm jealous of people who can quit completely because cigarettes no longer have any control over your life. Congrats on quitting for 3 years, that's a big accomplishment!

I haven't been a pack a day smoker in years but I wanted to quit this time around because I was getting to the point where I would have a couple every day after work and even that was making me feel like shit.

And then the couple of times a month I drink I would smoke a pack within the course of a few hours. I'm pretty sure most of my hangovers were cigarette, not alcohol induced.

You can't smoke in bars here either, but part of the appeal of smoking for me is how relaxing it is to sit outside and enjoy a cigarette. I actually hate smoking inside, it makes the air quality disgusting, so I'm more tempted to smoke when I have to step outside to do it.

 

I've been told that it's now popular around here at bars that have outdoor seating areas to carry around vaporizers loaded with weed. Apparently, the smell is not too obvious. I don't know that I'll ever be that bold, until / unless it becomes legal.

I love the combination of weed and alcohol. I'll probably combine them more this year, since I have a semi-serious New Year's resolution to drink less and get stoned more, to cut back on calories. Good quality grass has become so easy to find here, thanks to Colorado and California.

I know some people who say they started smoking cigarettes due to social pressure when they were young. I'd have to say it was just the opposite for me. Believe it or not, my high school actually had a designated smoking area for students aged 16 and over, but the group that hung out there in between classes was strictly hardcore redneck. Not my friends.

When I lived in the mountains, I knew of a Blue Ridge Parkway overlook where local young people met at sunset to smoke a joint, below a cliff that hid them from park rangers. That was a lot of fun. Somebody with an old Jeep would usually fold the top down and crank John Denver up loud on the tape player. Everybody knew the words to "Rocky Mountain High".

 

A pack in the course of a few hours? Wow....that is excessive.

Have you considered getting a non-nicotine vaporizer thing? I had one that tasted like cigarettes, but was actually completely nicotine free. It helped while I used it, but was very low quality so it ended up breaking after a few weeks.

 

study hard, always stay ahead.

 

It's time!

 

i've layed out tarot cards that way, the 12 in a circle, to represent each of those positions. its been years since i've thought about that.
not on the jan 1st, but on the solstices and equanoxis.
was an idea i got form a book i read, must have been sometime back in the 70s.
don't remember who it was by.