I recently took up smoking cigarettes again in a pretty big way after having quit for near-on 10 years. The method I used to quit the first time around hasn't worked that well this time, and I'm stressing about how fucked this is and how little willpower I have nowadays. I figure if you guys can talk some actual shit on me and tell me what a low-life dickhead I am for willingly taking this shit up again, maybe that will give me the kick in the ass I need.
1: Search “rubber band” in the search box above. Follow those steps every day without fail.
2: Take out your phone and call everybody in it, one after the other, and tell them that you quit smoking. Don’t sugar coat the call or small talk, keep it awkward as shit. “Hey Rick, it’s XXXXX, we used to work at Blockbuster together, remember? Anyway I quit smoking; I’m telling everyone.” Now everyone in your life is an accountability partner and has a stake in you not smoking. As an added benefit, probably a quarter of them will scoff at you. So there’s extra incentive, to shut dickheads down.
3: Look in the mirror and reflect on how embarrassing it is for a grown adult to be addicted to something. That you went and navigated your whole life successfully without dying or going to jail, but for some reason you picked this sad as shit little non-habit as the hill you are going to die on.
4: After that, reflect on the fact that you are cutting your potential partner pool into a quarter of what it was, and that the kind of person who doesn’t mind spending time with you while you smell like a tire fire is the kind of person who is pretty comfortable being on the wrong side of history.
-Andrew
