going back to smoking
by saying to myself,
"I'll just have one more..."
then return to the habit
that had wiped out much
of my family. It was only
when I admitted that it
wasn't "just one more..."
own the fact that it was
ten thousand more...and
once I visualized what
10,000 cigarettes actually
looked like, I quit for good.
10,000 cigarettes is...
50 cartons, which is about
3,850 cubic inches, which
is more than 2 cubic feet
of cigarettes. That's a box
more than 12"x 12"x 24".
Smokable tobacco-
assuming 2.0"/cigarette
20,000 inches or 1,667 ft.
Almost a quarter mile
of tobacco. At a pack a
day, it will take only 16
months to smoke that
much. When viewed in
this manner, that only
one more cigarette
looks too vast to
see beyond.
Do the math. It will
make quitting for good
a lot easier...
I remember standing out behind a restaurant in the rain smoking beside the dumpsters with the bus-boys, while my family and friends sat inside, warm, happy, celebrating my birthday. 27 years! The girls I lost. The money I spent 3-4 packs a day. The kids who followed my example instead of my advice....
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