Omygoodness, these people are hillarious!! I think Gonnadoit is chanelling Erma Bombeck with some Mae West thrown in.
But the advice is all sound, isn't it? Most important thing (doesn't Healer Within always say this -- where is she, in some sweat lodge somewhere?) that we forget that that whole deal is we want to quit, which means (duh) we don't want to smoke. Who in the name of every holy gave the smoker in us such power?? I guess it's the nature of the chemical addiction, which, like an Edelweiss, continues to bloom and grow, long after the nicotine has left our systems. (And yes, I'm chanelling Julie Andrews, thanks for noticing.)
So, our bodies and minds are being lied to, which really annoys me. Our bodies and minds want to quit, to break the addiction. Something deep within us tells us that we "want" a cigarette, or sillier, we "deserve" a cigarette, or most ludicrous of all, we "need" a cigarette.
I hear it countless times every day, and its audacity and arrogance continue to amaze me. It didn't take that many days for me to develop a really annoyed response to it, as so many others have already so astutely pointed out. We're grownups here (more or less), not children or prisoners. We are perfectly capable of getting ourselves to a store, plopping down our hard-earned money for that which seeks to do us unspeakable harm, and then, inexplicably, to suck those toxins right into our system no less lustily than a newborn getting his first taste of mother's milk.
Um, except that it isn't mother's milk, and we were supposed to stop sucking on things sometime around our potty training. (Well. Some things are of course okay to suck on, but they vary from person to person, he said primly. They do not include things you light.)
Still working on getting past your name, Jimmy the Irish Person, or maybe Jimmy the Celt (if I had ever said the work Mick as a reference to anyone but the Jagger person growing up, I would have been slapped as silly as I would had I used any other term of geo-social-ethno-religio designation), but I'm all about that dark part of you that thinks you want a cigarette. You SO know you don't, or you wouldn't have quit, right? What part of quit does that dark part not understand? Maybe you can help explain it to
