I am patched again because smoking sucks
When we signed our deal, I promised Barak I would stop smoking again. So I patched myself again. Nicotine patches help me more by sending a signal to my brain that "I cannot smoke" than by the Nicotine dose they send me.
I stopped smoking many times with patches, unfortunately often after 4 to 6 months I start again. You could say I have no will and that would be true.
When Joi quit drinking at the beginning of this year, I had already promised I would stop smoking at the same time and the stress of launching Ublog and Six Apart in Europe made me start again. I guess smoking stimulates my brain, like coffee. It gets me even more excited but the short term side effects (headaches, being a little tired) and the long term side effects (cancer) are enough reasons to stop again.
This time I will try hard not to smoke again. Prices of cigarets have gone very high recently in Europe but it does not really affect me as I can afford it. Each time I fly to California the fact that it is banned to smoke everywhere is really good and pushes me stopping immediately. If it was only me I would ask the EU just to ban it from all restaurants and public places and apply severe fines for people still smoking there.
We had a law years ago in France that smoking is prohibited in public places and restaurants should create special areas to respect non smokers. I really regret nobody really applies that law, because the fact that you cannot smoke at all in restaurants is a serious motivation to stop, because smokers really like to smoke in restaurants.
Anyway, let's see if I make it more than 3 months this time... I guess making it public on my blog may help me have more will to respect I promised I quit smoking.
Anybody with similar experiences and thoughts ?