A Quitter Never Wins
November 12, 2008
It is the 12th of November 2008, and I have been nicotine-free since the 1st of January 2008. Phew~ Quite an achievement I’d say, quite an achievement. So, how DID I do it? How do I quit? Simple, really. You know how when we thought of doing something, or achieving something, then we get really lazy and starts delaying the work and eventually end up not doing anything? Well that’s how I quit smoking. In the beginning, each time there’s an urge to smoke, I just say to myself, “Maybe later” and pretty soon enough, the urge, same as every other things that I love to delay, will end up not being done. Heh… If you are trying to quit, maybe you should give this a try. But if you really want to quit, you should do it now, because if you delay it, saying to yourself “Maybe later” then maybe THAT will never be achieved as well. It’s a double-edged sword I guess.
Well, that was my motivation to quit smoking. As a de-motivator, I would like to share this quote from the movie “Sin City”. The character ‘Dwight’ is no longer a smoker, but since he committed multiple murders that night, and the police is on his tail, he is feeling tensed, and that is when the urge to smoke comes knocking, to which ‘Jackie-Boy’ said to him:
“Nobody ever really quits. A smoker’s a smoker when the chips are down. And your chips are down.”
What ‘Jackie-Boy’ meant to say is that a smoker will never quit. They can only PAUSE it, pretending to quit, but actually when the going gets really bad, when he is under tremendous pressure, that smoker will certainly light his cigarette and become a smoker again. Interesting, neh~? Let’s see how I will prove him wrong. (^_^)
