RE: An apology in advance
February 5, 2014 at 12:47 am
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2014 at 12:48 am by Cato.)
I completely understand. I had quit for the month of December only to pick them back up, using my move to NYC as an excuse. I also quit for six months in 2011, but used losing my job as an excuse to pick the habit back up.
I wish you the best; I know how hard it is. A dirty secret is that there is no physical addiction after 72 hours. To me this knowledge makes quitting even more difficult in that the rationalizations we create about the enjoyment of smoking become stronger.
I recently read an article that posits that its difficult to temper current behavior based on long term effects, whether health realted or saving for retirement, because we consider our future self as someone else.
Found it...
http://nautil.us/issue/9/time/why-we-procrastinate
I wish you the best; I know how hard it is. A dirty secret is that there is no physical addiction after 72 hours. To me this knowledge makes quitting even more difficult in that the rationalizations we create about the enjoyment of smoking become stronger.
I recently read an article that posits that its difficult to temper current behavior based on long term effects, whether health realted or saving for retirement, because we consider our future self as someone else.
Found it...
http://nautil.us/issue/9/time/why-we-procrastinate
Quote: Parfit’s view was controversial even among philosophers. But psychologists are beginning to understand that it may accurately describe our attitudes towards our own decision-making: It turns out that we see our future selves as strangers. Though we will inevitably share their fates, the people we will become in a decade, quarter century, or more, are unknown to us.
