Time: 1am Place: Local Chinese restaurant.
"Sweet and sour chicken combo with pork fried rice and a Pepto-Bismol please"
I quit smoking -cigarettes. It has taken some time but at last, I can finally say that I no longer have a need, except for the often psychological itch, to smoke. (I wish they had a scratch rod, not in the form of a patch or piece of gum, for that itch.) I put a lot of effort into the act over these last few weeks and after hundreds of toothpicks, lolipops, bites to the lower lip, and shredded cocktail straws I have (fingers crossed) hopefully, gotten over the habit.
Kicking the habit has resulted in obsessive compulsions of my making to help divert my attention from that Philip-Morris yearning. But like the foreshadowing scene of a bad 80’s B-movie horror flick the atmosphere of unavoidable escape seems to often surround me (minus the eerie music or Gregorian chants) and I get all kinds of non tobacco related urges .
Yes, urges to compensate for my other unsatisfied urges. I toss, I turn, I fixate myself in self absorption, arts and crafts, and complicated wrist maneuvers while simultaneously controlling remote control functions with the other, read, tease the cat, my nipples, (scratch that last one from the list) channel surf, Ajaxing the toilet bowl during AM hours etc.etc. Mostly, I make up for the lack of those 20 individual tightly bound cylindrical poison laden treats packaged in a shinny box full of dismissed warnings, with food. Oh gosh how I eat!
I eat for the sake of eating, for the sake of not smoking, cigarettes that is, because we all know that I’m no Leprechaun but I am rather fond of green.
Hence the munchies, hence Chinese food at the AM hours, hence this picture, hence the blood-shots, hence the hences.
Hey Yusef...
interesting post. I commend you on kicking the habit...
I know it's hard as hell,but you definitely seem to be on the way to doing it.
Now, if you can teach me how to kick my weed addiction, then I can totally celebrate with you..
and nothing wrong with bloodshot eyes and nightly am chinese food...well, it is if you have to down a bottle of the pink stuff afterwards.
Marijuana has yet to be proven to have "physically addictive qualities". Its all in your head but less for you means more for me, so yeah, i guess we can celebrate if and when you are willing to part
Weeeeeeeeepa! Hay party! i quit 2 weeks ago as well. and i did it w/o your lip biting, lolipop sucking, toothpick chewing (Oh God! those damn toothpicks! i'm scarred for life cause of you lol.) advice. na, really though, i did. i know how it is... and those urges have passed as well; took me about 3 weeks.
*pats Yusef on the back*
wat da hell did u smoke u look extremly bent!...lol but yea i commend u on quitin cigs cause i cant especially after i smoke an L i have to have a cig!
Hey Yusef:
That's the hard part...I want to quit, but i like it so much...VERY MUCH.
so i may have to do it in moderation...:)
more for you? Dude, you can partake of my stash (which is damn good compliments of my super! :))
MAD props to kicking the habit. I can only imagine how difficult it is to quit. All I can say is that your body will be so much better off...
Good luck as u venture down this cancer-free road...
NOW, by all means EAT. Yet, were the munchies the cause of other mood enhancing toxins? lol
Pass da L papi! hah
yo Yusef congrats on quiting and not 2 sound cliche but don't quit quiting...keep hiting the gym papa cause that chinese food will start showing up in unexpected places....I had my own midnight (more like 3am) cravings the other day and my and my boy went 2 white castle..I literally had to run that shit off the next day....