Great American Smokeout

I don’t want to sound any more judgmental than anyone else who says this, but SMOKING IS BAD FOR YOU!

Is that enough for you?  Probably not, otherwise you would have quit already.  Chances are I’m not the first person to tell you this news.  I hope I’m not.  I didn’t come up with it, I’ve just learned it over my many years.  (This is a secret to few except my mother, but I smoked for one month in my freshman year of college.  I smoked one pack in that one month, which is almost equivalent to putting a half a stick of butter in a pot of soup; it serves a party of 12, so calm down.) That said, it’s just not good for you or anyone else around you. So stop it!

I don’t exclude the fact that there’s plenty of things I do that are bad for me, and I’m not exactly expecting you to shut me up about it.  But I don’t go around eating too many chicken fingers, dipping them liberally into vats of bleu cheese all over people’s laps while they’re trying to eat their mesclun greens and wheat germ.  That would just be annoying, not hazardous to anyone else’s health.  Hopefully.

So here we are, at the Great American Smokeout, sponsored by American Cancer Society.  Tomorrow is the big day, November 15.  Make it count.  Stop before it becomes too late.  The good thing is that you don’t need any more convincing, just the sheer will and desire.  And you’ve got a lot of helpful citizens and fellow quitters to help you.  So in that vein, for the entire day tomorrow when I see a cigarette I’m going to yank it from someone’s mouth and stomp on it.  Maybe that will help matters.

Probably not. I’ll just lead by example and eat salad all day.

Helpful information...
American Cancer Society - Great American Smokeout
Center for Disease Control
QuitSmoking.org (this page is dated for last year’s GASO, but it’s nonetheless useful)

Image courtesy this guy.

Posted by on 11/14 at 06:48 PM