RULE TO BREAK
“Make a New Year’s resolution every year”
I was a smoker for many years, and tried several times to give up. I once managed it for eight months, but eventually gave in to its temptations again. Every time I gave up I would plan it, I’d decide when I was going to have my last fag (on New Year’s Eve more than once), and I’d savour every drag of that final cigarette before giving up. Within days – hours even – I’d be back at it again, unable to bring myself to stop for good.
One evening in 2002, while sitting watching TV and smoking, a programme came on that changed my attitude completely. Half way through my cigarette I suddenly decided that I didn’t want to be a smoker any more.* I stubbed the thing out half smoked, and have never ...
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