First Time for Everything

Well here I am sitting at this PC with a million ideas flowing through my head and none of them are reaching down to my fingers. It's kind of funny that I would decide to start a blog and quit smoking at the same time. Perhaps I am looking to replace one habit with another. Or maybe I am looking to fill up the time I spent smoking with the time I'll spend blogging. I think it's probably just timing. I've been thinking about blogging for a while and the quit-smoking thing was a spur of the moment action. That is, if you can call having to decide between buying a carton of cigarettes or putting gas in the car a "spur of the moment" thing.

It's been three days and I am not smoking because I can't afford to smoke. It's that simple. And that makes it easy. I've been not doing things my whole life simply because I couldn't afford to do them. I've never been on a cruise, purchased caviar at the supermarket, or driven home in a shiney, brand-new corvette. That's why I think it's easier for me to quit smoking for financial rather than health reasons.

That's right folks. I didn't stop smoking because I disliked it or to improve my health. I didn't do it to make my car and home smell better. No, it was simply a financial decision. When it takes 50 bucks to fill my car with gas every week, how can I justify spending 35 dollars on a carton of smokes? And that's only if I drive to Delaware, which by my calculations cost me about $9.50 in gas. I knew how bad smoking was for me yet that never stopped me. But hit me in the wallet and boy do you get my attention!