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Today is Day One of stopping smoking. I've been secretly planning his for a little while and decided to choose these two weeks of holiday as the best time because (a) it's a break from usual routine so I shan't be tempted by the "have a cigarette on the way to the station" habit and (b) because when I fully expect to be distracted by the need for nicotine to the point where concentration becomes difficult - at work it's too easy to use that as a justification for a smoke and (c) because since I am on holiday I won't be getting wound up or stressed out by work stuff.

I need to remind myself why I am stopping smoking:-

1. It is bad for my health


2. It costs a great deal of money


3. It is smelly


4. It interferes with the ability to taste/smell food and wine


5. It involves hanging around outside buildings looking faintly shifty (although that may actually have nothing to do with smoking)


6. Friends who have recently stopped smoking look noticeably and obviously healthier


7. I don't like being in the thrall of something as stupid as burning money to damage myself.


8. My father died of cancer, my aunt died of cancer, my uncle died of heart disease.

Please wish me perseverance and luck.