{"id":726,"date":"2010-08-20T09:56:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T09:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visaisahero.wordpress.com\/?p=726"},"modified":"2024-03-02T14:49:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T14:49:46","slug":"diminishing-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2010\/08\/20\/diminishing-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"Diminishing the nicotine dependence."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have to confess that I haven’t completely quit smoking. I do still often go several days without smoking, and I no longer think about cigarettes all the time. But I have the occasional smoke from time to time, especially when I run into friends who are smokers. I will invoke the 80\/20 principle here- I’ve reduced my smoking by roughly 80%, but that last 20% will certainly take immense amounts of effort and energy that could be better spent elsewhere.<\/p>\n

For now<\/strong>, I am content with my substantially decreased level and frequency of smoking, and I will divert the bulk of my attention towards other things that would improve my quality of life- my fitness and diet, for instance. I know that this sounds like I’m making an excuse to continue smoking<\/strong>– but this is not the same. I used “quit smoking” on multiple occasions, but every time I failed I would revert to my full habit.<\/p>\n

This time, I’m looking at it progressively- I go cold turkey for a period of time, and when I succumb to the cravings and impulses, I do it in a calculated and structured way that allows me to maximise the utility gained while minimising the quantity consumed. I am really, truly smoking less and less- for the first time since I started smoking. I think cigarettes will continue to be a part of my life and identity, especially while I’m in NS, where I find that smoking is really good social lubricant. But I will continue to smoke less and less.<\/p>\n

Would you be interested in reading about how I got started to begin with, and how it became a part of my life? If I get some favourable comments, I’ll do an entry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to confess that I haven’t completely quit smoking. I do still often go several days without smoking, and I no longer think about cigarettes all the time. But I have the occasional smoke from time to time, especially when I run into friends who are smokers. I will… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[441],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-smoking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-bI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9933,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/9933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}