Kyle Quits Smoking

On day 12 (or 13, as today would be), I learned something new. Quitting smoking makes significantly reduces the severity of hangovers, despite the quantities of booze consumed. Why is that?

On a purely unscientific basis, I assume that smoking reduces the flow of oxygen to the brain while the nicotine depletes your vitamin C reserves. This in combination with the toxic effects of alcohol make for a nasty ass hangover as your liver works over time without the aid of oxygen and vitamins. Again, this only my retarded theory. All I know is that I drank a ton last night, enough to usually render me worthless the next day, and I’m feeling fine.
Considering it’s 2 days until Halloween, the party atmosphere last night was incredible.

Not only did I brave a smoky bar, I braved it for six hours. Now this isn’t one of those “a couple of people smoking” type places, I’d say that 80% of the patrons were smokers. I was thinking about the taste of a cigarette with my whiskey rocks every 2 minutes. I gnawed the hell out of a straw, but I still managed to have a good time. What I realized is that all I’m really doing is choosing not to smoke. Sure, I have to make that choice 100 times a day, but the more I choose not too, the more it strengthens my choices in the future, which is usually only a few minutes away.

I’m utterly convinced that the way to quit is a simple unplanned quit when you run out of smokes. Everytime I’ve planned on quitting, that “last cigarette” is never as good as I want it to be, and as Murphy’s Law illustrates, what can happen will happen and things never go as planned.

Posted on October 29th, 2006 at 11:19 am in Quitting Smoking. You can comment, or trackback from your own site.