Curse Sir Walter Raleigh & Page the Physician

Everyone has to have an angle and even Sir Walter Raleigh, needed an angle. How do you make money from these wretched New World colonies? One word tobacco. Sir Walter has a bad head day, gets his lobbed off at the hands of an executioner and now cut to present I'm stuck smoking these awful cigarettes at $4.50 a pack. As mentioned in previous blog, "The Writing Is On The Wall", I intend to quit smoking for several reasons. Smoking has become a social no no, and even the great sport of sipping a Martini and smoking will become a thing of the past in bars and restaurants in Houston come September. Secondly, just do the math, one pack a day @ $4.50 a pack, thirty days in a month, lets say we just call it $150 per month, $1800.00 per year. That is a lot of wompam for really negative benefit. Smoking is bad for you, check it with American Cancer Association, it significantly increases your risk of heart attack and stroke check with American Heart Association.
So let's quit smoking shall we? there are about as many ways to quit as there are brands of cigarettes, including but not limited to prescription drugs Zyban or Chantix, need a physician for these , hypnotism, the nicotine patch/hand lotion/gum/inhaler, acupuncture (you know who likes that method) all designed to rid you of the addictive nature of tobacco. Now I'm qitting to get healthy, no doubt, but I'm also trying to save a buck or two and all these methods cost as much as the habit itself. So I am going to rely on the oldest method in the book: Cold Turkey. Simply put, just stop smoking, or put another way stop buying cigarettes. I've done it before, at the urging of a now ex girlfriend, I quit smoking, promptly gained about 40 pounds, she dumped me, I started smoking again. Weight gain is a big concern for smokers, so I really have some work cut out for me, quit smoking and to stay healthy. By the way, don't start smoking and you will never have to deal with this. By yet another bit of technical wizardry, I installed a cigarette counter to the right on this blog which will keep me honest. Hopefully in about three weeks, $120 saved, from today I'll have kicked the nicotine addiction part, and be on the path to clean living.