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title: "Ex-smoking bloggers of the world... breathe!"
date: 2002-06-24T13:53:33-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2002/06/24/ooobod/
author: Les Orchard
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# Ex-smoking bloggers of the world... breathe!

<p>From the recently-returned <a href="http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2002/06/22#smoking">Dave</a>:<blockquote><i>I am now an ex-smoker. I want to say that in public. Of course I still really want to smoke.</i></blockquote>Me too, since January 2002.  As Dave explains, I too had a very deep, integral place in my problem solving process for a cigarette.  I also had a spot for a cigarette in my avoiding-violence-against-coworkers process.  But, many panic attacks and insanity-verge moments later, I think I'm doing quite well.  I have started strangulating more co-workers, but my problem solving skills have become mroe productive.</p>
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            <div class="content">I quote smoking on Halloween night in 1998. 3-1/2 years later, I still crave a smoke. It does get easier, eventually, but I don't think that craving ever goes away.</div>
            
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