KungFuMike.net - October 25, 2007

The good news = I got wasted last night and I didn't smoke one cigarette.

The bad news = I did take two drags off of a cigarette when nobody was looking.

The good news = Those two drags made me sick as hell.

The great news = I am so hungover that I won't have another craving for three days.

I decided to experiment with drinking during my quitting process last night at a pumpkin carving party for three reasons; there isn't a snowball's chance between Rosie O'Donnell's corduroy clad thighs that I'm ever going to carve a pumpkin sober, I wanted to see how strong my will to quit smoking was in the most extreme situation possible and I knew that if I could get away with getting shitfaced without smoking, that I wouldn't want another smoke for another three days at least from the subsequent hangover. If you know me in real life, you know that my hangovers are borderline diabetic, and even when smoking regularly, I can't even look at a cigarette for a few days after a long night of sippin' on some sizzurp. I knew that it was a little early to be adding booze to the equation last night, but who's kidding who -- coffee is one thing, but how long could I feasibly go without drinking?!.

My pumpkin, the monkey.

Besides my little slip up with the two drags, I spent the night drunk and smoke free. One bad side effect I found regarding drinking during my withdrawal period is that I became very confrontational, and I ended up storming out of the house and going home after an argument with my friends about whether or not the media was over-sensationalizing the southern California wildfires at 4 am. What can I say? I hate modern news coverage.

Was my experiment a success? Absolutely. Now that I am good and hungover, I'll be in my non-smoking car driving down Easy Street for three days at least. Next stop, day 8!

EDIT: Please feel free to leave comments with any kind of tips and tricks to quit smoking that you have picked up along the way. I've been getting a lot of helpful hints via comments and email, and I do try pretty much all of them.

Posted by KungFu Mike at 11:47 AM