Every year, the third Thursday of November is the Great American Smokeout. For one day, smokers all over the world give up their filthy, nasty, disgusting habit, and suffer through the day with millions of their other fellow smokers.
The goal of the day is to give smokers a taste of what it’s like to live without cigarettes, in hopes that they’ll think, “I can do this another day,” and then another, and eventually quit permanently. For some it works. For many it doesn’t.
But it’s worth a try. The goal is to quit for a whole day, from the time you get out of bed to the time you fall asleep. If you are just reading about it now, you could always make Friday, November 16 your smokeout day instead – believe me, us nonsmokers won’t mind.
One more post to come, but right now, I’m hungry, so I’m going to walk to Blue Plate for meat and three.