Why I want to Quit Smoking
I want to live a long healthy and productive life.
I don’t want to be strapped to a ventilator when I am 40.
I don’t need cancer in my life.
I am broke as it is, and the cost of smoking is not helping.
I would rather spend my money on other things.
I want to run an ultra marathon in my life.
I want people to be able to smell my cologne and not a disgusting mixture of camels and dolce and gabanna.
I want to wake up without my lungs hurting.
I want to make my friends and family proud.
I don’t want to be a slave to an addiction any longer.
I don’t want to be a statistic.
I want my car to smell nice.
I want to go on the balcony to get fresh air.
I want to break the vicious cycle in which I am not constantly in a mode of craving.
I don’t want to be a slave or an addict.
I don’t need this in my life at all.
I want to set a good example.
I want to be a doctor who is not a hypocrite.
I don’t want my teeth to be yellow.
I want to be free of this.
Thank you for reading! Share your thoughts with me on bluesky, mastodon, or via email.
Check out some more stuff to read down below.
Most popular posts this month
- SQLite DB Migrations with PRAGMA user_version
- My Custom Miniflux CSS Theme
- Making cgit Pretty
- Using cgit
- Convert Markdown to PDF in Sublime Text
Recent Favorite Blog Posts
This is a collection of the last 8 posts that I bookmarked.
- Rewrote my blog with Zine from Drew DeVault's blog
- A eulogy for Vim from Drew DeVault's blog
- Pluralistic: AI "journalists" prove that media bosses don't give a shit (11 Mar 2026) from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- Offline 23 hours a day from Derek Sivers blog
- Pluralistic: California can stop Larry Ellison from buying Warners (28 Feb 2026) from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- On Alliances from Smashing Frames
- Acting ethically in an imperfect world from Smashing Frames
- Diffusion of Responsibility from Smashing Frames
Articles from blogs I follow around the net
Pluralistic: Demand destruction vs fuel-superceding infrastructure (04 May 2026)
Today's links Demand destruction vs fuel-superceding infrastructure: Will Trump hormuz us into the full Gretacene? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Beck, Scientologist; Citizen journalism; Podcast-killing treaty; US x Kiwi copyri...
via Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow May 4, 20261993 communal internet shaped me: https://sive.rs/netizen
1993 communal internet shaped me: https://sive.rs/netizen
via Derek Sivers May 4, 2026The 1990s called and they want their dialog box back
This is perhaps my favourite feature in Lightroom. You press ⇧T, you draw a few lines, and presto – your photo is now even: This is doubly magical to me. The first part is that this is even possible – that you can straighten the photo in both dimensions af...
via Unsung May 3, 2026Generated by openring