Quitting Things is More About the Replacement Habits Than the Quitting

Sick brag in 3...2...I have only purchased 4 packs of cigarettes in 2015.

I do vape, though. 

Trying to wean myself off that. 

I want to look into the literature and therapy out there for cigarette smoking cessation.

I never gave it much credit; I still don't.

But I need to know if they at least address my two major problems with the very question of cessation.

1.) Do groups like Smokers' Anonymous (or whatever the major groups are) admit the obvious value of the cigarette, of smoking, even beyond the nicotine?

2.) Do groups like that (and I also mean, the books, the doctors that speak on the issue, etc) ever explain that quitting is never a complete definition of the problem at hand? This is to say, quitting is part of the problem, but the easier of the two parts. Do they ever deal with the more difficult part of the problem: the filling in with new habits?

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THURSDAY - FEB 25 - 2010 (Journal entry.)

Peeling back addictions is or feels like becoming "purer"
?
I'll take it
(?)
So much to do so much to do
cigarettes just aren't going to work for me
I'll take it
working hard is becoming more fun
I'll
Barthes gives me mental boner
total asshole & wrong in the end (I think) but
mmm post-structuralism
the rustle of language makes me feel like I'm doing god's work
thinking the right thoughts making similar connections it's times like these I get the (false) hope that there is anything resembling an answer to any of the big metaphysical questions

Psychic Vampirism (Journal: February 24, 2010)

I found a bit of an indirect progress report. Which is to say, an old journal entry displaying some troubles from five years ago, some of which have been dealt with, some others not so much...

Dave P has been here a lot. Sometimes I blame my own lack of productivity on PSYCHIC VAMPIRISM -- his negative energy and laziness have become mine, &c.

Guess I shouldn't do that.

Lately been asking myself, "What's wrong with me?" -- again with the negativity -- I live with the knowledge that I have made certain beds and that I must lie in them --

Yet -- in the end there really is so much work to be done, so much work that isn't getting finished, for myriad reasons --

I can only work hard and stay out of people's way -- play nice as they say --

I just want to get my work on and whoever wants to work hard alongside me is more than welcome.