For many years I fueled my life with coffee, adreneline and a few packs of cigarettes every day. Well.... I did throw in more than a little rum to. Hell. I even ate a sandwich and a salad now and then. And I ate way too many hot beef sandwiches and more chicken friend steaks than I can count.
When I came off the road Mrs Morgan convinced me to eat healthier and now I do. I switched from coffee to tea. I quit drinking vast quantities of rum. But....I still smoke a pack or two of cigarettes a day.
I've seen what cigarettes can do. One friend of mine had quadruple bypass heart surgery at the age of fourty-four. Another friend had a heart attack and two weeks later was diagnosed with lung cancer. And another of my friend's suffered a heart attack after smoking four packs of cigarettes a day for fourty years. All of my friends are still alive. And none of them smoke anymore.
A few weeks ago I stopped into the doc's office for the first physical I've had in about fifteen years. I always figured no news was good news and what I didn't know sure as hell couldn't hurt me. But then I got curious. I mean I feel fine. I'm tough as a boiled owl, stout as a bull and full of mischief. The results of my physical were all pretty good for a guy who's abused the dickens out of his body for way too many years.
I was reminded once more that my lungs look miserable when viewed from the inside out. And I knew I was running a little short of breath at REALLY inopportune moments. I hate it when that happens. So... Captain Morgan and Mrs Morgan are going to, once again, quit smoking.
I decided to make my quit date my birthday. I mean why not give myself the gift of better health for my remaining years in this lifetime? It seems like a cool thing to do. Now I'm taking my Zyban every day, getting my body and my mind ready to battle with the demon, nicotine. I've quit smoking before. More than once. I stayed quit once for fourteen months. Other times I made it five or six months. This time it's for good.
I've got some stuff I want to do before I move on to my next life and it might take me awhile so I need all the time I can get. I figure giving up cigarettes so I can hang around awhile longer is a worthwhile trade-off. This won't be an easy ride. It never is. Those who've already quit know EXACTLY what I'm saying. Those who've never smoked are damn fortunate!!!
I have devised a plan that I'm sure will work this time. Every time I want to smoke I'll have sex. Mrs Morgan loves the idea. The guys I work with are nervous as whores in a church.