Why do something today that I can blow off until tommorrow?

As the Summer of '77 (degrees) winds down, I apply my procrastinator's mantra to my smoking cessation efforts..."Why do something today that I can blow off until tommorow?" I mean, that's the reason for this blog...the longer I blog, the longer I smoke. That philosophy has just met its match. I'm going back to work, so now I really have to quit, like, soon.
  The last time I posted, I was explaining one of life's basic truths...that if there is a problem confronting you, either throw money at it or take a pill. (This dovetails nicely with what I call the three truths of rescue, or the Warren Zevon philosophy...'lawyers guns and money:...will get me out of this.') The drug Chantix allowed me to do both. Directions for using Chantix to quit smoking includes a clause that is a procrastinator's dream. You take the pill for a wek before you actually try to quit. This is supposed to alow the drug time to build up in your bloodstream. Must be strong stuff. One of the many disclaimers for Chantix warns of "vivid or disturbing dreams."  Now you realy can't believe all those disclaimers, since they are the corporate answer to the Warren Zevon philosophy. ("Have Goldberg in Legal draw up a long drawn out disclaimer, one that is so long and boring that the viewers eyes glaze over and they never pay attention to that part about growing a tail or hating the color yellow.") The part about disturbing dreams was just the half ofnit. These nightmares stuck with you like a bad deja vu...and I mean all day. There was no shaking these psychological horror stories, and by the fifth day I couldn't take it anymore. Phillip Morris 12, me nothing.
   So far I've tried a variety of stop smoking strategies and none have worked, except prohibition (jail...but all I could think of was cigarettes, and as soon as I got out I lit up. )  One thing that at least changed the manner in which nicotine was delivered that was relatively satisfying was a combination of the nicotine patch and the nicotine gum. The patch was goodf