According my to home page (www.jimwcoleman.com) I have kept my New Years Resolution for 3 months, 10 days, 19 hours, 47 minutes and 33 seconds (at the time of this writing.) Feel free to click the link to make sure I'm still adhering to the tenants of a healthier, smoke-free 2007. Additionally, the same ticker will show that I have saved $562.78 since I quit. Sure wish I knew where that $562 bucks was, though. I could use it right about now.

As someone very experienced at quitting smoking, I'm well aware of that "three month barrier." Once you get the hang of not smoking, it's pretty easy, until you hit the three month mark. Ask anyone who has tried to quit, and they'll tell you the same. And then it hits again at about nine months.

I finally figured out why!!!

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Posted by Jim W Coleman at 8:46 PM | Permalink

Well, here it is, the end of another year and that can only mean one thing - resolution time. Though I may be speaking too early, I think it's probably safe to say that for the first time, I actually stayed true and committed to my 2006 New Year's resolution: to stay out of the hospital for one full calendar year! You may snicker, but that's easier said than done with me. Picture Gerald Ford with a chainsaw. I'm clumsier even than that. So this year, I've avoided chainsaws, motorcycles, evil women and all those other things that can hurt you. But, admittedly, I've been injured in many innocuous ways as well, so I've really had to keep one eye over my shoulder for pianos falling from third-story balconies, etc. So long as I make it through today, I would have made my resolution for 2006! There will be champagne at midnight, so long as I don't put my eye out with the cork.

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