I remember going to an Alanon meeting years and years ago and a woman was speaking about anger. She said that she had gotten so angry a couple of days before that she could FEEL the blood pulsing in her forehead. She was angry because she had told her son and husband over and over and over again NOT to leave their dishes and laundry, etc sitting around for her to pick up because she is NOT their maid. She decided she was going to TIME how long it took her to pick up after them and she was going to CHARGE them for it, either in financial restitution or by making them do something for HER that took an equal amount of time. She started timing and angrily picking up and putting things away and when she finished, she checked the time thinking that she would have some sort of HUGE reward coming. It took her a total of 6 1/2 minutes. She said that after that the slogan, "How important IS it?" became clear to her and she knew that nothing was as important as it first seems through the veil of anger. What REALLY would change if you smoked? Would you no longer be angry? I think you would be angry with yourself and whatever the original catalyst was...don't give your quit away.
