quitting smoking & loosing weight (in theory)

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ok, so i have made the decision to quit smoking... like 7 times in the last two months. each time included pulling through for a few days and then breaking down and buying a pack.

in the last several days, a time period that coincidentally corresponds to me finally quitting with another addiction (drunk texting my exwife), i have not only returned to smoking but all the way to chain smoking... between over-eating, obsessively caffeinating myself out of normal sleeping orders and drinking (yes i'm a mess).

but i also had an interesting talk with a computer technician who he and a few other guys he knows quit smoking... now his own story i can't recreate, and hope to never have to. it includes bypass heart surgery, at which point coughing now really hurts his chest (talk about biofeedback), and two weeks he had in the hospital without smoking while his loved ones where nice and supportive around him while nurses served him hand and foot. my loved ones.. well, are in another country and hate my guts, and i am very unlikely to get that sort of opportunity in the near future (and sort of don't want too).

but his buddy... walks it off. keeping your running shoes always, on, stays clothes around the house (the horror!), and every time he wants a smoke he goes out walking.. and now it has become his new addiction.

and i'm thinking... two birds in one stone?

edit: i just realized this should probably be moved to health...