I know it’s apparent by now that I love making lists.  I really do.  I learned it during all of my Law of Attraction journaling and THEN I signed up for this professional blogger newsletter that said people love lists.  They really do!  Apparently, they’re one of the most popular things read on the internet.  I blame this on those silly slide shows.  You know the ones.  ’15 of the DEADLIEST soft drinks in the world’ or ’20 Ways to find out if your lover is cheating on you and you should stab them in the face’ or …. 100 Things I’m Grateful For

Today’s list is 101 reasons I want to quit smoking AGAIN so I can remind myself and my readers can hold me accountable as well.  This will hopefully be the last time I quit.  Some of them might not make sense to you, but they do to me and that’s all that matters.  Maybe someone else will also identify some reasons to quit smoking for themselves.

1. Longer life span.
2. I want more babies.
3. Keeping a promise to my kids.
4. Not poisoning anyone with secondhand smoke.
5. I don’t want to be the first one in my family to get cancer.
6. Hiking to Machu Picchu
7. Puma Punka
8. More stamina.
9. Barking in windows.
10. Lower my carbon footprint.
11. I’ll smell like my perfume instead of perfume and smoke.
12. Skydiving.
13. International flights without nic fits.
14. I won’t have to stand really far from my non smoking friends anymore or walk behind them.
15. More money for pedicures.
16. Keeping my youthful skin
17. Kissable breath.
18. I’ll be able to really taste food completely.
19. Less coughing.
20. More running and jogging.
21. More swimming.
22. More bicycling.
23. More hiking.
24. I won’t have to worry about people stealing my lighter anymore.
25. Not having to stand in the rain when there’s no one to kiss.
26. One less item in my already crowded purse.
27. No more standing in the freezing cold first thing in the morning or late at night.
28. Managing stress and anxiety by breathing oxygen instead of smoke.
29. Non smoking rooms in hotels really are cleaner.
30. Listening to an entire seminar without having to walk out in the middle of it.
31. Road trips without frequent stops.
32. Staying on the dance floor longer.
33. Phuket
34. It would be impossible to smoke a whole cigarette during Songkran.
35. Hot ash in the eye hurts like a bitch.
36. Smoke in the eye hurts almost as much as hot ash in the eye.
37. Unlike what the media taught me, non-smokers are sexier.
38. Keeping more of my money out of the hands of big corporations.
39. My teeth will stay whiter.
40. I’m almost 35 and that’s a good age to be giving up rebellious habits.
41. Smoking does not serve me spiritually or emotionally.
42. I will be lessening the suffering in the world.
43. I can visit any city, even if it has a smoking ban.
44. Less chance I’ll be responsible for a forest fire.
45. I don’t have to worry about people bumping into a lit smoke in a crowded place and burning them.
46. Cigarette burns on clothes suck.
47. More options in places I can live.
48. I can really have a full blown ‘bed day’ and just not get out of bed all day long.
49. Don’t have to worry about accidentally setting my hair on fire.
50. Approximately 100 extra minutes a day of productivity or relaxation or laughs or love or meditation…
51. I can always have minty or fruity breath!
52. I won’t offend people at spiritual events.
53. Quitting smoking is a practice in self discipline.
54. This is a process of letting go, strengthening my unattachment to egoic things.
55. I’m paving the way and setting an example for others.
56. Smoking in a Prius just isn’t cool.
57. I want to sing.
58. You can’t hide out in a bunker after the apocalypse and be a smoker.
59. Less stress and tension from the nic fits.
60. 20 years is long enough to have a bad habit.
61. My spirit is stronger than my addiction.
62. My body is a temple for my soul and my soul deserves a clean temple.
63. There’s nowhere to buy cigarettes when you’re in the middle of the ocean.
64. Quitting manifests more freedom into my existence.
65. You can’t smoke with a scuba mask on.
66. There’s no smoking in space and I will get on a space yacht one day!
67. I want my lips to stay plump and lush instead of getting wrinkles around them earlier than necessary.
68. Bigfoot would be able to smell the cigarette smoke from quite a distance and never make himself known to me
69. Simply by quitting, I’m increasing my chances of survival in the zombie apocalypse.
70. None of the really cool people smoke…
71. I won’t be antsy the last half of the movies at a theater.
72. I won’t have to deal with little tobacco flakes at the bottom of my purse.
73. No more ashes on the dashboard.
74. I will no longer inadvertently be responsible for my butts ending up in the ocean or in birds’ bellies.
75. One less form of tax I’m giving to our defunct government.
76. Less trips to the store and less time spent in liquor stores in general.
77. I won’t accidentally hand one to a minor.
78. I won’t be contributing to an industry with a very shady past anymore.
79. I want to be sexy in every way and smelling like a cigarette in any way at all isn’t going to help that.
80. I don’t want to have a stroke.
81. I don’t want a third ticket for a cigarette that went out the car window in front of cop.
82. I’d like to keep change in my car’s ashtray so it’s always there for me to give to the panhandlers on the side of the freeway.
83. I can pay at the pump and not worry about having to go into the cashier when I buy gas.
84. I will be conquering a huge habit that I never should have had and has been the most challenging for me.
85. I’ll make myself proud.
86. I won’t be that old lady that accidentally burns her house down when she falls asleep with one in her hand or mouth.
87. I’m lowering my chances of getting crapped on by a bird or attacked by a squirrel.
88. I can sit inside of coffee shops instead of always outside, no matter the weather.
89. If I can quit smoking, I can do anything!
90. I never have to worry about someone’s pet inadvertently eating one of my cigarette butts.
91. I won’t accidentally contaminate paranormal photos on ghost hunts.
92. I’ve seen mouth cancer and it’s probably one of the grossest forms of cancer.  Quitting makes my chances of getting mouth cancer lower.
93. It will probably be the first thing my fundamental Jehovah’s Witness grandmother will be proud of me for.
94. I don’t have to listen to people fake cough anymore, tell me how bad smoking is for me, sigh, see them roll their eyes or any other displays of disapproval from random strangers.
95. I won’t be financially obligated to buying extra cigarettes because inevitably someone will ‘bum one’ or try to buy one off of you.
96. You can’t smoke when you’re volunteering time at an orphanage, which is on my list.
97. I won’t have to pull over and put the fire in the backseat out in my car ever again.
98. I would be able to hang out with some of my friends for longer periods of time that don’t have a tolerance for cigarette smoke.
99. Smoking is NOT fancy.
100. Don’t ever have to worry about pissing off the neighbors with drifting smoke again.
101. I’ve seen older people with yellow fingers from the smoke and I don’t ever want yellow fingers.

I must admit, however, I feel like my cigarettes are singing this to me right now (which is kinda true but actually just an excuse to slip this song in here because it’s amazing):