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light. So I thought, "Maybe I can use that pride to help me dump this damn
habit." So I made a list of all the people who I really wanted to respect me. Then I
went out and got some blank business cards and I wrote on the back of each card,
"I promise you that I will never smoke another cigarette."
Within a week, I had given or sent a signed card to everybody on my list-my
dad, my brother back East, my boss, my best girlfTiend, my ex-husband, everybody
but one-the guy I was dating then. I was just crazy about him, and I really
wanted him to value me as a person. Believe me, I thought twice about giving him
a card because I knew that if I couldn't keep my promise to him I'd die. But one
day at the office-he worked in the same building as I did-Ijust walked up to
him, handed him the card, and walked away without saying anything.