‘Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.’

i work with this guy who thinks he can go to a seminar at a hotel and pay someone $40 to quit smoking. he can’t go 20 minutes without needing to take a smoke break. and even if this seminar somehow brainwashes him into thinking he doesn’t need cigarettes, he’ll find a way to get back to basics. heh heh. pun intended. i don’t know what brand he smokes, but it’s still funny.

this $40 stop smoking/lose weight seminar has got me thinking, though. what is it about people who think there can be an easy answer for anything? fast, easy, simple, and painless are words used to entice you into buying something that will never work. it’s pretty simple, actually.

^right there.^ did you see that? i just tried to get you to buy my opinion. i wasn’t asking $40, but my method was the same.

i don’t want people buying my opinion. i want people buying their own.

“no money down! we finance!!” (extra exclamation mark for importance)

so the guy i work with, he’s a little crazy. and angry. and his lazy eye creeps me out. he is definitely the kind of guy who would buy into a quit-smoking-quick deal. you know what the nail in the coffin was? the guarantee. it works, guaranteed, or they refund you 110% of your money. he was so excited because if it didn’t work, he’d be making $10! yes, he thought that 10% of $40 was $10. this is the very same genius who controls the money at the pizza place where i work. but, i mean, what do you expect for $7/hr?

i know that addiction can be a tough thing, especially physical addiction. when your body thinks you need a blast of nicotine to calm you down. but if it’s as simple as giving someone $40 to tell you to stop smoking, then it should be just as simple to stop buying cigarettes. for free.

(the post title quote is from miss brooke shields. she is fabulous.)