Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for February 07, 2010

Love panel 2.

Way to keep dad down, Binkley! “Toilet” will do it, every time!

He has the same nose as Opus. Uh, beak? Oh, and toilet water cigarettes? He could always put one behind his lip and sucky on it.

You cannot dry out wet cigarettes and smoke them. I tried it once with negative results. Nicotine is really a nasty, ugly old hag who leads you around by the nose and makes you do terrible things to degrade yourself. Thank God I don’t have that addiction anymore.

Sign in a men’s restroom:

“Please do not throw cigarette butts in the urinal”

Scrawled under that:

“as they become soggy and difficult to relight”

Bravo!

Quitting, the first 24 hrs are the worst, the next year a nagging feeling you should buy a pack, the next 5, a thought “a ciggie would taste good now”, and then finally you are completely FREE.

Yeah, what she said.

Five years after my last cigarette (almost 32 years ago) I realized that I was still telling people, “No, thanks. I’m trying to quit”.

What is it with these people? Last week it was Binkley on the table with a broken head.

Ten years ago last Sunday!!! And when I found a forgotten pack just after Valentine’s day that year, I stuck it in a bucket of water so it wouldn’t tempt me!!

Every time I see someone smoking or trying to quit, I am immensely thankful that I never started because I’m allergic. Maybe someone could create an allergy-causing pill for smokers.

I quit with hypnosis. The closest thing to a mystical and magical experience that I’ve ever had. I walked in a smoker, I walked out a non-smoker. And I walked around going, “Wow, I don’t want a cigarette,” for 2 or 3 years later.