Mark

I finally finished redesigning my website found here: http://michaelhusson.com/mark .

The problem I had was I wanted to redesign it, add features, change blogging tools, change presentation (pure css-based, no tables), and change servers. I finally realized the best thing to do was to redesign it first, then do the other things later. This changed the daunting task into a much smaller, more accomplishable task, and it took me about 3 weeks total.

I would suggest doing a redesign every once and a while, but don’t turn it into a site overhaul if you actually want to complete the task!

I quit in December of 2003. I mainly quit because I have a niece now, and I don’t want to be her “uncle that smokes”. I think the most important part of quitting is planning ahead. Set a date a few weeks ahead, and then tell everyone you know (especially your family) that you are quitting on that date. Another big thing was to make sure you throw away, break, or dump out all of your smoking paraphenalia (ash trays, lighters, butane, lighter fluid, even take the cigarette lighter out of your car).

I think all the planning is what has kept me a non-smoker since 2003. Good Luck!