Made it 3 days in my endeavor to quit nicotine. It was a disparate failure. I'm going to find a way to tackle this problem more aggressively within the next week. Apart from a new semester going smoothly, my motivation in terms of willpower is still at a low, otherwise I would've quit cold turkey easily. Unrelated: one of my instructors is an officer, a Captain, with these schools' badges pinned on his shirt in order of awesomeness: Sapper Pathfinder Airborne Air Assault He teaches Physics after a career in the Corps of Engineers. There are tons of people with these qualifications at West Point-- if you're not familiar with these specialized schools just google some videos or something-- but I see this maniac every other day and he teaches me physics. If that's not a role model for me, I don't know what is. Seriously though, I have to quit nicotine.