To Leave You Must Love

We continue doing things we hate because at the base of it, it gives us something, something we may even love.
It could be an abusive partner who gives us company, a hostile city that gives us a job or in my case, cigarettes that gave me a relief from the world.
These habits may also be psychological, like being cynical to protect our hope or being dismissive to protect our ego.
In other to leave these things behind we have to be clear about what they brought to us and seek replacements as the benefits of the unhealthy patterns are clearly valuable in our lives.
I did this by writing a farewell letter to cigarettes.