Writer's Block: Just Say No!
I guess the only bad habit I ever broke was smoking. On the day of the Surgeon General's Report in 1964, I decided to quit smoking cigarettes and bought a pipe (still bad, of course). I smoked a pipe off and on until 1974, when I just kind of stopped, as keeping pipes going is a lot of work. I'd spent a lot of money on them, and I never liked having to clean out the tar from the stem--or the taste of the tar while smoking, either. I had a couple of nice pipes during those ten years, and a bunch of el-cheapos, too.