Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

My darling,

I still remember the first night that I embraced you. It just started as an infactuation. Over time, I slowly developed a strong love towards you. In the past seven years, you have been throughout my life. You shared my success, sarrow, joy, tear, fear, celeberation, and what ...


These two articles at MSNBC about nicotine were found interesting.


Some companies in US recenlty said that they are not going to employ smokers. The reasons that are stated as follows.

  • Smokers go out for smoking once in half an hour which reduces the productivity
  • Smokers' brains think less and tend to make more mistakes thereby reducing quality in products ...

It is almost 24 days since I stopped smoking. There was a couple of miss in the mean time. Quitnet played a major role in this attempt. Anyone who tries to quit smoking must visit this site. These guys are doing an excellent job.


Today is my quit date. I found this site Quitnet exactly today. A nice site.


For yet another time (do not have the exact count in my mind), I planned to quit smoking. I set my quit date as 1st Aug 2004 (Significance: Friendship day). Atleast this time, I have to quit successfully. Also this time, I am not going to tell my friends that ...