Giving Up

I'm trying to give up a good thing. It's damn tough - I've previously given up cigarettes, and that was hard, but it wasn't quite so much of a good thing, in that it kills you.

There are other things though, that don't kill you - at least, they don't kill you directly. And when it comes to giving up these things it's much a case of 'just one last time'.

Deciding on when this last time should be is something that is easy to do, but is often retracted when you start to miss it. Then you see a whole new reason why the good thing should be banished from your life, and you schedule a last time again, with the view to sticking to it.

The vicious circle continues when the last time is so good that you can't possibly make it the last time. So, we go back to the start.

So tell me, how do you give up something that doesn't directly kill you, and is very enjoyable, but inherently bad? Just how do you make the last time, the actual last time?