So this is it - your New Year's resolution.
A positive and worthwhile contribution.
A change, you say, for better.
You'll stick by it to the letter.
But let's see how oft it 'comes an institution?

"I'm going to stop smoking, and I stress,
that quitting will improve my health I guess
I'll stop it now - completely.
No. next week. I'll stop discretely.
No. that's still too hard. I'll just try smoking less."

...The conclusion to this poem is among one of 100 poems in Shane P Ward's compilation, LOL Poems (Poems that will make you Laugh Out Loud). Available through Synergebooks from Christmas 2012. See http://www.shaneward.co.uk/Books.html