To the MODEL of a as a disease. Yes I can see plenty of use in that. My own version (this will be quite boring) is my electrician who was a man who did everything bad healthwise, got ill, got diagnosed with can't remember what, but I could ask him, and was told in one single swoop that he had to give up alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine, sugar, gluten, dairy, the list went on. I was fairly fascinated how he did it, and he just couldn't have been clearer. He did it because he had no choice whatsover. He wasn't happy with it, but he was philosophical. HE FELT (PROBABLY RIGHTLY) THAT HE HAD NO CHOICE. I get a gluten free flapjack for him; that is about the height of it for him these days.
I can use this as a help to me, especially with smoking. I tell myself that have the electricians's illness, and that I am going to have to put his philosophical head on. And I could do with doing more of this wrt smoking or I will be seeing my own doctor soon.
I went straight from hospital (wisdom teeth) to Clive's tut, as a massive favour to my partner, (obviously I should have been in bed after general anaesthetic) because otherwise she would have been in the room alone with Clive and she had terrifying Benny Hill forebodings. I was a crap feminist. I thought it was all hilarious. Too much David Lodge.