"street drugs"... substitute cigarettes for paper work purposes

i'm baaaack. and still a non smoker.and still challenged and silly and awed.  i have been taking a weekly class that concentrates on relearning coping mechanisns and developing methods to either avoid painful stimulis or to meet it face on.  now there's alot of elements to this theory. some people are dealing with addiction, some are sucidal.  some are just so angry and resentful at the world that it takes alot of attention and out of the box thinking.  so here's my point.  we keep an individual daily diary that has headings for actions.  i've crossed out "street drug usage, or cravings" i substitue smoking cigarettes.  some people in the room take object, but i think i could make a case for smokes as street drugs.what's remarkable is that over one year later, i have a daunting number of check marks in the craving column.  even more sometimes than the people craving heroin or meth.  i believe in my soul that i will stay a nonsmoker.  it smell awful to me....even in an open air restaraunt.  my smoking friends look tired and jaundiced.  but to deal with a nictione addicion in the same venue with the same format as for suicides, meth addicts, bulimics, cutters isn't a crazy idea.  nonsmokers may hold theselve in higher esteem. legal."socially acceptable" (debatable).   but we're all stuggling; giving up our cruch, or onr true friend, our means for escape.  so let's not lose sigh of how hard nicotine addiction is to break or judge ourself as above any one dealin with any sustance.  let's just all support and encouage each other.  for me it WAS a marlboro light for others it's a needle.  let's just encourage each other and never loss sight that ther by the grace of g-d go i