The following fantasy had great appeal to me back in the day: We close friends - tortured, creative, young, exuberant, inquisitive, out to make our mark on the world - meet at a dark coffee shop, cigarettes ablaze, each individual holding forth, till the wee hours, perhaps till dawn, reluctant to leave in our separate cars, exhilarated... Read more
If you've been contemplating quitting smoking of late and you live alone, put cigarette realness in your face - so to speak. Save a favorite ashtray full of butts; don't dump this toxic treasure, spiriting it out of sight as though it never happened. It does happen and it's been a very real part of your life for some years now, hasn't it? OK.... Read more
I had a bad dream last night: collective human excrement seeped from an overflowing toilet inside a tiny rickety shack covering the floor in broad daylight as well-dressed impatient embarrassed parent figures accompanied by important friends with frozen, disapproving smiles, awaited my delayed emergence as I anxiously searched for decent... Read more
If your initial seduction re: smoking cigarettes, a pipe, a cigar, or even sniffing snuff has long gone away, then why haven't you stopped? Rather than a mindless repetition of a behavior that one could -- with minor annoyance -- change, i.e., dump, you most likely keep smoking due to a powerful cellular addiction to nicotine,... Read more
I suspect halting an addiction to cigarettes (and other drugs, for that matter) happens most effectively, solidly, enduringly when an individual experiences (develops) a gut-level revulsion (aversion) for same in this respect: he or she emotionally and intellectually catapults (or gradually pushes) cigarette smoking into the same arena as... Read more
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