I need a cigarette again!!!!

[Taverner]

Lately I've been smoking 1 a day...being good and not going overboard.

Except right now I'm working from home - and there are no co-workers to bum one off of....

ARRRRRGHHHH!!!

[CottonBear]

1. Chew gum, drink some coffee, walk around the block...

you can resist! I know it's tough. Have you tried the gum? It helped me during the initial cravings period. Hang in there!

[jobycom]

2. DON'T DO IT, JIM!!

Sorry, LSD Star Trek flashbacks.

Which is odd, since I never did LSD...

[DS1]

3. Well, not having one to bum is the good news

It'll go away.

[SarahB]

4. Don't even start!

:spank:

[Taverner]

6. But their so goooood

I love to smoke their creamy center!

STOP IT!

YOU COVETED MY ICE CREAM BAR!!!!

sorry...lost in a bit of Space Madness there...

[SarahB]

12. It's substitution...

You needs yourself a woman! :evilgrin:

[Hugin]

5. When I felt the urge... One of my coworkers offered to gut punch me.

He said it has the same end result.

[bicentennial_baby]

7. Awwww

Hugs for you, baby...:hug:

[billyskank]

8. Smoking one a day? You may as well quit!

You're torturing yourself for no benefit! You are ensuring that you feel more or less constant withdrawal (if you quit totally it subsides after a couple of weeks), whilst at the same time enjoying none of the health benefits that quitting totally will bring. Go on, there is no point whatsoever in smoking one a day. Make the final step! You can do it!

[Misunderestimator]

9. You cannot smoke one a day... you remain addicted to nicotine.

I don't mean to sound absolute, but there it is. You cannot have one cigarette a day and expect the addiction to not get worse. I stopped for 8 years once... and why did I start again? One puff of one cigarette at one party... after a year... back to smoking regularly.

Smoking one a day is worse than going cold-turkey... you LIVE for the one cigarette and feel constantly deprived since you can't have another.

13th day without nicotine for me. ;)

[MrScorpio]

10. No you don't

Do something else instead

[BikeWriter]

11. You need to breathe air, too! Read this about Emphysema:

"Cigarette smoking is by far the most common cause of emphysema."
http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=35043

[wryter2000]

13. Don't do it

The craving will go away. I promise. Don't pay them your good money to kill you!

[caty]

14. It takes 14 days for nicotine

to leave your system completely. When you smoke that 1 you have to start that 14 day period all over again. If you want to be a non smoker--stop it!!!:spank:

[Hugin]

15. Same for the Carbon Monoxide...

Which does much more harm to your circulatory system by blocking
off the oxygen carrying part of your red blood cells.

Takes a long time to finally reach normal levels.