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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete
What is it about writing that makes a person crave a cigarette? I've been off cigarettes for almost 8 months now, but the last few weeks have left me really wanting some, with me relapsing a couple of times. I'm meeting with a friend to go over her essay (not a euphemism, I'll be editing an essay she wrote) as well as write an article for my school paper and I have a feeling I'm going to stop by the gas station and pick up a pack. I keep on trying to reason it with myself like how if I smoke in moderation it won't be so bad, or how I've been under a lot of stress and been really unhappy with my life lately, but I still feel incredibly weak.
Writing was going to be the activity that got me away from drinking a 6-pack every evening, but all it seems to have done is helped me change up one vice for another.
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I'm not sure, bud, but if you can avoid the smokes. Don't make your relapses full-on. You're that far past smoking, I bet this is just an incidental struggle. One or two, yeah, that's acceptable, but if you buy the pack it's going to snowball moreso, right? Best of luck.
I'm still trying to quit smoking, but I keep getting bummed smokes. I have money, I keep rationalizing that if I keep bumming them I might as well buy a pack and ration, but if I buy that pack, then by the time I finish I'll bum again and then buy another. I need to cut if straight off. I went 12 hours without one ... sleep + 4 hours and thought that was incredible because I wasn't fiending, but as soon as one came around I burnt through it. And now I want another. Slippery slope.
Power to us.