Posted by Bilbo on November 2, 2009, 12:43:12, in reply to "Something new today"
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Yeah, don't repeat it tomorrow unless you really feel like you need to again. If it becomes a habit then it really won't be too long before you do need to every day. I did that and now I do absolutely need two when I get out of bed, and I really don't even feel properly satisfied till I've had my third one right after I get out of the shower, and often need to chain two, probably more often than I have just one, and very occasionally even three during the day now.
For me I wouldn't actually say it a bad thing - I love smoking my cigarettes, weird as it might sound I even enjoy being very addicted, and I'm perfectly comfortable and happy to be a moderately heavy smoker (about 24 on weekdays and usually nearly thirty at weekends), and being addicted to smoking that many I've got the perfect excuse to carry on smoking a silly number of ciga a day, but I am acutely aware that if I'd maybe exercised a little more self control earlier, I probably could have been just as happy and comfortable, and healthier and richer being a somewhat lighter smoker.
And switching up to stronger cigarettes basically never works to keep your smoking down for more than a few weeks. Once you get used to the higher amount of nicotine it can even intensify the addiction, and mean you need more full strengths than you did lights.
If you are enjoying doing it how you are doing it, just smoking when the cravings stop being fun and start getting nasty, you'll find over time you're smoking will probably creep up over time, but I think part of the fun is in letting that slowly happen.
--Previous Message--
: I have been smoking since
: Feb. I smoke Marlboro
: lights, and around 4-5
: day. It has been a
: comfortable level. I do
: crave it throughout the
: day, but can hold off.
: It may sound strange but
: I actually like the
: cravings.
:
: Well this morning, I had
: my first of the day, and
: when I was done, I felt
: very strange. My body
: was telling me I wasn't
: done. This was the first
: time I had ever smoked
: two in a row like that.
: I just couldn't stop.
:
: Over the past few weeks,
: I have been really
: thinking about going to
: Marlboro Reds, thinking
: I would like the boost
: in Nicotine.
:
: I wonder if the intense
: urge to smoke two has
: something to do with
: that desire, or if my
: body is just ready to
: move up?
:
:
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