I smoke virginia tobacco. Good and strong, full flavour. Marvelous stuff. They stopped printing the nicotine and tar contents on cigarette packets because 'lighter' cigarettes are not 'less bad' for you. "If you're going to do something, do it properly", this is a motto to live by.
Smoldering plant matter is carcinogenic. Nicotine is in some ways quite good for you. It has been linked to birth deformaties when used in pregnancy, and get some on your skin and it can kill you outright. But you can drown in an inch of water too if you try.
Smoking is part habit and part chemical addiction. In the last week and a half I've been addressing the habit side of it, with the idea of tackling the addiction later. Habits are behavioural patterns, one approach to changing them is to interrupt the pattern - when you notice you're doing something from habit, you force yourself to do something else until the pattern is broken. The theory says it takes at least 21 days to make or break a habit.
In the past, if I've planned to stop smoking, the addiction has fought back. So this time I'm not quitting. I was out getting a new power-supply for my computer, and as I passed the chemist I went in on the spur of the moment and got some 4mg nicotine chewing-gum.
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