Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:39:06 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

basskisser wrote:
Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:

I stopped smoking cigars for a couple of years and hated every minute
of it. Finally, I quit even trying - it's ingrained in my soul.

That's called addiction. I know, I was there. When I quit smoking, with
the aids to help, after the pills they gave me were over, I craved a
smoke for a couple of years after. Still, even though it stinks
horribly, and I can tell a person smokes no matter how careful they are
to not get it on there clothes, etc., I sometimes see someone light up
after a meal or something, and I think, damn that would be nice. It's a
fleeting moment these days, however, and I never give in.

I haven't smoked in many many years, and yet I still get cravings when I
see someone light up after a mean or catch a whiff of fresh smoke
walking outside.

I think the smell of smoke on someone who has been smoking smells like
****, but I still like the smell of a cigarette. It shows you how
strong the addiction is.

I really am amused by this - addiction - HAH!!

You wouldn't know addiction if it bit you in the ass.

No offense intended you understand - just a turn of phrase.

Really, you don't think that a stinking nasty habit that is "ingrained
in your soul" is addiction? Do you not think that smoking IS addictive?

http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact09.html
which states:
Is nicotine addictive?

In February 2000, the Royal College of Physicians published a report on
nicotine addiction which concluded that "Cigarettes are highly
efficient nicotine delivery devices and are as addictive as drugs such
as heroin or cocaine." [1] Two years earlier, the report of the
Government's Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health stated that:
"Over the past decade there has been increasing recognition that
underlying smoking behaviour and its remarkable intractability to
change is addiction to the drug nicotine. Nicotine has been shown to
have effects on brain dopamine systems similar to those of drugs such
as heroin and cocaine". [2] Both the RCP and SCOTH reports confirmed
the findings of the landmark review by the US Surgeon General in 1988
on nicotine which also concluded that cigarettes and other forms of
tobacco are addicting and that nicotine is the drug in tobacco that
causes addiction.