I’ve been smoking for 20 years now, usually averaging about 10 sticks a day. Two years ago, my smoking started escalating to almost one pack a day, probably due to increased stress levels at work and at home. I’m spiraling down to the kind of nicotine craving that gets me up at night to scour the dark nooks and crannies for a stick.
This has got me worried. All the stress combined with difficulty breathing, back pain in the mornings and constant need for a nicotine fix after every activity cannot be good things.
So short of buying “magic” nicotine-inhibiting drugs whose prices are prohibitive anyway, I’ve resorted to buying slim-sized sticks in the interim. I assume a pack of this would be equivalent to half a pack of the normal-sized ones. I plan to limit consumption to 3/4, then half, then eventually a few sticks here and there. There is a desire to prove myself able to control the addiction by myself. If all else fails, there’s always the nicotine-inhibitor pills. Wish me luck.
