20 Hours

20 hours smoke free so far. Let me tell you, it hasn't been as easy as I thought it'd be. Well, I didn't think it'd be easy, but I didn't expect the cravings this bad. Makes me wonder how much nicotine is added to cigarettes, besides whatever occurs naturally. Makes me wonder how someone came up with the idea of smoking tobacco in the first place. I mean, how do you think of things like that?

"Hey Jim, lets take these leaves, dry them out, shred them, roll them up in paper, and inhale the resulting smoke through a cotton filter?"

Who thinks like that? Tobacco companies, I guess.

Actually, now that I think about it, smoking is rather elitist, in a manner. I mean, the smoker is inhaling the "safer" smoke through the filtered end, while the "second hand" smoke dissipates in the general public. Even factories are required to filter their toxic output.

Now don't get me wrong. I'm not going to turn into a rabid anti-smoker. You know the ones, the ones who used to smoke and try to convince you to quit by vomiting on about the money you'll save, the cancer risks, and how much longer you'll live if you quit right now. I could care less if you smoke or not, unless you're on oxygen. Then you really shouldn't be smoking, but if you're on oxygen, you're probably like in your 80's or so, so you haven't really got much longer to live anyways, so... hell, light up.