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Some say cigarettes are very enjoyable. They aren’t. They are filthy, disgusting objects. Ask any smoker who thinks he smokes only because he enjoys a cigarette if, when he hasn’t got his own brand and can only obtain a brand he finds distasteful, he stops smoking? Smokers would rather smoke old rope than not smoke at all.
The thing that makes it difficult for us to quit is fear. The fear that we are being deprived of our pleasure or prop. The fear that certain pleasant situations will never be quite the same again. The fear of being unable to cope with stressful situations.
It’s not so much that we enjoy them, but that we tend to be miserable without them.
Why do smokers brag about how little they smoke?
With drug addiction you get progressively more hooked, not less. You think it will be easier tomorrow? You’re still kidding yourself.