Thread: The dog returns to its vomit, and fool to his folly

How I never took the cigarette habit is truly a mystery. Both of my parents' consumption of cigarettes was legendary. To this day I've never met anyone who smokes as much as my old man. My brother was once a fairly heavy cigarette smoker too (he's been reformed for probably 25 years or so.) Me, I dig tobacco in every other form but not cigarettes. Pipe smoking is probably my primary vehicle but I'll dip snuff without much provocation and recently have begun to dabble in cigars. I do enjoy large doses of vitamin N.

My bride, however smokes cigarettes. Your story reminded me of the two times she was pregnant. To her credit she quit both times as soon as she found out she was pregnant and never complained about it. She wanted to smoke something terrible though and in both cases, as soon as the child was delivered and safe, her first priority was to go smoke a cigarette. In both cases, she emerged light headed and sick and very disappointed that the first cigarette was nowhere near as good as she expected. After a little practice though she was right back in the groove. I never understood that...no wait yes I do, I habitually dip snuff and my first couple times I was sick as a damn dog.

Congrats Jimmy, good on you!
Not an easy snare to get out of in the first place, and you avoided it now. My uncle quit smoking once, lasted for 4 years until me and him was out hunting in the high mountains one fall some 20 years go. I pulled out a pack of small cigars and he asked for one. Initially I refused him, but after he argued cigars are nothing like cigarettes and you don't inhale, I gave him one. That's all it took for him to get hooked again, first thing he did when we got down was buy cigs.