I still smoke. My two addictions are coffee and nicotine. Rational arguments? I've heard them all. Emotional appeals? I've heard them all. Fact is, I don't mind it. I've done the typical delusional thing of justifying it as medicinal (substituting for some unknown [x] medicine that I *probably* should be on instead] but ultimately I know I do it because I do it. == The #1 one thing I hear from people who find out I smoke is: "You don't look like a smoker". I don't look like one. I don't act like one. I don't 'think like one'. But then again, I'm up all hours of the night. I have strange sleep patterns. I have vivid dreams. My brain goes 100 miles an hour. I furiously write 110wpm at the keyboard and I can make lateral connections faster than a set of magnetic trains on parallel tracks that are too close and the cars JUMP off each others tracks, meet in the middle and suddenly fly away as somebody just turned gravity off. I'd probably be like that anyway but I think it keeps me off of other medications and bad habits that I'd likely substitute it with. [justification === Very much smile emoticon Maybe with health insurance I'd find out something more proper. Probably some kind of ADD medicine I guess or anti-anxiety.. But outside of a brief stint with Lorazapam in my 20s, and even then I only took it rarely, I have yet to enter the wold of pharmacopia == It also keeps people away from me. I like my space tongue emoticon