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Aug. 26th, 2008 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
d_aulnoyAaaaaaaaaaand, 8 hours and counting ... I do not particularly want a cigarette. Keep in mind, I'm addicted enough that I usually start to get vaguely antsy around the 1 hour mark, but these are okay: the only bad things are that I, a) kinda miss my lighter, b) think cold "smoke" is a freakish, sfnal thing, and c) cannot actually tell how much I have "smoked." Let me explain ....
Tapering actual tobacco cigarettes sucks in terms of willpower, but isn't that bad in terms of ... knowledge, as one knows exactly how many cigarettes one has smoked in the course of a day. The MCs, on the other hand, are great because one doesn't have the completist urge to finish smoking the last third of a cigarette that one has grown tired of: one just takes a few puffs and puts it down. On the other hand, one doesn't really know how many puffs one has left (as opposed to with a normal, needs-to-be-ashed-occasionally cigarette), so one can get ... antsy, especially on one's first cartridge: after all, while it's great to quit smoking cigarettes and not worry about tar and carcinogens and all that, it would be massively ironic to then keel over because of a massive influx of pure nicotine.
Having e-mailed the nice people at the MC company to figure out how many cartridges equal a pack, I now feel less freaked out about switching to a new cartridge: according to them, a pack of cigarettes a day is equivalent to two or three cartridges (depending on how deeply you tend to suck at your cigarettes, apparently). So, so long as I stay at 2 cartridges a day or less, I can feel that I am right with The Force ....
Tapering actual tobacco cigarettes sucks in terms of willpower, but isn't that bad in terms of ... knowledge, as one knows exactly how many cigarettes one has smoked in the course of a day. The MCs, on the other hand, are great because one doesn't have the completist urge to finish smoking the last third of a cigarette that one has grown tired of: one just takes a few puffs and puts it down. On the other hand, one doesn't really know how many puffs one has left (as opposed to with a normal, needs-to-be-ashed-occasionally cigarette), so one can get ... antsy, especially on one's first cartridge: after all, while it's great to quit smoking cigarettes and not worry about tar and carcinogens and all that, it would be massively ironic to then keel over because of a massive influx of pure nicotine.
Having e-mailed the nice people at the MC company to figure out how many cartridges equal a pack, I now feel less freaked out about switching to a new cartridge: according to them, a pack of cigarettes a day is equivalent to two or three cartridges (depending on how deeply you tend to suck at your cigarettes, apparently). So, so long as I stay at 2 cartridges a day or less, I can feel that I am right with The Force ....