Off to the new Just One Cigarette Blog

I have four new posts up at the other blog, or the new blog, including the 6 month challenge that unexpectedly unfolded today. Link is below:

Just One Cigarette

How Far Have Women Really Come with Cigarettes?

“They say that when Pall Malls were originally introduced, women took to them immediately because they felt the extra length made their noses look shorter. Maybe this thin cigarette similarly could be liked because it makes your hand look slimmer and more graceful. Immediately we felt we were dealing with a feminine idea: women are the stylish sex. There was a tactile distinctiveness too -- equally important and advantageous...” - Hal Weinstein, Vice President and Creative Director, Leo Burnett Company (‘How an Agency Builds a Brand - The Virginia Slims Story).

After years of smoking, it’s easy to have residual anger. Even now, I can't watch the first few seasons of Sex and the City without wanting to slap Sarah Jessica Parker in the face each time she shoves a Marlboro into her mouth. One would think that, as a producer of the show, she'd know better. But money must talk for her character's televised cigarette habit to last more than two seasons.

It’s difficult to soak in the facts, that of the ignorance the feminists of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s had when they permitted cigarette advertising in magazines such as Ms.
Sometimes I wonder what Gloria Steinem would have to say to the cigarette advertisements in Ms magazine. Other times I wonder why this bunch of ‘iconic’ female thinkers couldn’t really be bothered to go as far as to enlighten women about the poison that was packaged and advertised as the next best beauty product: the cigarette

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I, Anti-Smoker

There are days when I think that I have become one of the people I despised as a smoker - the vehement anti-smoker. Today was such a day.
Feelings come and go, I usually snap at Mr Live-In, whom I’ll call Nick, for his hardcore anti-smoking stance, to the point where he’ll verbally comment on the ‘disgusting smoke’ in a smoker’s presence. I’m much more easy going. Now I fear becoming like Nick. He’s the way he is because he has come full circle. It’s as though he has spent four decades of his life smoking, to open his eyes and see the wood for the tobacco plants.

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Smoking Cessation: The First 3 Days

"The big picture is trying to figure out why people smoke. There are a lot of health risks, and the majority of smokers already know what they are. They want to quit but can’t. It’s not because nicotine is a potent drug; it doesn’t induce significant amounts of pleasure or euphoria. Yet, it’s just as difficult if not more difficult to quit than other drugs.” - Matthew Palmatier, assistant professor of psychology at Kansas State University.

November 2008

On the second and third days after quitting, the headaches set in. My headaches had little to do with nicotine withdrawal. On the second day, shortly before midday on, my head pounded. I took to the sofa, hoping a fifteen minute nap would alleviate the symptoms, to remember that I hadn’t yet made an instant coffee. Normally I’d be up to my fourth or fifth cup of coffee at midday. My old self would have taken the easy route - sneaked to the tobacconist, paid for a fresh packet and regressed for the twentieth, thirtieth...(Who am I kidding when I’ve lost count?) time, get stuck in a routine that would see feeling like crap each morning, to venture out and experience commuters avoid sitting next to me on the bus.

Post continued on the new site.

Quitting on a Sunday | Life on the Monday

My new post Quitting on a Sunday | Life on the Monday is here.
I'm finding it easier with the Typepad blogging platform.

Typepad Version of Just One Cigarette

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A Brief Change

In regard to this blog, I'm going to try out Typepad as well, so I'll also be blogging from the below address:

http://justonecigarette.typepad.com

It's just that there are more page layout options with Typepad, and I'm not a Blogger whiz