You make a good point. However I don't think there have been many times I've not wanted to go get smokes. Like it could be 20 below and I'm still just fine to run to the store and grab a pack.
Are you sure you're okay with making a special trip to the store, or is that insistent tugging on your shorthairs just convincing you it's okay? I used to run out of cigs, have to go catch two buses (about 90 minutes) to the shop, late night in rain, then another 90 minutes back, just so I could chainsmoke 6 cigarettes before bed....and yes, I'd talk myself into 'thinking' it was okay, but after 10+ years free, I know that was a bunch of self-delusional BS. When the master cracks the whip, its easy to convince oneself the demands are perfectly reasonable, especially considering the alternative. I sat down once, and added up all the time I wasted like that, and all the money it took to appease the addiction. That was the beginning of the end. I loved clove cigs, but the price was too high.
holy shit 90 minute?!? Thats a long ass time just for a pack of smokes. I can walk to the store in 10 minutes if I want to and drive in about 5. If it took that long I would plan accordingly and stock up.
I know people that would plan their day around the possibility that they would run out. They were fun to hang out with as they always knew where the convenience stores were.
I knew smokers that would hide packs of cigs everywhere for when they ran out, then have a scavenger hunt. I used to, til I spent a few hours tearing up everything trying to find a pack, only to have to go out anyway for a three hour trip to the tobacco shop.
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