Someone write me THIS response:

[scyllacat]

Really, why do you think you need to "completely eliminate" cigarettes from your diet? Do you not realize that it's the feeling of deprivation that makes "no-smoking" diets fail over and over again? And seriously, you need to have a little fun and not be so hard on yourself.

Comments

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

What is "fun" about smoking? I can see where it salves the aching monkey-brain of addiction and habit, and I can see where, like getting together for a drink, it can act as a focus for socialization, but really... "fun"? You're lighting a wad of dried, chemically-enhanced leaves that don't even give off a cheery flame, but instead smolder, and you're sucking in the smoke and blowing it out again, and flicking ashes.

I can think of more fun things to do with a lighter. More destructive, perhaps, but definately more fun. Preferably also involving pyrotechnics.

[senselessviolnz.livejournal.com]

I think they were making fun of some of the language in diet commercials.

[splunge.livejournal.com]

Nicotine is a stimulant. So are 'diet pills'. Stimulants cause more calories to be burned, so smoking *is* beneficial to those wanting to lose weight.

Its just that pesky lung cancer....

[argh-jim.livejournal.com]

This is why God invented coffee... and they keep discovering new benefits as they go.

[flyswatter.livejournal.com]

Aw, I wrote a response to your last post and then thought about it and I hate it when people tell me what to do. I'm sorry. Please disregard.

Nothing to forgive

[scyllacat.livejournal.com]

No problem, sweetheart. So far, you're the only one who seems to have gotten the point of THIS post. At least you provided a link and experiential reference.

[sugared-redhead.livejournal.com]

Honey do you really want ME to go over your diet and smoking with you?
If you are feeling really itchy come overand let me work on you.

[grizzlydan.livejournal.com]

Do you want my militant anti-smoking response or my more gentle, conciliatory response? The second may make me work harder.

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

I am so over giving diet advice. :)

First of all, most people don't want it (even the ones who ask for it, a lot of the time, and I noticed that you didn't ask for advice). Secondly, what works for some people doesn't work for others. And third, I do agree that the deprivation is true, to an extent, but everyone doesn't feel "deprived" by cutting out the same things.

[happi-feet.livejournal.com]

Try switching to toothpicks. No calories. It worked for me.