Bought a pack of smokes yesterday

[absyntheNsugar]

After not smoking for 3 years.

Only smoked one....can I actually keep myself at one every so often?

[brainwashed_youth]

1. sure

I bought a pack of Newports yesterday and I only smoke when I'm at school. It's possible.

[Fleshdancer]

2. I'm not the best person to answer this, but I'm guessing no.

Mainly because my husband couldn't.

But I'm a non-smoker so what do I know? sorry.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. No...throw it out now while you are still not smoking!

It takes far less time to get readdicted than it did to get unhooked.

Suck on a plastic straw!

[disgruntled_goat]

4. ive seen it done

I used to work in a corner store where we sold single cigs for $0.25.
a lot of people would buy the singles specifically to help them smoke less.

so maybe get a little cheapie silver cig case and only carry a few wit ya?

good luck with that.

[delete_bush]

5. No. You made a preemptive attack on a pack

of cigarettes. I hear it is hard to stop once started. An intervention, perhaps by the U.N., is required.

[Wonco_the_Sane]

6. No you can't

O.K. I hope you can cuz I slip to two packs a week right back to a pack a day. :( Hope you do better. Hell, you quit once! I'm at a half a pack a day now and wish you good luck.

[absyntheNsugar]

7. I've quit several times

actually..it's staying quit thats the problem

I just smoked one (that makes 2) and now I'm feeling a little sick

so maybe that wil help

[kixot]

8. Move to smoking a pipe.

The ritual ensued in smoking a pipe will keep it to an occasional thing and since the smoke is just tasted rather inhaled it won't hit you as potently causing you to crave it less often.

[AngryYoungMan]

9. THROW THEM OUT!!!!

I smoked a pack a day for ten years. I quit nine years ago and it was the hardest thing I've ever done.

You CAN'T have "just one." It doesn't work that way. You know about Brown & Williamson and the 60 minutes scandal in 94? The only time the tobacco industry caved? Because they're chemically changing the cigs to make them more addictive.

Cigarettes are capitalism at its rawest and most evil. For ideological, health, and all other reasons, THROW THEM OUT!

[DS1]

10. dump em,

or give them to a stranger or friend, if they are there, they will eventually get smoked, and after 20, chances are you'll want another pack, cigarrettes are as addictive as commas, don't you know?

[arwalden]

11. I Kind Of Enjoy My Bragging Rights And Being Able To Say...

"Smoke-Free for two years."
"Haven't smoked in 24 months."

By having just one cigarette, my bragging calendar would have to be reset back to ZERO DAYS!

-- Allen

[ET Awful]

14. I'm almost to the two year mark myself. . . .

May 23 will be two years.

I no longer miss it at all really.

[LoZoccolo]

12. I have heart disease...

...and had found this out after my heart going into arrythmia and ending up in the hospital. This was after smoking for less than two years after quitting for three, at first casually.

I was 27 years old.

Please, don't even try to keep yourself at one every once in a while.

[Habibi]

13. Depends

Myself, I "quit" smoking 3 years ago, but when I visit my best friend, I indulge in her Tijuana Smalls (thinnish, filtered cigars). The thing is, I don't feel deprived when I go back home--I think cigars don't have the same manipulated levels of nicotine and other drugs that cigarettes have, so I don't get re-addicted, and yet I enjoy smoking those little buggers.

I've had one puff of a cigarette during this time and was amazed at how powerful the desire to return to smoking was after that. Haven't wanted another since.

[Lost4words]

15. there is a brand in New Mexico with zero additives,

I am totally against tobacco but this might be a lesser evil.

[kmla]

16. Dunno. Hopefully you can.

but the bigger question is, "Why?"

Do you need them? Especially knowing what they will and can do to you? It is my personal belief that life is a pretty damn fine thing. I intend on living it as long as I can, and not participating in things that are pretty much proven to shorten it (in most cases, drastically).

I hope you find the will power to toss the rest of the pack. It will be much better for you if you do. And if you can't, I hope someday you will. Because there is really nothing good in that pack that you will find. And I am pretty sure there won't be anything good in the next pack, or the next one....

Good Luck to you.

[LynneSin]

17. NOPE

My dad thought he'd be ok if he'd cut back to just a couple a week.

He still ended up dying of Lung Cancer.

I don't want that happening to you!!!

[Liberal Christian]

18. I never could

Every time I quit smoking, all it took was one cigarette to get me back.

I've been a non-smoker now since 1990. I don't dare even take a hit off someone else's, even though I want to about twice a year.