> JUNKIE THINKING: "One Puff won't hurt"
> RESPONSE: "One puff will always hurt me, and it always will because I'm not
> a social smoker. One puff and I'll be smoking compulsively again."

> JUNKIE THINKING: "I only want one."
> RESPONSE: "I have never wanted only one. In fact, I want 20-30 a day, every
> day. I want them all."

> JUNKIE THINKING: "I'll just be a social smoker."
> RESPONSE: "I'm a chronic, compulsive smoker, and once I smoke one, I'll
> quickly be thinking about the next one. Social smokers can take it or leave
> it. That's not me!"

> JUNKIE THINKING: "I'm doing so well, one won't hurt me now."
> RESPONSE: "The only reason I'm doing so well is because I haven't taken the
> first one. Yet once I do, I won't be doing well anymore. I'll be smoking
> again."

> JUNKIE THINKING: "I really need to smoke now, I'm so upset (or depressed, or
> whatever)."
> RESPONSE: "Smoking is not going to fix anything. I'll still be upset or
> depressed or whatever, I'll just be an upset/depressed smoker. I never have
> to have a cigarette. Smoking is not a need, it's a want. Once the crisis is
> over, I'll be relieved and grateful I'm still not smoking."

> JUNKIE THINKING: "I'll just stop again."
> RESPONSE: "Sounds easy, but who am I trying to kid? Look how long it took me
> to stop this time. And once I start, how long will it take before I get sick
> enough to face withdrawal again? In fact, when I'm back in the grip of
> compulsion, what guarantee do I have that I'll ever be able to stop again?"

> JUNKIE THINKING: "If I slip, I'll keep trying."
> RESPONSE: "If I think I can get away with one little "slip" now I'll think I
> can get away with another little "slip" later on. And the slipping will get
> stronger and the trying will get weaker"

> JUNKIE THINKING: "I need one to get me through this withdrawal."
> RESPONSE: "Smoking will not get me through the discomfort of not smoking. It
> will only get me back to smoking. One puff stops the process of withdrawal
> and I'll have to go through it all over again."

> JUNKIE THINKING: "I miss smoking right now."
> RESPONSE: "Of course I miss something I've been doing every day for most
> of my life. But do I miss the chest pains right now? Do I miss the worry,
> the embarrassment? I'd rather be an ex-smoker with an occasional desire to
> smoke, than a smoker with a constant desire to stop doing it."

> JUNKIE THINKING: "I'm Bored"
> RESPONSE: Smoking is an "activity" or "something to do" only for smokers.
> I'm really not "doing" anything when I smoke except still sitting/standing
> there. The rest of the world survives occasional boredom quite well without
> inhaling life-challenging chemicals.

> JUNKIE THINKING: "But they've been smoking on TV and in the movies for
> years! There are even magazines devoted to tobacco products!
> RESPONSE: "That's right. They were on TV for years, I wasn't. I'm still
> alive; many of them aren't and they departed this vale of tears in prolonged
> and painful ways. And the smiling faces in the magazines now are risking
> painful and disfiguring surgery later, at which point they won't be smiling
> at all."

> JUNKIE THINKING: "It's so nice to go out for a 'breath of fresh air' and a
> cigarette."
> RESPONSE: "Fresh air? I've got to be kidding. And face it, sunny days are
> one thing, but how many days do I huddle out in the rain with the rain
> hitting the cigarette and turning the cigarette paper that disgusting yellow
> color? How many times is it windy and it takes forever to keep a match or
> lighter lit long enough to light the cigarette, and then how often does a
> gust of wind come up and blow the ashes into my eyes? And when it's icy
> outside, freezing my face off is bad enough, but when it defrosts, there's
> this bizarre yellow condensation around my nostrils. Now THAT'S attractive."

> JUNKIE THINKING: "Smoking makes work go faster."
> RESPONSE: "Most jobs where you work indoors are in companies which ban
> smoking in the workplace. Some companies won't hire me if I smoke. And every
> time I stop for a smoke it actually prolongs my work, since I'm not busy
> accomplishing it."

> JUNKIE THINKING: "Let's face it. I am a smoker. I always will be."
> RESPONSE: "The truth is that you're not a smoker. The only thing that smokes
> is the cigarette. You are the sucker though for falling for the belief that
> you cannot live without the habit of inhaling smoke. If everyone who
> believed at one time they were forever doomed to smoke then places like AS3
> would not exist."

> WISE UP!