(February 5, 2014 at 12:39 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: After 6 days of cold turkey, I think I'm over the physical addiction. All I'm left with is kicking the habit - those times when I would have a smoke just out of custom more than anything.
I don't think beating the physical addiction is as simple as that, because mental triggers can always cause a physical craving, at least that's been my experience. Sure, you won't feel that withdrawal sickness, but you still have to deal with physical temptation.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
