Only smoke when you can really get into it. This stuff about stepping outside when its 20 degrees outside and windy is bullshit. Smoke only when you can sit down, be warm and take your time. Each cigarette has its own personality. Get to know it.
Lite cigarettes are okay, but if you can handle it smoke full flavor. Full flavor kings. This is the classic John Wayne cancer cause. Get a full lungful of heavy smoke you can FEEL. Keeps you in touch with your habit. If you're gonna smoke. SMOKE.
Menthol, don't do it. Eat a mint if you're that concerned. If you smoke menthol because you don't like the taste of regulars, stop smoking. There's a reason people don't drink mint coffe, dig?
Soft packs rule. You'd think it was practical to get your cigarettes in a solid bank safe type box so you don't squish them or break them, but it really makes no difference. The only advantage to buying a box is that you pick up a pack and shake it to see if there are any left at the end of a heavy drinking night. But that's it. Soft packs howvere, will fit in your pocket and shape themselves to the curve of your hip. It's love. Affection. And if you master the trickof getting a cigarette out of your soft pack with the flip of a wrist...man...nothing can stop you. I've only ever broken but a few by sitting on them in a soft pack.
Accept that cigarettes are really bad for you. They have two goeals in life: make you relaxed and feel cool....and to kill you. If you accept that they are as evil as Nazi's, you'll be less inclined to miss them when they aren't around.
Don't be stingy. Give that last cigarette to a person who really needs it. If you only have a couple left and someone bums from you, don't start that "dude, I've only got a couple left" bullshit. Those things are going to kill you. The less you smoke, the better. Give 'em away, they make more everyday and the needy will love you forever.
There are a million inhailing tricks. Grease introduced us all to the French Inhale. But there really is only one that is necessary: The Humphry Bogart Chick. Put the stick to your lips, pull heavy and get a thick mouthful of the drug. Open your mouth slightly so that just a little escapes, then suck it all back in and swallow it. Hold it. Let it out slow. God....that makes me want to fuck. The real trick is to make it look effortless. All those other tricks are just circus acts for pre-teens trying to impress the school bully. They won't get you laid.
Stick by these simple rules and you'll find that smoking doesn't have to be just a bad habit. It can be a hobby, and passion and, most importantly, cool as fuck. So, keep practicing, and love your vices. They love you.
-- Mike www.thevoltasound.com