The Weekend is already Over....

Its Tuesday, so already ahead of the last weekend by miles (everything is relative, you see) and that too with no consumption of CO (carbon-monoxide) and Tar.
A supporting friend expressed of being proud on this. Obviously an overkill of an expression, but so what, I got the compliments :).

Now here is some "GYAN": As for CO and tar, I read somewhere that its not the nicotine itself which does all the damage but the carbon monoxide and the tar. Nicotine is responsible for the addiction part. Thats why the therapies for getting away from smoking involves application of Nicotine patches, which supplies nicotine to your addicted body but without the deadly combo of CO and tar. Obviously the nicotine supplies are reduced over a period of time (months may be).

Hmmm... but who knows you may get addicted to both the cigarettes as well as the patch :).

And yes I still get a lot of cravings specially whenever I see people smoking. Only thing I can do is to leave the place sooner before the urge takes all over.
Chewing a lot of gums, almost > 10 a day, it helps.

cya