I switched to them fancy modern "electronic cigarettes", aka nicotine inhalers, whatever you want to call them.
Battery, steam-generator, reservoir of liquid, my nicotine fix is now tar, carbon-monoxide, almost all-nasty-free.
I actually enjoyed smoking, but after a few colleagues at work switched to the electric things, and seemed happy with it, I decided to give it a go for the simple expedient of money. After the initial investment into the equipment, the cost of my nicotine habit is down from about a fiver a day to a fiver a week. That's some serious moolah.
I haven't bought cigarettes in two weeks, and I smoked the last one I had in the last open pack I still had about ten days ago. Don't miss it.
There are some downsides, like no longer being able to use the time it takes to smoke a cigarette as a handy timing device, the electric cigarettes need to be plugged in for recharging and if you drag to hard, you end up spilling the liquid stuff everywhere.
But there#s a tradeoff with everything.
The liquid stuff is available in many flavors, like Tobacco, Strawberry, Applea, Peaches, Winston cigarettes, Camel, Malbolo (that's what it says on the bottle, I swear), even Mary Jane (again, that's what it says on the bottle).
Oddly enough, you can even get it nicotine-free, though I don't quite see the point in that.
Haven't noticed any weight gain or change in my eating habits from giving up the old coffin nails.
Just as an FYI, these electric thingies are worth a try. If you stick with it for a few weeks, they pay for themselves in the money you save on tobacco.
Technically, smoking-prohibitions shouldn't apply to these things, but since anti-smoker-activists are these days more concerned with punishing smokers for their moral degeneracy rather than actually protecting non-smokers from anything, I wouldn't bank on it.
This is what they look like:
The little mouthpiece/liquid-reservoir things at the top right can be refilled. The charger plugs into a USB connector on the computer or the usual adaptors for wall outlets or in-car cigarette-lighters.
Dunno if they are sold in the States, but if you want to save money and/or quit smoking for health reasons, I recommend you try these things. They also don't smell like burnt tobacco does, and you don't have smelly ashtrays to deal with.
