[alphageek31337]

Also, I need to add my experience with nicotine addiction and the idea that smokers need to smoke more and more tobacco every day in order to sassify* the craving. In short, I call bullshit. I've been smoking for about 4 years now, and I've found that while you are, indeed, addicted to a front-brain stimulant (one of the stronger addictions, similar to cocaine, meth, amphetamines and such), smoking is as much about habit and rhythm as it is about dosing yourself with a chemical. When I get out of bed in the morning, I have about 30-45 minutes until I want a cigarette. After a meal, without fail, I get a very strong craving for a cigarette. When I decide to turn in, I almost always have one last cigarette and check my email one last time before I call it a day (or call it a night, as is more often the case). There are others throughout the day of course, more or less randomly (though traveling in an automobile is also a fairly strong trigger, and I usually have one as I walk across the parking lot to go into work), but there isn't the kind of escalation that wolf seems to be indicating as ubiquitous to the nature of addiction. It's a rare (and usually quite shitty) day that I smoke more than 10-12 cigarettes.