Softly Dreaming Blog

At Puffs Fine Tobacco & Cigar shop of Ashland, I bought my first cigarettes in over twenty years. Why buy cigarettes and try smoking again? Curiosity is getting the better of me lately. I’m in a stage of re-examining my past judgments and supposed solid beliefs to see just where they stack up against who I am and want to be now, going forward. Anyway…so many of my attractive, intelligent new friends do and I would like to understand the motivation. Yes, it’s probably addiction…though some say it’s so much more. Could it be?

I spent a lot of time talking with the shop proprietor about smokes for a newbie, and he did agree with C that Nat Sherman Naturals are a good choice. However, he recommended as the most popular choice among the more refined American and imported cigarettes, the Imported “Dreams”, French Vanilla flavor. He also suggested I might start with a light & tiny flavored cigar…the “Happy Hour” peach and pina colada flavors were selected.

So, I gave them a try this Saturday night in private. It was a good time to try again, something to do to get my mind off a girl (there’s the “giving you something to do” argument covered) Yeah, well, I think I kinda need a little practice, even a lesson, on the smoking thing though…I still choked like crazy. But the French Vanilla did give me an interesting buzz…enough to have me try the peach cigar…it worked too. That’s how much I knew…nothing …didn’t know of the buzz and I can see where that might encourage trying again. However, I understand that that will go away after the 1^st pack…maybe if I parse them out a bit?

l must have been a sight. So glad it was very late, in place no one knows my name. Stupid to try smoking again wearing all black…the white ash, all over my pants. The smoke! God, there was so much smoke…right in my face. The smell and the taste…my clothes now smelled up all my leftover clean clothes in the suitcase, and I had to brush my teeth several times and it still wasn’t right…hence, the GUM! Shall I continue? You know though, these little sticks are expensive, so I may commit over time to smoke’em…but it won’t be pretty.

Mmmmm, that brings me back to my attractive friends…I never imagined myself “hanging out” with smokers, but I made the choice that they are worth it. So, I can see now how the social interaction of the activity could encourage the habit.

Of course, smoking has always encouraged social interaction, but now a form of it has a “coined name”…the art of ”smirting”…the apparent pastime of smokers “flirting” outside public places in which smoking is not allowed. That’s another reason in favor of it. You can read more about the “smirting “(old, but new again) phenomenon here-

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article2215960.ece

I’ll post now and then more on both the for and against arguments on smoking. I’ll let you know too how many are left in my packs.

Challenge me with your thoughts on the habit.

The Affable Imp.

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