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  • yes! i'm with you. the double standard is a blessing and a curse. but fighting it is often as complicated as living with it. i'm reminded of the advertising campaigns...
  • I appear to have substituted snacking for smoking, unfortunately. (No one has to point out oral fixations...) Sitting outside with a cup of coffee, a pack of Marlboros...
  • Love this. A cigarette break is the opposite of a social media break...I absolutely agree! There is a typewriter that's available now that is a computer but operates s...
  • While I do dislike having the characters described in minute detail, and I especially detest it when each character is described using the same technique (whatever tha...
  • When I (finally) stopped smoking I made time for breaks as much like a cigarette break as possible... w/o the ciggy... I stepped outside; I chewed pencils; I talked with people; I read something non- work related. I planned for this and it all helped.
  • I think it's great. I love the cigarette hanging out of her mouth
  • I would think about this a lot more if I had time! Between my anthology project with S...EALLY SELF PUBLISHING," I would say, rushing through the rest..."it's a hybrid model, very cutting-edge." Now I'm...
  • I understand this syndrome very well. I quit smoking 12 years ago. I did find a healthy substitute, though, that allowed me to get the dreaming/plotting/visualizing, e...