They're fascinating tools indeed. I'm glad I got some of it right, even if I didn't get it's purpose in life.
To me, this is exactly the kind of in-depth questioning and focus that we need to do with our own quits. Ask questions of ourselves, then answer them. Don't just look at our addictive picture and assume - anything. I don't think you can break an addiction without doing that kind of in-depth study, thought, analysis. What am I craving, exactly? Why am I craving it (not just because it's a nicotine addiction); why do I keep failing at this? What do I need to do to get over the gerbil wheel of relapsing? What IS this thing I'm putting into my mouth, lighting up and inhaling? Etc....
Until ALL our focus is on quitting and the reasons why we smoke - we're unlikely to figure out the object of our addiction. Once we do, once we can name it, draw it, spell it, grasp it in a new way, we can begin to see it for it's real self. And when we see it for real, we then recognize what we've been doing to ourselves all these years. When we're shocked into a new awareness, when the light has been shone - we will never be happy smokers again. And that's ain't a bad thang!
PS - I KNEW that little hole had a purpose!
