Making excuses to smoke

Beware of the following excuses to smoke:

• Keeping a pack of cigarettes in the house
• Buying cheap tobacco ‘for friends’ while on holiday
• Lighting or holding other people’s cigarettes
• Getting so drunk that you forget you are trying to quit
• Sitting in smoking areas ‘just for a chat’
• Thinking that smoking ‘doesn’t count’ if:
  • It is a joint
  • It is an ultra-light cigarette
  • It is someone else’s cigarette
  • No-one sees you smoke it
  • You didn’t actually buy any cigarettes
  • You are on holiday
• Offering to ‘look after’ someone else’s cigarettes
• Thinking. ‘There’s so much smoke in here, I might as well smoke myself’
• When craving, going to see a smoking friend for a ‘heart to heart’
• Picking an argument with your partner or friend who smokes, knowing that in the end they will tell you to shut up and have a cigarette (and may be in a position to give you one)