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Do you feel you choose to smoke every time you light-up?

[DanaC]

It's a false choice if it's driven by a physical craving. I would say I do and don;t choose. I can be very conflicted at the point of actually buying or lighting cigarettes. I can't even begin to try and explain to you what that actually feels like, or how that manifests in my thought processes, because it's a very in-time thing, and is one of the few states of mind, that I find myself in and am unable fully to understand.

A false choice, what is that?
I smoked cigs for a while, and was addicted. I still chose to smoke every one I purchased and lit, just like I chose not to smoke when I did. It was hard, a hard choice.
Addiction is not a choice, to give into it is a choice, every time.

[DanaC]

I doubt your addiction was as strong, given that you are able to smoke small amounts of tobacco without returning to cigarette addiction. I am of the "one drink is enough" category of addiction when it comes to cigarettes:P

Yes it is a choice. But, choices are made in the brain, and the brain's chemistry is altered by nicoteine addiction. The urge is both physical and psychological.