Dagger of the Mind

Day seven without a cigarette. The image of a white paper tube stuffed with North Carolina tobacco glazed in non-flammable glue stabs at the mind's eye. I feel like I have lost something deeply personal. Jouisssance that I will never regain. I will truly have quit smoking when I realize that even if I started smoking again, I could never regain it.

- from the diary of 44th President of the United States of American Barack Hussein Obama II, 14 March 2010