with me the stimulant properties of smoking i find helpful, i can cope with diarrhea however horrible but constipation i find horrendous, possibly because i have a number of adhesions..
i'm also with jessica on this in that those five minutes of sitting/standing with a cigarette seem to help relieve stress.. of course i realize that the stress release is probably the 5 minutes of peace but there is something in lighting a ciggie, taking a breath and thinking "now relax"..
i guess we all know, or at least should know, the risks associated with smoking and any smoker would be a fool to think they are somehow immune from those risks.. i guess you have to way up your own personal odds when making that choice of whether to, or not to, smoke..