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"Just One More Thing": Columbo, Nicotine, Quitting Quitting, and the Second Mrs. de Winter

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"Just One More Thing": Columbo, Nicotine, Quitting Quitting, and the Second Mrs. de Winter

Daniel Lavery
Aug 28, 2019
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"Just One More Thing": Columbo, Nicotine, Quitting Quitting, and the Second Mrs. de Winter

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There’s something about nicotine in particular – cigarettes, nicotine gum, those flat squat vapes that send a perfect little credit-card-shaped burst of cold pink steam into your lungs with every puff-and-click, whichever – where trying to come off it makes me feel like the second Mrs. de Winter within about six hours: mousy, befogged, paranoid, hyperse…

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