[Abhorsen]

Originally Posted by Alpertinator

He's probably a social smoker who smokes so very rarely, like me. He's quite a stubborn person, and seems to kind of have this attitude of "I'm in control nothing can take over me", thus he probably doesn't allow cigarettes to get the better of him, like me. At the moment, I'll like have a few (less than 10) smokes within a month at the most, but I went the whole of June without smoking. John James is like me sometimes he fancies havin' a smoke but it's not important to him, and beyond that he doesn't rely on it, and doesn't crave it.

Why the need to prove it? I don't feel a compelling need to *prove* I'm not a raving alcoholic to *prove* I'm in 'control' of my life.

Sounds a bit like over compensation, if you need to prove it then you don't have it.