Cigarettes
Chain smoked so many cigarettes Saturday night and Sunday morning that I haven't taken a single drag for 36 hours. For the most part, I haven't wanted to, and when I have, the desire has been slight enough to avoid the Tabak. I may have ended up quitting, although I imagine I'll continue to smoke every once in a while. Completely unintended
Despite his written philosophy, I see him as too invested in the stature of his own ego to do anything which might compromise it. I picture him smoking a pipe and that's about it.
Very hard to find good writings on drug experiences. I don't do drugs and it's not a topic of particular interest for me, but I nevertheless have kept an eye open for conceptual reasons.
You might begin by looking at the writing of Michael Taussig, who is a great writer, a great guy, and open about his drug experiences with South American shamans. Anything but an expository writer, but as Foucault said, any true history of madness would have to be written by a madman.
Also, you might look at a pretty good book by Richard Klein called Cigarettes Are Sublime. It's not about drugs by today's standards, but it goes a long way toward analyzing the nature and myth of addiction. He's using mostly Kant, but I must confess I don't see the Kant of the third critique as all the different from what is best in Heidegger, nor does Makkreal in the chapters of his I'm right now reading.
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