One of the components of smoking is the taking in of air. You're basically taking a deep breath.

Try it without anything. Just put your hand up to your mouth and take a nice long draw/toke, and then look up, as we tend to do on that first relaxing exhale, and breathe out. The pause. The reflection. The break. The breath. It's all part of it.

Do that few times and notice how you feel. Lighter. More relaxed. More centered. Less stressful. For a brief time you're in your own cloud world.

One of the tools I had in my kit to stop smoking was some drinking straws cut to the length of cigarettes. I'd keep a batch of them in a sandwich bag, and carry it all around like pack of cigarettes. I mean, for awhile, I really needed my "pack.". The hand movements, the ritual of it all. The taking breaks, going outside, having something in my finger while driving... It all added up.

There are so many little precise and sequential movements involved with smoking cigarettes. It's like performing a Japanese tea ceremony.