It's really just hot milk now

I have determined the smoking danger zone. It is in the AM, like right now.
I get up, get in front of the news, with the computer and the cup of tea. Having just woken up I want nicotine. I will smoke about 4 or 5 cigarettes in fairly quick succession, say, every 15 to 20 minutes. I don’t smoke like that the rest of the day. Normally I go anywhere up to two hours without, or more if I’m involved in something compelling.
Tuesday I smoked 16. I actually got uptight at how few there were left at one point and wanted to smoke more. Yesterday I almost got by on 13, then the cat woke me up yakking, it took a while to get back to sleep, yada, yada, yada.

I have stuck to one cup of tea. I had to fool myself a couple times by making a big milky cup of herbal/cinnamon type tea. Today I cut it down to one bag from 2.
Then maybe cut the brew time from there. Right now I steep 6 minutes on the timer.

But I think I have found the source of the pain, as just by cutting down since Monday the pain has diminished significantly. So possibly I was taking courses of antibiotics for something that antibiotics can’t touch. Sigh. Oh well, live and learn.
Now maybe I can get my caffeine exclusively from dark chocolate and kill two birds with one less intensive stone. I will not give up the chocolate, besides they now say that dark chocolate softens the arteries.