Stacy Keach: Cocaine vs. Nicotine

Stacy Keach was the guest for an extensive interview on The Adam Carolla Show today.

In going through his life and career, the conversation naturally moved toward Keach's well known cocaine bust at Heathrow Airport in 1984.

He said that his cocaine addiction at that time was to the point that he is convinced that getting busted may very well have saved his life.

In prison, he was forced into unaided detoxification. He went from doing cocaine all day/every day/night to complete abstinence.

He was also a heavy cigarette smoker.

When asked how painful it was to quit cocaine cold-turkey, he said it wasn't that bad. It was being deprived of cigarettes that was excruciating. Giving up cocaine was easy for him, compared to quitting smoking.

Every Hour Asleep is...

I heard a great quote from Adam Carolla on his show.

The topic drifted briefly through morning show hosts who don't seem to be morning people. Danny Bonaduce was mentioned, and Adam "defended" him by saying that Danny didn't mind being up early, because "every hour asleep is an hour not smoking."

Yep. I can relate. But, more often I think about every second spent outdoors. For me it seemed mandatory that a cigarette be lit up immediately upon passing through any door on the other side of which smoking would not reap immediate, significant repercussions.

By the way, I'm coming up on my 2 year anniversary of being smoke-free. And I still have the occasional craving.