The One With the Nicotine Patches
Jan. 26th, 2010 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pickyourmomentsEverybody’s taken a swing at lecturing him by now, but when Alan said his words over the phone, it actually made sense. Chandler could see what he meant about it alienating him from his friends, and putting a strain on the relationship.
He’d never seen it as something that affected other people before. Smoking was just something that affected him. But looking at the whole picture, he does have to admit that he’s been forced to stand out in the rain and been disallowed from everyone’s apartments (including his own on several occasions).
Quitting was easy, for the first half a day. Then, it was on to the gum. Which lasted him through the afternoon, until Joey ate his last piece, and Chandler nearly threw him through a door for it.
After that, it was the nicotine patches, and constant supervision at Monica’s, watching Lambchop’s Play Along.
“Eugh, Lambchop. How old is that sock?” Chandler groans. He doesn’t notice the looks everyone else gives him. “If I had a sock on my hand for thirty years, it’d be talking, too!”
At that, Ross just rolls his eyes. “Kay. I think it’s time to change somebody’s nicotine patch.”
Obliging, Chandler rolls up his sleeve while Ross reaches for the box on the end table. As Ross begins to change his patch for him, Monica walks into the apartment, looking cautiously around the room.
“Hey,” she says. “Where’s Joey?”
“Joey ate my last stick of gum, so I killed him,” Chandler says simply. “Do you think that was wrong?”
“I think he’s across the hall,” Rachel offers, pointing in that direction.
“Thanks.”
Ross presses the new patch onto Chandler’s arm as Monica walks back out of the apartment. “There ya go,” he says lightly.
“Ooh, I’m alive with pleasure now.” Not.
Quitting sucks.
[ ooc: dialogue taken from Episode 01x03: The One with the Thumb ]
He’d never seen it as something that affected other people before. Smoking was just something that affected him. But looking at the whole picture, he does have to admit that he’s been forced to stand out in the rain and been disallowed from everyone’s apartments (including his own on several occasions).
Quitting was easy, for the first half a day. Then, it was on to the gum. Which lasted him through the afternoon, until Joey ate his last piece, and Chandler nearly threw him through a door for it.
After that, it was the nicotine patches, and constant supervision at Monica’s, watching Lambchop’s Play Along.
“Eugh, Lambchop. How old is that sock?” Chandler groans. He doesn’t notice the looks everyone else gives him. “If I had a sock on my hand for thirty years, it’d be talking, too!”
At that, Ross just rolls his eyes. “Kay. I think it’s time to change somebody’s nicotine patch.”
Obliging, Chandler rolls up his sleeve while Ross reaches for the box on the end table. As Ross begins to change his patch for him, Monica walks into the apartment, looking cautiously around the room.
“Hey,” she says. “Where’s Joey?”
“Joey ate my last stick of gum, so I killed him,” Chandler says simply. “Do you think that was wrong?”
“I think he’s across the hall,” Rachel offers, pointing in that direction.
“Thanks.”
Ross presses the new patch onto Chandler’s arm as Monica walks back out of the apartment. “There ya go,” he says lightly.
“Ooh, I’m alive with pleasure now.” Not.
Quitting sucks.
[ ooc: dialogue taken from Episode 01x03: The One with the Thumb ]
