last cigarette
One before quitting
The last cigarette is the one a smoker has before quitting—or claims to be quitting: I've had my last cigarette at least a dozen times.
The phrase carries both hope and skepticism, since the last cigarette so often isn't.
It also refers to the final smoke offered to a condemned prisoner before execution, giving last cigarette associations with finality and dark humor.
- finalLast and decisive
- smokeAirborne combustion byproduct
- ashCombustion's powdery remains
- stub outExtinguish by pressing
- quitCease doing something
nicotine · craving · lighter · inhale · deep breath · farewell · exhale · ashtray · stub · pack · addiction · nicotine patch · lungs · goodbye · filter · drag · tar · withdrawal
- executionexecution, lethal injection, firing squad, gas chamber, electric chair
- military executionfiring squad, execution, death sentence, military tribunal, condemned