Huh........I once had a mania where I DESPERATELY wanted to smoke. I'd never even tried a cigarette before or since. It was all I could do to not beg co-workers for cigarettes on a daily basis. Nobody could explain why this was happening. I wonder if it was, as you say, a way to hurt myself. I've wanted tattoos before just because I knew it would hurt and I've never wanted a tattoo when not in an episode so I figured that was the rationale there but I never thought about it applying to the great desire to smoke 2007. (That was SO WEIRD).

Thanks for the idea.