Actually, that was one of the easier problems to solve. I told him either he was going to take a shower right now, or he was going to spend the next 30 days in segregation (what some of the older inmates call "the hole," though it bears little resemblance to what that old punishment was).

He took a shower.

Coming up on 16 days now. I've had the 21mg patch on for 36 hours now and I'm going to try to stretch it to 48. (It's a 24-hour patch.) I figure this is as good a way as any to gradually wean myself off nicotine.

Somewhat off topic, but you really don't want to mask smells in a jail--or anywhere else, for that matter. Smells are one of our senses that warn us if anything is wrong. And in a jail, things can go wrong in a hurry.

Onward and upward,
airforce

Onward and upward,
airforce