It will settle for less

You already said no once tonight, and it did not leave. It came back smaller. Not a whole one, just a drag. Not a drag, then just hold one and see how it feels in your hand. Not that either, then just buy cigarettes and leave them untouched. Each version sounds more reasonable than the one before it, and that is the point. You are not being tempted anymore. You are being negotiated with, by something that has all night and nowhere else to be.

Notice the shape of it. A negotiator who keeps lowering the price is not giving up, they are finding your number. Every smaller ask is the same yes, paid in installments. The drag is the first installment. Holding one is the deposit. Buying is just the paperwork. None of those feel like the thing you already refused, and that is the whole trick: the yes gets broken into pieces small enough that no single piece looks like it.

Which means the only place you get a clean vote is the first slice. After that you are arguing from inside, and inside is where this was always going to be lost, because now you are holding the thing and reasoning about the thing at the same second. That is not a character flaw and it does not mean anything about you. It is how any negotiation goes once the frame has been accepted. You refuse the frame, not the last step.

So keep your answer simple, because simple is what survives a hard hour. The answer to the smaller offer is the answer you already gave. You do not have to explain why a drag is different, or prove that it is not. You do not have to be clever at eleven at night. Ask God to hold the line with you for the next stretch, and let the smaller offers arrive and go unanswered. They are shrinking because you are winning, not because they are almost free.