1. Professional Work (Free Zone)

• Actions directly tied to salaried employment (office hours, meetings, urgent bug fixes, mandatory calls) are exempt.
• These cigarettes are outside the economy—professional obligations are duty, not personal barter.
• No tokens, no billing, no tracking. Corporate work consumes life as its own cost; smoking here does not add to that ledger.

2. Productive Actions (Billable Zone)

• Any action outside professional work is billable, even if it is productive.
• A cigarette can only be cleared if the action is explicitly listed on the LifeUp todo system.
• If the action is productive but undocumented (e.g., buying rice without logging it), then it is considered unpaid and must be billed separately.
• This prevents “floating productivity” from diluting the discipline system.

3. Why ‘Billable’ Instead of ‘Buyable’

• Buying a cigarette pack does not entitle free use. Each cigarette is a separate transaction, invoiced against action.
• The true cost of a cigarette is determined not by financial wealth, but by intentionality and context.
• Cigarettes are not consumed casually—they are “billed” against proof of action. This keeps them scarce, even if wealth is abundant.

4. Exceptions (Interrupt Handling)

• If blocked by external processes (e.g., data processing, builds, long waits), downtime can be redirected to auxiliary tasks (cleaning, cooking, bathing) without prior todo entry.
• Passive idleness (phone scrolling, aimless browsing) is never free and must always be billed.
• Auxiliary tasks must be dropped as soon as the main process resumes, unless dropping would create waste or disturbance (e.g., abandoning boiling water mid-cook, mid shower).

5. Tokens (Compounding Currency)

• Completing daily tasks generates tokens.
• Tokens cannot erase the billing rules—they only allow substitution for cigarettes consumed during long-horizon, skill-compounding tasks (e.g., language study, coding side projects).