A "thank you" given to someone for a favor or action that has not yet taken place and never ends up materializing.
You have already thanked them for something they did not really do. It is not fair and can be taken back at any moment.
Yesterday my wife said she was going to give me a message when we got home from work so I said "thanks, I really appreciate that". We got home, she ate dinner and went to bed with no message yet had already received her thanksism. I woke her up and took it back.
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'