Quitting Smoking In Just A Blink Of An Eye

This way of quitting smoking might be applicable to you if you are a smoker and want to quit the habit:

My closest friend, Lighter (not his real name) was a chain smoker 20 years ago. His alias was Lighter because everytime people saw him,  his mouth was always with lighted cigarette. He even told me that if he was not contended by exhaling and inhaling the smoke, he also chewed the tobacco. Something weird but true. Now,  how he won over the urge was so simple. It was only in just a blink of an eye.

If you tried to quit smoking and failed, you know how hard the concrete wall of nicotine addiction is to pulverize. Well, just the thought of quitting makes some smokers grin.

A report from the U.S. surgeon general found that smoking causes myriad diseases in almost every organ of the human body. Known side effects are lungs, mouth and esophageal cancers. Nervous system and brain activities are quickened caused by smoke. One cigarette increases blood pressure and heart rate. Sense of taste is weakened.

Smoking also causes bladder cancer. It can lead osteoporosis which is the thickening of bones due to a loss of bone calcium.

To stop smoking means smokers lessen the risk factor for so many health problems including cancers. I think  smokers know that warning. They are well informed from all sources of information which include their personal experiences.

BUT WHY THEY CAN’T STOP SMOKING:

1. It’s very satisfying to smoke after eating.

2. It’s good to start a brand new day with a cup of coffee and a lighted cigarette before taking shower or breakfast.

3. It’s good to smoke while busy  working like writing, cleaning the yard, etc.

4. They feel  more manly when they smoke.

5. They feel more “in” the crowd.

6. They smoke because it’s their happiness.

7. Life is not complete without smoking.

8. They keep on spitting.

9. No one lives forever; why not enjoy life.

10. They smoke because they want to.

 

Like I said, people know the terrifying cons of smoking. But they still do it because even according to some of them, even you don’t smoke, you still die; even you don’t smoke, you still get diseases. They conclude that if it is their time, then it is.

But Lighter confessed that quitting smoking is a psychological battle. If you really are determined to quit, then you can do it. ” As simple as that,” he said. Regardless of knowing the bad effects, regardless of what they call ” I am addicted to it that’s why” attitude,  as long as you decided to quit, you can.

His story goes this way when he was in college:

After school, Lighter and his friends went to their hang out for the usual drinking and talking spree instead of going home right away. With no wonder, ashtrays were choking with cigarette butts. But that was his last night of smoking. He told his friends he needed to smoke all the cigarettes in his last pack overnight and after that, goodbye to smoking. His friends didn’t believed him. He’d been smoking for 5 years and then he said that was the last pack, ah, his friends smiled.

But that pack of Hope was really his last pack. He never smoked since then, until now.

What did he do? That’s what he did- he said to quit smoking and he meant it. Withrawal? He said it was in the mind. But he had to drink  plenty of water and minimal exercise for the first three days. Side effect from abrupt stopping? Nothing.

The last time I talked to him was the other day. I asked him if he revisited the habit. He said never. He also added that to smoke makes you feel more manly but to stand with your word is more.

But regardless of gender, the saying goes, life is short; don’t make it shorter especially when you’ve precious lives who depend on you.

The choice is yours, though.