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WHY IS IT DIFFICULT TO STOP
SMOKING ?
I
bet you have asked yourself this question again and again.
Every
smoker has.
We know it is bad for
us. We KNOW it is KILLING us
and yet..... we
continue to do it.
And to make things worse......every time, we try to
stop, we seem to WANT it more and more.
Even all the
health scares don't affect us.
From new statistics, we now know that over
50% of all
regular smokers will die from smoking-related diseases.
And when you look
even closer at the truth of the matter, it is even more incredible......
Everyday,
we are in fact using our own money to systematically destroy our own body
- to turn our health living cells into dying cancerous-ridden ones - and
we are so persistent in doing it - every day, every hour we are on the
job!
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When we look at it this way, we all know
that smoking is 'surely the stupidest thing in the world'.
And yet, we all continue to do it.
I continued to smoke even though I knew all the above.
In fact, I even watched my grandfather die of smoking-related cancer, but I
still kept smoking for years afterwards.
The
Paradox
In fact, in a strange way, such incidents
probably make it harder to give up.
I was a teenager when my grandfather died.
I had only been smoking a little while when I heard my parents say that he
knew he was dying from cancer, but still he wouldn't quit smoking.
Although I wasn't aware of it at the time, I
drew two very damaging conclusions from my grandfather's
decision.
One, I concluded -- that either cigarette must
indeed be very enjoyable: Why one someone keep doing it even though it was
killing him? (I did not know of the addictive nature of the drug - nicotine
at that stage. I was only 11)
And
two: It must be impossible to quit smoking once you
start. Otherwise, surely he would have stopped.....................?
Surely...... |
