A guy puffing a cigarette
Smoking is never an option for anybody, ever.
Smoking is very common everywhere, especially in the Philippines. Essentially, it is just and inhalation and exhalation of the fumes of a burning plant material wrapped in paper, but why is it so popular?
The substance that is causing all the rage in cigarettes is a substance called Nicotine. It is a drug that naturally occurs in tobacco and is said to be just as addictive as heroin and cocaine. This is why cigarette smoking is very dangerous. Because this substance can get in to your brain and will produce temporary pleasure. Once it goes away, you will feel the need to light some more due to withdrawal symptoms – you will feel the need to have some more. And once you do, it’s hard to stop.
Smoking is not just any activity that you do everyday, it is an addiction. It eats you up, both figuratively and literally. First it consumes your mind. The first time you puff your first cigarette you feel a sense of relief, satisfaction you’ve never experienced before. Sure it feels good in the start, but it worsens as days pass by. You light another stick and you realize you’ve already had a dozen and it already consumed your money. A few packs more and it’ll consume your time. The worse part is that you don’t even realize it until it’s too late. Next thing you know, you realize that the only difference between a normal life and a broken family is puffing one more stick of cigarette. It destroys the lives of people, their relationship with others, and worst of all, it destroys their bodies as well.
“Quitting smoking is a hard thing to do, and it’s important to provide as much help and encouragement as we can to the person attempting to quit.”
Cynthia Williams
Smoking is hard to get through with, especially if you’ve been smoking for a very long time. It’s not something as easy as opening a can. It’s a rough process that people must go through in order to be freed from the addiction of smoking. In order to do this, people need as much help as possible. And while the best way to help someone in quitting is providing him/her with as much social support as possible, we are not able to do that to every one. And so, this is what we thought to help those in need of recovery.
In order for someone to quit smoking, he/she has to have a good reason and/or a motivation to quit. In this blog, we have provided you some facts and information about smoking that might help you go through this a lot easier. The more you know, the more you’ll do a lot better. With more information at hand, you are more likely to resist the temptation of having to smoke every once in a while. In knowing more about cigarette smoking, you are more capable of having an informed decision to quit smoking rather than having someone force you to do so. In a way, it speeds up your recovery because you don’t have to have other people scolding you every time you hold a cigarette. You can already resist puffing cigarettes everywhere once you have the information you need.
This may not be as much as help as going through therapy or having physical support through friends and family, but it still helps a lot of people. At the end of the day, you are still in charge of your body. It is your will to change that will drive you to achieve the version of you that you so badly want to see. We are merely here to help and support you. If you ever need any help, you may e-mail us and we’ll do everything we can to connect you to a professional to guide you on your recovery.
“The change I want to see begins with me.”
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References:
- https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/tobacco-and-cancer/why-people-start-using-tobacco.html?fbclid=IwAR2uLsreaFGnF7ZNpesvs17rf2NkLBFZvGslBOgch8zt9VoxWIl2_oBSwQ0
- https://www.hamad.qa/EN/your%20health/Stop%20Smoking/About-Smoking/Pages/Types-of-Smoking.aspx
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