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Most times smokers know what they’re ingesting into their system, and they know how damaging it can be. Yet, they consistently smoke, not putting into considering how dangerous. Why is this?
Smoking is a voluntary risk that smokers are ready to take. Risk of cancer is high for smokers but still, proportions of smokers who actually get cancer is very small. Then there are examples in front of smokers where people smoked like hell and lived long without cancer. They rationalize their reason to smoke using such petty excuses. This is one of many classical approaches of smokers to justify their smoking. The problem however lies at what age one starts to smoke. I have never met a person who started to smoke in their midlife. Most of the smokers start smoking in their teens. At that time, most of them just follow their friends. The body is also at its peak with perpetual tolerance to smoking and drinking. Nowadays, I hear many cases of cancer,tumor etc. such realistic situations automatically compel you to quit smoking or at least reduce it.
People smoke cigarettes because nicotine is remarkably addictive. I started smoking cigarettes when I was very young. I don’t why I did it, honestly. Probably Just because everyone else did. I didn’t even like smoking. It made me cough. It made me dizzy. Sometimes it made me feel nauseated. But I kept right on doing it because I don’t honestly know why.
Then there was a day that I said, “Fuck this! This is stupid!” But guess what? I couldn’t quit.
My body rebelled. Every moment of every hour of every day that passed I was consumed with an overwhelming, fierce desire to light a cigarette and fill my lungs with that glorious, glorious smoke. I had to have it.
And then I’d smoke. And then the first few drags would feel great. And then I’d realize that I didn’t even like smoking. It was gross. I hated it. Yet I could not quit. I tried over and over. I’d get the shakes. I’d get nervous and angry and tense and fidgety. I’d want a cigarette more than I wanted anything. And I’d smoke.
I finally quit when I left the military. It helped that my husband detested smoking and pushed me not to do it. I stopped for ten years. Ten full years. Ten full years of always wanting to smoke. Every single day of my life.
Finally I did. I haven’t picked up a cigarette in over 10 years.
As I type this, my father, who will die soon of advanced COPD caused by cigarettes, is sitting across the room from me. He’s smoking. Because he can’t quit. That’s how addictive nicotine is. People continue to smoke because they can’t quit.
Smoking is a voluntary risk that smokers are ready to take. Risk of cancer is high for smokers but still, proportions of smokers who actually get cancer is very small. Then there are examples in front of smokers where people smoked like hell and lived long without cancer. They rationalize our reason to smoke using such petty excuses.
This is one of many classical approaches of smokers to justify their smoking. The problem however lies at what age one starts to smoke. I have never met a person who started to smoke in their midlife. Most of the smokers start smoking in their teens. At that time, most of them just follow their friends. The body is also at its peak with perpetual tolerance to smoking and drinking. Nowadays, I hear many cases of cancer,tumor etc. such realistic situations automatically compel you to quit smoking or at least reduce it.