Lets get into the meat immediately, you are thinking you should quit smoking or at least cut down on the number of cigarettes you light up each day. I do not believe you are reading this believing it to be a work of fiction designed to entertain and be forgotten over the coming weeks and months. You are here, at any rate, because you're somewhat uneasy about the reports linking smoking with several serious and unpleasant diseases such as cancer. Or because you've heard that smokers tend to die at an earlier age than non-smokers.
Smoking is one of the most common forms of recreational drug use, seriously affecting the health of the smoker. Tobacco smoking is today by far the most popular form of smoking and is practiced by over one billion people in the majority of all human societies. Those that quit smoking can be subject to withdrawal symptoms and need professional help and medicine to overcome them. However over 1 million people manage to stop smoking successfully each year.
The cultural perception surrounding smoking has varied over time and from one place to another; holy and sinful, sophisticated and vulgar, a panacea and deadly health hazard. Only recently, and primarily in industrialized Western countries, has smoking come to be viewed in a decidedly negative light. Today medical studies have proven that smoking is among the leading causes of poor health with diseases such as lung cancer, heart attacks and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and can also lead to birth defects. The well-proven health hazards of smoking have caused many countries to institute high taxes on tobacco products and anti-smoking campaigns are launched every year in an attempt to encourage smokers to stop smoking. Several countries, states and cities have also imposed smoking bans in most buildings where members of the public can be found.
Is it any wonder that you awaken in the morning sounding as if you had swallowed a fistful of gravel? Is it any wonder that you suffer from that persistent cough that your dog recognizes when you're a block away, which is not exactly your idea of an endearing trade mark? Or perhaps your mate complains that you snoreyes, youand that it is all because of too much you-know-what. And maybe you are reading this because you're just plain tired of being told that all your poor health comes from excessive smoking.
Besides, suppose they do!
One thing, however, is almost certain. Before you read this, you thought about and probably even tried breaking the cigarette habit. Perhaps you did get through a few tobacco-free days, weeks, months or yearsand yet here you are again the craving is back. You still burn up a pack or two or three a day. You've found the truth behind the old jokeanyone can stop smoking; the trick is not to start again.
Your most recent attempt to quit was very likely a bust. I assume this only because I used to be the sort of chain smoker who swore off cigarettes once or twice a year, and I still remember my "withdrawal symptoms'* ruefully and vividly.
Are you like Mark Twain when he said, Giving up smoking is easy, I stopped a hundred times, do you keep saying I COULD ALWAYS STOP SMOKING FOR AN HOUR
This is article is based the book "The Painless Way To Stop Smoking" - in 17 Days or Less Even If You Think You Have Tried Everything Before. Why not try it for yourself, you know it makes sense.
