“It’ll never happen to me”
A few smokers, mainly the younger ones, have almost a death wish. They prefer to roll the dice in life and think that "it'll never happen to them". What they usually mean is that they hope they'll never get lung cancer.
Why do smokers fear lung cancer? Because if you get it then it is almost certainly incurable and you will probably die a slow painful death within a matter of months.
Your chances of getting lung cancer are still fairly low though. So if you forget about the hit to your wallet, is it still worth taking a chance and carry on smoking anyway?
Smoking affects your entire body. Have you ever seen a woman who claims to be 40 but looks more like 55? Chances are that she was a smoker.
When you smoke, it goes into your lungs and then you breathe it out but the long term effects are on your entire body. Smoking affects your circulatory system which means every square inch of your body. It clogs the arteries and almost guarantees that you will die from a heart attack, on average, earlier than a non-smoker.
It affects your organs, you are more likely to get a whole host of cancers and not just lung cancer, and it affects your fitness and even your brain and thinking.
Sure, gamble if you want that you'll never get lung cancer but die early in ignorance anyway having lived most of your life with a diseased body.
On the other hand, if you stop smoking, at whatever age, then the benefits from stopping smoking happen very quickly indeed - more on this later.
“I enjoy Smoking”
Do you believe in that statement?
Many people believe that smoking is actually enjoyable. Maybe you do yourself, you have your favourite brand and, although you know smoking is bad for you and you want to give up, you will sadly miss the "taste" of cigarettes.
Now, if you gave a non-smoker a cigarette, what would their reaction be? They would turn you down, right? They have smelled smoke and to them it is foul. Naturally so, because it is a toxin and all toxins smell or taste foul. Even if they actually tried a cigarette, unless they were being offered a lot of money then there is no way that they would smoke the whole thing, right?
Remember those first cigarettes that you ever smoked? They were foul and tasted weird. But anyway, you kept smoking them in search of this "taste" and enjoyment that real smokers talk about. Human beings are naturally curious so this is normal.
Did you ever notice that cigarettes only tasted good and became enjoyable when you became addicted and not before? And how do cigarettes suddenly go from being foul and nasty to become tasty and enjoyable? The simple truth is that the addiction plays tricks on your mind. It makes you think that cigarettes are enjoyable and taste good when in fact they are not. Don't be fooled by your emotions and the addiction that is toying with them.
Do not believe that smoking is an "acquired" taste like coffee and alcohol. Although you can get addicted to both of these, even though you thought that your first sip tasted foul, most people drink them in moderation with no ill effects. They also have powerful psychoactive properties so many people drink them for a specific purpose rather than for taste (do you know many people to drink decaf or non-alcoholic booze?).
With smoking, you only ever "enjoy" the taste after you become addicted.
And what about this "enjoyment" that cigarettes give you? They make you feel good right? Especially that first cigarette of the morning or having a cigarette after a meal?
You'll have to make a leap of faith here. Trust me as a non-smoker who used to smoke over a pack a day. Trust me when I tell you that you do not enjoy smoking. Smoking only brings you back to the level that every non-smoker is already at, it brings you back to an approximation of normality.
Think about addiction. You look at another addict, another smoker, and he or she thinks that they "need" a cigarette. Yet there is no physiological reason why they need a cigarette. They don't need it at all! When this "need" is fulfilled, the only thing that happens is that you are restored to normality. You get put back to the place where every smoker already is. Cigarettes just make you feel normal.
Basically, you are always going downhill and smoking is just a boost to put you back to normality. Smoking is not enjoyable but it does make you go higher. But only as high as ground level - you are always in the basement and moving even lower when you are a smoker apart from when you have a cigarette - a cig brings you back to the ground floor again.
Non-smokers don't have this constant sinking action because they are not addicted. It's only when you are addicted to something that the chemicals (nicotine here) make you think that you are sinking and can only raise yourself with another cigarette. I don't personally believe in God or a creator but if anyone ever wanted to design or create an addiction, then the illusion that the substance was enjoyable would be a perfect design feature, don't you think?
If you make someone believe that smoking is good then they will always feel bad and only smoking can make them come back to normality and feel better. But constantly also make them feel worse so that they come back, again and again. It's almost the perfect design of using emotions to override logic.
Listen to your logical brain and use it to override the emotions. Cigarettes are not enjoyable, you are just fooled into thinking that they are.
