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Do you smoke? If so, did you start in childhood or in your teens? As much as we know about how bad smoking is for us, there is still no notable non-smoking education aimed at our young. It is estimated that 30% of them are smoking.
If you started smoking young, you should know by now that there are many quitting programs. I recommend hypnosis, I have a contact if you need one, and an aid such as the ones on t.v. that help you step down on your nicotine addiction.
Do you want to live your longest, healthiest, best life that you can? Then stop inhaling smoke that is known to cause cancer. Our ancestors didn't know any better, so they had an excuse. We don't.
My son tells me that he knows a girl who's mother buys her cigarettes when she buys her own. This girl is fifteen. I can not respect that mother's choice. To inflict possible cancer on yourself is one thing, to inflict it upon your child is a crime in my book.
As recently as 1984, my high school had designated "smoking areas" where we students were allowed to smoke. My senior year they instituted that only students 16 and older could smoke, without a written note from their parents, which echoed the law passed here that you had to be 16 to buy cigarettes. That thinned out our smoking areas a bit, but there are always friends ready to give you a smoke, so that they don't have to do it alone.
I did smoke a little in middle school, I must admit. I had friends who did, and it was all to easy to take what was offered to fit in.
Honestly, I didn't like it, so I quit doing it. I didn't like the way it made my hair and fingers smell, and it made me cough afterwards. I will tell you something that I have found about it, though. The last time I smoked a cigarette, I was 13 years old. I have been exposed to second hand smoke of course since then. But, even now, nearly thirty years later, when I am feeling really str! esse d out, I crave a smoke! What does THAT tell you about the addiction power of nicotine?! But, I just note that craving, say how crazy that is to still crave a cig. after all these years, and move on to whatever I have to do next.
That's the number one thing that is needed to give up those cancer sticks. Will power is the thing that we need to stop lighting up. So, it's up to you. Do you want to be sucking on those rancid things forever, or would you just like to look back on that time in your life, and say, I can't believe that I wasted so much time, money, and health on something that I knew could kill me?
Until next blog!
Love, Angelia
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