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Dear AJ,
I started smoking in high school and successfully ended in April 2023. But last summer, did I start again? I justified cigarettes with certain friends and justified it as a reward for working hard in the gym in a specific situation. I know the danger of smoking, I think it is garbage, and I am ashamed that I can’t stop it. But I also like it very much, and it’s hard to think about the long -term health effect when the future of the world seems too uniform and desolate. In other words, I really want to stop. How can I quit in 2025?
-Morching council
Still smoke.
Do you know the first feelings that I bubble for me when I read this? jealousy. I have been a Malboro lighting man for the rest of my life, but I have a short run with Congress. (Its self -filter!)
I liked smoking in a way that looks like you. Although negative is much greater than the temporary slogan we feel while we have it. And smoking is A Cultural comeback It is also much more tempting to start again.
Since all warnings are on the side of the CIG box, we know most of them, but let’s look at the negative. The harsh reality is that you are likely to die from it. “Tobacco kills up to half of users who do not end.” According to the World Health Organization. Coin flip. A terrible way you can meet your end: waste species. Lung cancer. Heart disease. Grandma lived until he was 96 years old. But perhaps she could have been able to live until she was 135 if she was willing to quit smoking.
And consider this: Do you want Your teeth will fall? Is your clothes odor? Hair with smell of chimney cleaning? The tongue that turns black? My words -Gross, friend. Still, even after the tongue turned black, I smoked for almost 20 years.
I have a story here: I started to smoke in high school and tried to quit smoking. Then the gums fell too much. So I started smoking again. Then I tried nicotine patch several times. Then nicotine gum. Hypnosis. I also attempted a five -day smoking pamphlet in the early 80’s to prescribe hot baths, initial beds, and “cold, cold friction” (rubbing face with cold towels) first in the morning. Another recommendation was that the urge to fix it with shoes had a small snack and candy nearby when you overwhelmed you. (I went with Pretzle and Dumbs Lollipop.)
But I lasted for three days and then fell into deep ping before I smoked again before I smoked again. I also tried Wellbutrin, but I sweated as if I spent my mouth tasted as if I was sucking a metal fork all day in a space suit in a sauna.
Then I tested CHANTIX, a stop smoking pill prescribed by a doctor. Dangerous side effects) And made me go crazy. I was annoyed, I ate food for my body, and I developed a terrible sweet teeth and bizarre online shopping habits. About a month later, I started smoking again.
After that attempt failed, I accepted that I would eventually die with a slow and terrible death if I didn’t stop.
In 2017, I tried to become a father for the first time, and I was still smoking three months before my son’s deadline. Still, I decided to quit and 43 days agoRD Birthday, I started reading Allen Carr’s Easy way to stop smoking. I mentioned this book in the previous column. It has been on the bookshelf for several years and I have ignored it for years. The back cover was filled with the same claim as the outskirts. No weight gain! There is no will! There is no withdrawal!
The background of the CARR does not persuade anyone that he is not a quack. The British accountant, who had long battle with his own habit of smoking 100 cigarettes a day, transformed him from his personal despair to his self -improvement expert. His methodology seemed too simple, but he treated thousands of people through rare logic and hypnosis. His success of his interruption program is A Stop all empire (Drinking, drugs, refined sugar, iPhone -default all the villains. If you look closely at some of the specific arguments of the Easyway method, They can shake. But this book is a few people I know and famous smokers Ellen Degeneres and Jonah Hill.
When I started reading a book, I was still skeptical, so I bought Kodiak’s comment in case my withdrawal symptoms changed again. But in a few days, we clicked after minimizing monsters that lacked nicotine. Here is the sentence of a book attached with me.
I couldn’t believe it. Smokers always smoke and always get the “normal” feeling we want.
Can you believe it? A good way to mood is always available. Clean and uncrete air flows inside and outside the lungs. So reading that book is my way, and you can do it too. This may not make smoking easily. However, the true reward of the gymnasium, the real stress relief from the father’s health problems. Existing without tobacco-It is a powerful way of thinking. Go out when you want to smoke. Breathe in the air. It doesn’t feel better immediately than cigarettes, but it will be soon.
But your desire to maintain smoking does not bother me as much as this part of your email.
Okay- No. It will not be used as an excuse for cutting the lungs and dying with waste species. If you are still one of the living people (as obviously), this is not time to quit the world. But I got it! I had the monster and sent it late at night to see if I was eligible to get a bomb shelter or Italian citizenship. I desperately despaired the world, feeling the real fear of how our pollution and capitalism could not live in the future generations of the future. And yes, I even considered smoking again.
But do you know how you can help you to save the planet immediately? You guessed it -smoking. WHO has done how big tobacco is.Our planet addiction. ” Water and packaging is a huge burden on the planet, and cigarettes explain 80 million tons of carbon dioxide every year. world.
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