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No one gave it a thought that perhaps the smoke filled rooms and automobiles might harm the ones that didn't smoke. Every where you went there was someone smoking. So many of us smokers got our first dose of nicotine thru the umbilical cord.įrom my birth in Dec of 1954 my odyssey with cigarettes began with exposure to second hand smoke. Folks back then were not aware of the dangers and risks associated with smoking while pregnant. Mom and Dad got married in Feb of 54, shortly after I was 'on the way'. It seemed that the worst health hazard from smoking at a young age back in that era was that perhaps it would 'stunt your growth'. Cigarettes were cheap and a large percentage of the population smoked. You didn't need an education to work, jobs were everywhere. She quit school and went to work in the shoe shop like many of her peers did at that time. I was first exposed to cigarettes when I was in the womb. You also need some motivation, a reason to live a long healthy life. The most effective way to stop smoking is a combination of both. Help can be something as simple as some education, or it may be a prescription for a nicotine replacement delivery system. Chances are that unless you can lock yourself away for a few weeks, you will need some help to get well again. Fortunately it is a sickness that can be cured. Smoking, like any addiction, especially addictions that involve chemicals, is a sickness. The sooner you accept it, the sooner you will be able to get well again and kick those 'nasty butts' out of your life. Sorry pal, tobacco is dope, it is drugs and if you're a smoker, you are also a drug addict and a dope fiend. 'Oh no, thats drugs' or 'I ain't no dope fiend'. It amazes me the number of people who smoke cigarettes who would never smoke a 'marijuana'cigarette.

Smoking becomes a part of who and what you are. They know that smoking is as much a part of their personality as being a happy person, or being a morning person, or liking to go to the movies. They know that there will be a sense of loss. It is that little addicted voice inside their minds rationalizing the addiction, because they know, it might hurt to quit. The folks that say they don't want to quit, because of the pleasure they derive from smoking, are not really speaking for themselves.

Cigarette smokers are just as much an addict as someone hooked on crack, cocaine, morphine or heroin.

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Why would seemingly intelligent people continue to smoke, knowing full well the dangers and potential implications of doing so? Well folks, I don't want to disillussion anybody, but it is because they are nicotine addicts. Others are quite content to keep on puffing because they think they enjoy it so much. Some smokers know, deep in their hearts, they want to quit. Most rational people know this as a fact, yet many continue to smoke. One of the few legal substances available in stores that can injure or kill when used as intended. one of the most addictive and destructive, over the counter drugs known to modern man.

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