That was me, the smoker, full of every reason I could think to justify my disgusting practice. I started very young, 12 years old in fact and can still remember to this day ( I am now 41) that first cigarette and how foul it tasted, but egged on by a friend I continued to smoke. What did it matter, I was invincible and could give up whenever I wanted, or so I thought, yet nearly thirty years later I was still smoking.
Any smoker can give you many reasons why they smoke, none of them stand up to examination but I believed them just like any of my kind fighting for our smoking survival in an increasingley hostile world. "I enjoy smoking", "Smoking relaxes me when I'm stressed", "Smoking after a meal is enjoyable", recognise any of these statements? I do, I have used them all.....and guess what, none of them are really true, though we think so when we say them.
Any smoker can give you many reasons why they smoke, none of them stand up to examination but I believed them just like any of my kind fighting for our smoking survival in an increasingley hostile world. "I enjoy smoking", "Smoking relaxes me when I'm stressed", "Smoking after a meal is enjoyable", recognise any of these statements? I do, I have used them all.....and guess what, none of them are really true, though we think so when we say them.