Smoking is one of my biggest pet peeves for the following reasons:
1: it smells really really gross
2: it cuts away from other things, such as work, family time, or just socializing.
3: people who do it keep saying that it’s so hard to quit.
#3 is the topic for today. This is something I found from a website, which I agree with.
Smoking cigarettes is an addiction. It is a physical addiction no different from heroin, alcohol, or any other addiction that a person might have. Just like alcoholic, you need your cigarette to deal with stress. Just like a heroin addict, you are unconcerned about the brutal affects on your health or the money you're spending. If you smoke cigarettes, you're an addict just like the rest of them. You are an addict that has to schedule their life around their next cigarette. You are an addict that has to rush outside every few hours. You are an addict that automatically lights a cigarette after buckling their seatbelt.
Everybody has an addiction at some point in there life, addiction is a chemical in your brain, and it doesn’t matter what you are addicted to, it has the same reaction in your brain. Some addictions have physical effects to, like if you were coming off of heroin, but for the most part addictions are all the same. People are addicted to video games, porn, shoplifting, cigarettes, food, etc. People break addictions everyday and it is just a matter of will power. If you don’t want to quit, no matter what it is, then you don’t. One thing that especially makes me mad (you know who you are) is when people say that I don’t know what it’s like to quit smoking. Like it’s some type of excuse. Of course it’s hard, but people do it everyday. An addiction is an addiction. Period.
PS. ‘Bob’ I still love you, even though you smoke. I just wish you would quit so we could make-out more. ; )
1 comment:
ahhhhh! smoking is one of my HUGEST pet peeves!!!! it just doesn't make any sense to me. i mean... it's so expensive, it kills you eventually (lots of people in my family have smoked and gotten cancer) and YOU alone are the one who even starts doing it. why would you ever START smoking???? every reason i have ever heard for starting smoking has been completely lame. the lamest of all is "i am just so stressed". WHAT? everyone in the world that has any sense of responsibility is stressed! welcome to planet earth!
and since i have become pregnant, smoking has become even more of a pet peeve as cigarette smoke is the only smell that makes me want to puke. people DO NOT follow that law about smoking at least 20 feet away from the entrance to buildings... cigarette smoke is one of the few things that has been absolutely linked to miscarriage, and i for one think that i should be able to walk through asu west without breathing a gigantic cloud of smoke every five feet. SHEEESH!!!!
fortunately, i only have one friend/ immediate relative who smokes and he NEVER does it around me, so i guess overall i am lucky.
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