To Quit or not to quit. This is the question that every smoker asks.
Smoking is one hard habit to break, so they say. I know I could do it but then again, I find myself between choosing to lose something that helps me relieve the stress from work.
There are five of us at home. Three of us are smokers. The only time you won't see us smoking is when we have cough or colds.
A friend of mine has asthma. His girlfriend sent a text message just this afternoon and wanted all of us to quit smoking by January 2, 2009. Why not January 1? According to Kane, it's because everyone will still be enhaling smoke after fireworks during the new year celebration.
What is it with smoking which makes it hard to resist? Everyone has been made aware of the ill effects of smoking but why are we always caught in between deciding to stop or to continue? Or are we just justifying our weakness and unwillingness to quit smoking?
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I had a somehow deep conversation with a friend just the other day. It was an out-pouring-of-emotions-talk of sort. He is in this kind-of-common situation of unrequited love.. (tears, tears...). Remember the the usual stories we heard/read from the romance novels, movies, blogs, songs? - boy meets girl they became friends then he falls in love with her. She cannot reciprocate the feelings and so the sad boy-unlucky story moves along. He is hurting, but still would choose to be nailed onto his role. This is simply because he's in love. Though hurting, he's just there. If he left, then he would lose even that littlest piece that he has of his adored one.
Same thing with cigarettes? Yes. There would always come a time when we wish we know how to quit being in love, quit inflicting pain to ourselves, and quit someone.
Smoking? Some people would choose not to quit because they're happy with the vice. This is so, even after the folks have said, the doctors proved, health geniuses testified, and governments had warned of, of the ill effects of tobacco to one's health.
With unrequited love, it's like HAPPY BEING UNHAPPY, as my friend put it.
PS:
We should love ourselves enough and give proper care to our health by not taking in
anything harmful to our bodies.
As for our hearts, let us learn when it's time to walk away... and when it is, bail out!
i smoke because i choose to. i smoke because i want to.
conversely, i can choose not to smoke. i can choose not to want to smoke.
i know one day i will stop - when i choose to. and i know one day i will not want to smoke.
all a matter of choice.
Finally. i can already say i stopped smoking. and im damn proud about it!
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