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It provides you with no advantages - it doesn't:
 | relieve stress |
| relax you |
| help concentration |
| look good/cool |
| etc.. |
You know all the things it is:
| waste of money |
| harmful to the smoker and others |
| etc... |
When you smoke - you are a drug addict - you are addicted to nicotine.
Its not difficult to break the addiction - its not like, you need a "hit" every 15/20 minutes, because there are many periods (e.g. when sleeping, long distance flight etc..) that you do without.
All that is required to give up is:
| Recognition that it is better to NOT smoke - we all recognise that - so that's easy |
| Recognition that it does YOU no good - you know that too |
| Every time you feel the need for a ciggy - do something else - e.g. read a magazine, talk to somebody, have a drink, listen to a CD, do some work, etc.. |
For years, whenever I took a shower, I'd follow that by cleaning my teeth. My body got used to the latter following the former. The feeling of "after a shower" needing to be followed by the feeling of "clean teeth". I did clean my teeth at other times too!!
Because you are an addict to nicotine, from time to time (not just after taking a shower), your body will give you the "need some nicotine" feeling, which for years you had fulfilled by lighting up.
To give up - all you've got to do - is "Not light up", do something else - that "need some nicotine" feeling will diminish over time, and anyway, when you get it - your body will be expecting to......read a magazine etc...
There again - if you are unable to give up - have this happy thought..... during your lifetime you will spend maybe 20,000 US$ on cigarettes etc.. - all for no benefit, and for lots of disadvantages!!
Well - OK - there is one benefit................... you paid some of the Tax I would have had to pay, if there weren't any smokers.