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Stress And Cigarette Smoking |
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I went to visit the Bank Manager, along with
my friend. At a conspicuous place in the cabin, I saw a board hung,
which read thus:” Your smoking is injurious to my health. Please do not
smoke.
“ How polite, kind and
considerate you are to the smokers! Do you think, we smokers, enjoy
smoking?. The stress of cigarette smoking is only known to the smokers,”
my friend said..
Whether the smokers are to be pitied or
condemned! The former option seems to be alright because nothing
tangible is going to be achieved by condemning the smoker!
One
more point incidentally. Whether one smokes due to stress? Or stress is
the cause of smoking? It is like the double-edged sword. They are the
cause and effect of each other.
It is one of the peculiar
ambiguities of human nature. Stress first or headache first? Egg first
of hen first? It is better to treat smoking first. The chances are that
your stress will vanish with your successful effort to give up smoking.
The
most cut and dry methods are not going to help you to quit smoking, in
their purest form. They need to be associated with your will power. It
is a fact that you are not going to light a cigarette, out of sheer joy.
You have some problem, you have some stress, you are on a thinking spree
to solve some ticklish issue, and therefore you smoke! It is not
possible for you to destroy stress in one stroke!
The flood of stress has to recede slowly and steadily. For that an
atmosphere needs to be created around you and you need to be surrounded
by people who are not favorably disposed to smoking. Your family members
are ever helpful to your, their friendly pressure against smoking, is
one of the causes of stress, but you welcome that stress. It might get
you t o the desired goal.
You need to have a
permanent controller for your smoking habit, who will monitor your
smoking activities, and ask for a cigarette-by cigarette account at the
end of the day. Mostly, the onus of this responsibility may fall on your
spouse.
With a cigar between your lips you may look stylish and
attractive personality, but that is only for the initial part of your
cigarette career. But soon that lively smile is going to become the
smile of wrinkles, indicating stress within you.
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