How many of us say we are going to make a new years resolution and are absolutely adamant that you are going to keep it until you realise that there is actually work involved in keeping it?
I think we can all be a little bit guilty of that. Losing weight, quitting smoking, giving up the drink? It sounds great when you say it, but doing it is an entirely different thing altogether. Take smoking for instance. for all you non-smokers out there, whom have never smoked a single cigarette in your life (great, keep it up), you may wonder what all the fuss is about, why is it so hard to give up? Are these smokers making a mountain out of a mole hill? Just give up for goodness sake! Let me tell you what I was told by a nurse a few years ago, and it puts things into perspective. They say that giving up nicotine is harder than giving up heroine (true or false, I don't know, but that is what they say), why? Imagine a smoker smokes on average 20 cigarettes a day - from each cigarette the smoker takes about 10 drags, that is 200 hits of nicotine that the body is used to, if suddenly those hits of nicotine are taken away, it is going to effect the body, not might, or it should but won't, it WILL EFFECT THE BODY. Their brain is being deprived of the one thing it has become accustomed to, in effect, it is like telling a fish not to swim or a dog not to bark, to a smoker, the brain is telling them that smoking is perfectly natural and without it you will not function correctly. However, we all know that smoking is not natural and it will kill us in the end (either that or make us very poorly indeed), so the nicotine is causing a smokers brain to play tricks on him/her. So quitting (I quite three and a half weeks ago), my advice, QUIT, QUIT, QUIT!
In a few months time, but not yet because (like, as above in the bullet points) I believe in taking one step at a time. I will start to lose weight, but not until I am ready. When I do, I will let you all know. Happy New Year Everyone, and Good Luck! Let me know if you have quit smoking and what your experience is.
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Niven
4/1/2016 11:41:46 am
Enjoyable reading and very true the trick is, is to not give up giving up.
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AuthorI am the author of a book called Innocent Spirits, I write short Novella's and Short stories. I love to dabble with a bit of Poetry. All my stories are either Horror or paranormal Thrillers. I write poetry of all genres. Archives
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