Quit Smoking! Are You Crazy?

[Todd Burgess]

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Article Title: Quit Smoking! Are You Crazy?
Author: Todd Burgess
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I cannot count how many times I have heard that said to me. And my response would be, "I like Smoking" or " If it was a problem then I will quit" or something derogatory, or along those lines.

Or one of my favorite was " We all die sometime"

I always treated the person saying it to me as if they were the one who was stupid for telling me something that I already knew. I just got mad at them for reminding me that I was addicted to something that was surely killing me and I did not think I could quit.

I mean are you crazy I could not quit smoking, and as a matter of fact I could not go more than 4 hours without a cigarette or I would be pretty much climbing walls.

And that was the honest truth of the matter. I would be so irritable that you could not even look at me the wrong way without me getting agitated. And on days when I was not working I would smoke 1-2 every hour.

This was my daily cycle of never ending doom. But hey, I was in control I wanted to smoke, "Right"?

How on earth can I buy a pack of cigarettes every day that has a warning label stating "Warning the Surgeon General states that smoking causes lung cancer emphysema and a whole host of other deadly diseases"?

And continue to smoke them without giving a second thought to all of those warnings?

And continue to do this for more than 30 years?

Simple, I was an addict. And that is what an addict does.

And you can give me all the excuses in the world and I will just be a little bit in your face and tell you, that you must be an addict as well, so welcome to the club.

And like me when you do something for such a long period of time it just becomes a way of life

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So if you really want to quit smoking, and the key word is, " Really," then you should be seeking ways to quit.

That thing that you say that you enjoy, but deep down, you really do not enjoy them " You Need Them!"

And that feeling of gratification is nothing more than you getting the nicotine in your blood stream up to its usual levels. When you can admit to yourself, No one Else, just you, that you, have a problem then you have taken that big step in the direction to a new way of life.

That is the desire that is needed to quit smoking.

You have to admit there is a problem and then seek out ways to help you quit.

There are a lot of programs and ways to quit but I am not the person who will sit here and tell you which way to go because this will work, or that will work, when the truth is only you can decide what is right for you.

I quit twice in my life. Once for 8 months and then it took me 8 years to quit again. I have been cigarette free now for 7 years and I consider it the greatest achievement of my life.

Your first step is to admit there is a problem. And then to seek out the best method for you to address that problem.

When you finally beat that demon, "and you will", you will be so happy that you did.

Being smoke free is an awesome way to live and you can choose to get there by admitting to yourself that you can Quit.

Start now and be free.

Todd
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