Are you constantly being harassed about your smoking? Do family and friends sometimes look at you with disdain when you light up? As more and more people give up the habit do you find yourself avoiding them so often that you feel like you're alone in the world?
These are just a few of the common issues surrounding the everyday common smoker. You may even be able to come up with a few of your own that are particularly vexing.
A yes answer to even one of these questions would suggest that your smoking has reached problematic proportions and is out of control. You may even have admitted to yourself and a few others that you know there's a problem and want to fix it.
Anyone who is seriously addicted to tobacco, or for that matter pot too, will have by now started to develop an attitude problem toward anyone who has just about anything to say about it. Furthermore, it is really beginning to get in the way of you having a satisfying relationship with a lot of people. Perhaps, you are maybe even considering finding new friends and only hanging out with people who smoke.
This situation is probably causing some emotionally troubling and intensely personal conflicts for you. After all some of these friends are family too... and besides, even though you feel like your right to choose your own vices is under attack a lot of the time; you do sort of understand that non-smokers also have the right to not be exposed to things like second-hand smoke.
At this moment, you may not feel very encouraged to deal with any of this and the natural reaction is to run away from it for sure. Interestingly enough, the nagging thought in the back of your mind is one that deep down you most likely want to act on, and in the worst way.
The question is, do you have the motivation and/or the courage to do it? I know, what you really want to do, is quit smoking altogether, and be done with it. Unfortunately, that just brings up a whole bunch of other issues that can only be dealt with: one-on-one and in their own time. Sorry, but we really just don't have time for that right now.
Instead let's first put to rest this other issue concerning how quitting smoking benefits you, whether or not you're a smoker, or a toker.
Personally I'm, quite concerned about this thing going on in our world where smokers are having a hard time dealing with their personal issues, in large part, because of the way substance use and abuse is being handled in our communities and in our society as a whole.
What I'm talking about here is that whole batch of different drugs out there that are both used and abused, Some of them are legal under certain circumstances with others being illegal in another set of circumstances, yet somehow controlled (which usually means monetized for legal consumption).
You may have figured out by now what the specific drugs or substances we're talking about here. You may also have figured out what set of behaviors are involved which most often accompany these drugs to reinforce and magnify the conflict we see between them.
Enough with the preparation and any perspiration caused by the mystery. Shall we name the culprits and expose the important side effects which occur when we quit smoking?
The two "substances" (drugs) are "tobacco" (nicotine) and "Marijuana" (THC). The lubricant which greases the pan is our love affair with these two substances. The fire that burns the bread is our desire to - feel good - and our continuous search for the means to achieve that condition.
It is the love/hate relationship between the two that has us in turmoil - a virtual conflict of two opposing realities. We love to feel good on the one hand, yet on the other, we're most often able to achieve it only after having managed to ruin our health with physical addiction.
At the very least we are quite often left with the emotional scars of a psychological dependency which has further reduced our quality of life. Additional negative effects consist of deteriorating relationships with the people we care the most about.
The combined effects of these two drugs on our family and social lives are complicated to say the least. At best they are controversial and confusing as they interactively influence and intertwine with our daily activities.
So what can be done to minimize or even eliminate the confusion created by these substances at so many different levels of our society.
The easy simple answer is to quit, to stop the abuse.
It is the single most relevant position that could ever be exposed or taken in expressing how quitting smoking benefits everyone.
What's required, for it to have any impact at all, is to act on it.
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