Blog #4
It is almost a month now (actually the 31st day) since I thought and decided to stop and kick my smoking habit.
At first, I doubted I cannot survive the urge of smoking cigarette when, above all, you are surrounded with cigarette smokers who are challenging that you will not last a week or two. It is so hard on situation like these when peer pressure disrupts your desire to avoid lighting up a cigarette one more.
What should I do to avoid smoking cigarette? I just keep telling my self not to smoke, not buy cigarette, and tell people that I already ceased to smoke. Maybe not all will mutually cooperate but they will understand later the importance of quitting smoking.
Well friends, the issue to quit smoking is not having a miracle to happen in a wink of an eye. It falls on the issue on your determination to stop smoking by any method available within your self and on the environment that you belong.
That is all for now, and on my next blog, I will share to you some tips how I was able to stop smoking successfully for the last 30 days.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Diseases Caused By Smoking
Blog #3
No update for today, however here is an articles I found in health magazine worth reading.
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Reasons to Quit Smoking
Aside from your family and friends giving you their countless reasons to quit smoking there are a million other reasons to quit smoking that you should consider. With a government that seems to back this opportunity with a good amount of literature on the reasons to quit smoking, it is important for you to take full advantage of the opportunity. If you are serious about quitting this nasty habit but haven’t yet found the right reasons to quit smoking then you need to look at a few statistics that are courtesy of your government:
In 2003, 45.4 million adults (21.6 percent) in the United States were current smokers—24.1 percent of men and 19.2 percent of women. For the first time since data collection began in 1965, the prevalence of cigarette smoking among women declined below 20 percent. Those who try to tell you that smoking is relaxing, enjoyable, or even just “cool” are flat out wrong as these numbers continue to decline. Fact is, people are quitting everyday, isn’t joining them a good enough reason to quit smoking in and of itself?
By education level, adults who had earned a General Educational Development (GED) diploma (44.4 percent) had the highest prevalence of smoking; those with master’s, professional, and doctoral degrees had the lowest prevalence (7.5 percent). Whether you reached a certain level of education or not you should be smart enough to realize the reasons to quit smoking. It is much more difficult to get an education or pay for your education than to quit smoking or pay for your smoking habit. Let saving money in itself be one of your biggest reasons to quit smoking.
The list of diseases caused by smoking has been expanded to include abdominal aortic aneurysm, acute myeloid leukemia, cataract, cervical cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, pneumonia, periodontitis, and stomach cancer. These are in addition to diseases previously known to be caused by smoking, including bladder, esophageal, laryngeal, lung, oral, and throat cancers, chronic lung diseases, coronary heart and cardiovascular diseases, as well as reproductive effects and sudden infant death syndrome. Can you honestly tell me that these are not reasons enough to quit smoking? If you say it’s not then you are beyond help, none of the reasons to quit smoking will ever change your mind.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Reasons Why I Want To Quit Smoking
Blog #2
In this blog, I write about the reasons why I decided to stop smoking. I feel that it is important that you have a number of good reasons as to why you want to stop smoking, as this will help you to get through the great number of cravings that you will no doubt have. I hope this blog proves to be of encouragement and can help other people to cut cigarettes out of their lives once and for all.
When several governments around the globe have tried to encourage people to stop smoking, they always seem to go down the health route. It could be by showing a man who is dying of cancer for example. I knew about all of the health risks that were involved with smoking but still I continue to do it. This was because in my own mind these health problems were unlikely to really start affecting me for around ten years. I used to say to myself that there is a good chance that I will not be alive in thirty years time and that I should live for today. I would also try to persuade myself that if I do live for another thirty years that there is a good chance that they will have found a cure for cancer by that point. When I decided to stop smoking, health was one of the reasons why I wanted to quit, but it was by no means the main reason.
The main reason was without doubt financial. The price of a packet of twenty cigarettes in the RP has rocketed upwards over the last few years. It is not that I can not afford to continue buying cigarettes; it is that I would rather spend the money on other things such as clothes or a holiday. I have worked out that I save over a thousand pesos a year by abstaining smoking. This for me is a lot of money and was what I always thought of when the cravings in my head were trying to convince me to light just one last cigarette.
There were of course other reasons why I wanted to stop smoking. These include the amount they make your clothes smell, the amount they make your house smell, the effect they have on your teeth, the fact that most women find smoking a turn off and the sheer dependency that one can get from cigarettes. For example I feel a bit stressed, I must therefore have a cigarette. I am drinking tea, therefore I must smoke a cigarette.
In this blog, I write about the reasons why I decided to stop smoking. I feel that it is important that you have a number of good reasons as to why you want to stop smoking, as this will help you to get through the great number of cravings that you will no doubt have. I hope this blog proves to be of encouragement and can help other people to cut cigarettes out of their lives once and for all.
When several governments around the globe have tried to encourage people to stop smoking, they always seem to go down the health route. It could be by showing a man who is dying of cancer for example. I knew about all of the health risks that were involved with smoking but still I continue to do it. This was because in my own mind these health problems were unlikely to really start affecting me for around ten years. I used to say to myself that there is a good chance that I will not be alive in thirty years time and that I should live for today. I would also try to persuade myself that if I do live for another thirty years that there is a good chance that they will have found a cure for cancer by that point. When I decided to stop smoking, health was one of the reasons why I wanted to quit, but it was by no means the main reason.
The main reason was without doubt financial. The price of a packet of twenty cigarettes in the RP has rocketed upwards over the last few years. It is not that I can not afford to continue buying cigarettes; it is that I would rather spend the money on other things such as clothes or a holiday. I have worked out that I save over a thousand pesos a year by abstaining smoking. This for me is a lot of money and was what I always thought of when the cravings in my head were trying to convince me to light just one last cigarette.
There were of course other reasons why I wanted to stop smoking. These include the amount they make your clothes smell, the amount they make your house smell, the effect they have on your teeth, the fact that most women find smoking a turn off and the sheer dependency that one can get from cigarettes. For example I feel a bit stressed, I must therefore have a cigarette. I am drinking tea, therefore I must smoke a cigarette.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Quit Smoking
Blog #1
As the new year starts, my resolution would be that I will stop cigarette smoking for good.
I had been a smoker for almost ten years now. At a rate of one pack day, that would translate a huge number of cigarettes sticks burned through all those years.
I tried several times to quit cigarette smoking. But all those attempts were not successful as my cravings to smoke become more intense the moment I decided to stop it.
I thought changing brands can help reduce smoking as new taste will discourage to smoke one more, but what happened is the reverse of it.
Now, I hope that I will be successful and I will post here the actions I do to really quit smoking. If I will not smoke cigarette until six month, I will consider it a success. Wish me luck.
As the new year starts, my resolution would be that I will stop cigarette smoking for good.
I had been a smoker for almost ten years now. At a rate of one pack day, that would translate a huge number of cigarettes sticks burned through all those years.
I tried several times to quit cigarette smoking. But all those attempts were not successful as my cravings to smoke become more intense the moment I decided to stop it.
I thought changing brands can help reduce smoking as new taste will discourage to smoke one more, but what happened is the reverse of it.
Now, I hope that I will be successful and I will post here the actions I do to really quit smoking. If I will not smoke cigarette until six month, I will consider it a success. Wish me luck.
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