Fear: Why Most Smokers Are Afraid To Be An Ex Smoker
then this is because they have be disillusioned and trapped at the same time. Disillusioned by the media, and trapped by the nicotine addiction. Why don’t non smokers reach for nicotine when they eat in restaurants to enjoy the food? Why can they be together at parties or other social gatherings and laugh and enjoy each other’s company without having to smoke. That’s because in life and to do normal fun things, you don’t need nicotine, cigarettes or tobacco to enjoy them.
Smokers are afraid that if they go to a bar or club and they can’t smoke, then it will be impossible for them to enjoy themselves. What a load of bull. I go out everywhere and have great fun with my friends and I don’t need to smoke to enjoy it. In fact, smoking would make it a miserable night. That’s because smoking is only for feeding an addiction and nothing more. There is no way that anyone who says they enjoy a glass of wine with a cigarette, can justify that the wine tastes better because of the cigarette. Silly! In fact the wine’s taste is actually being compromised by the cigarette. When you do stop smoking the change of the taste in foods and drinks is amazing. That’s because your tongue and taste receptors get back to normal when you stop poisoning them. Also, there is no way that anyone can justify that to enjoy a night out with friends can only be done with cigarettes. This is ludicrous to believe. The reason why I enjoy going out MORE is because I don’t have those dark questions in my mind about smoking. I don’t worry about questions like if the next cigarette is going to give me cancer. I am free from the slavery, so therefore I am happier than before, which means that I can enjoy life more. And enjoy a life that has been given back to me from me.
Don’t be a fool and succumb to the traps laid down by the tobacco companies. They attack and advertise at social gatherings because that is what humans like to do. We are social animals. But we didn’t become social because of nicotine. Nicotine stops us from enjoying this natural activity. You can completely enjoy life without tobacco. I promise you. You are not sacrificing anything in order to enjoy your social life. Nicotine is not the staple to enjoyment. You and your family are. Nicotine is an evil unnecessary thing that diminishes the enjoyment of life completely.
7. You wont find new friends. (Unbelievable! I heard someone actually say this.)
I have more friends now than I did when I was a smoker. I have them because I eliminated certain borders in my life that nicotine addiction puts up. I have improved my level of fitness immensely over the last year that I just cant believe the energy levels I now have, even after working an eight or nine hour day. Bear with me as this is not about health, but making new friends. And there is a relevant point as to why I am talking about my health. Generally in my life I have always been active and I always have done some sort of sport. But as a smoker I really was holding my enjoyment back because I would not be able to go past a certain level of fitness because of the limitations to your lung and blood capacity that nicotine and smoking causes. I would go to the gym , do some weights , the static bike, then a punch bag. But even with this form of exercise and a good diet, I was always being followed by the dark questions in my mind as to who do I think I am kidding doing all these sports trying to look good on the outside, but knowing full fact that my insides were being poisoned and the two just don’t go together. Smoking and sport is a huge No No.
My point here is this. Sport, whether as a profession or as a hobby should always be enjoyed. It’s true that to excel in your chosen sport you need to make some kind of effort to improve your level or skill in it. But still, even this should be enjoyed, and any results that show improvement make it worth the effort, and you feel great because of your achievements. Now as a smoker you can’t do this because you are constantly nagging yourself, fighting with the addiction and suffering from forced limitations.
This takes away the true element of sport or fun activities that require some work from your lungs. As i mentioned, I used to pump weights and I would look in the mirror and see great outside results but I knew I was a mug and I was only lying to myself because to achieve a true healthy strong body did not mean just big muscles, but it meant good strong lungs, a strong heart and clean oxygenated blood. Strong nerve endings, and a whole bunch of other stuff you need to be a completely health strong muscular athlete. I had the muscles. That was it. The rest of me inside was being poisoned and I knew it and I hated it. It was this, that took away the enjoyment of the sport I was doing. I am a good swimmer. I used to play water polo and I knew that I could be great at this sport but something more evil was