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Quitting Smoking- A Personal Analysis |
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One thing that helps you in quitting smoking is a
complete personal analysis. Take a paper and make two columns in it. In
one column put heading, the cause for quitting. In another column, write
down the cause for taking up smoking.
Firstly,
write down the causes for taking up smoking. It may be some kind of
pressure, or family trouble or financial trouble or any other reason.
Now, find out whether these troubles still exist or not. If they do not,
then there is no need to smoke.
Now, write down the causes for
quitting smoking. It may due to the scare of deadly disease you may get,
or your fear of passing them to your family members. Thus, health is one
of the causes for quitting smoking.
However, it is quite possible
that health reasons will not convince you in quitting smoking. They all
have the possibilities. It is not sure that these things can happen.
Lung cancer might happen or you may die early.
There are certain
genuine causes that you are experiencing while smoking.
Write
down those causes in the second column. For instance, you experience
breathlessness while coming upstairs. Your feet are cold due to high
blood pressure. You are always suffering from cough and it makes you
feel uncomfortable.
Apart from health reasons, there are certain
other reasons also. Such as, premature aging and drying of skin are due
to smoking. Your fingernails, teeth are of yellow color and gives bad
impression. When you smoke at public places, people make faces at you.
You are spending a lot on cigarettes along with the mouth fresheners.
You can save a huge amount by quitting smoking. You can use that amount
for a good purpose. You can go for a holiday.
Think about your
family. They would feel more secure, after your quitting smoking. Your
house would be clean, no dirtier walls, or stinking cars. Several
genuine reasons are there for quitting smoking.
Thus, you can
divert your mind easily by thinking these genuine effects of smoking.
However, your hands are still free. Try to make your hands busy by
indulging it in some activities, for Instance knitting, cooking etc.
So,
do not waste time and go ahead.
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