Your Reasons to Keep Smoking

What are the reasons and excuses you make to explain why you are still smoking?

Stress

One of the main excuses people use is stress: about work, family, kids etc. But if each day is different – and has different levels of stress – then you should smoke different amounts. On stress-free days (a day off work, when the kids are away …) there would be no need to smoke at all. Is that how it works?

For relaxation

This is perhaps the greatest myth of all, because nicotine is a stimulant and it can’t actually relax you at all. When you smoke, nicotine gets into your bloodstream and travels throughout your body – even to your heart. Because your heart reacts to nicotine as a poison, it beats faster to try to get rid of it. Your stomach also produces extra stomach acid when you smoke cigarettes.

All this means that your body is working overtime to try to get rid of all the poisons and toxins – and it also means that you are physiologically unable to smoke and relax.

No willpower

Everybody has a great deal of willpower or they wouldn’t be able to do the everyday things we do to survive – such as work, pay bills, buy a house. We do these things even if we don’t want to; that’s willpower at work! So if you use your willpower to give up cigarettes, you undoubtedly can.

Enjoyment

Out of the amount of cigarettes you smoke everyday, how many do you really enjoy? Perhaps 4? So if you weigh up that 16 minutes of enjoyment a day against the cons of smoking (health risks, money, personal hygiene) you have to ask yourself if that small amount of pleasure is worth it.