Sue Waggoner
Professor Keene
English 1302
27 October 2003
Quitting - A Good Thing?
While some who smoke may live to die of natural causes, generally that is not the case. Smoking has a profoundly negative effect on a person's social, health, mental, and economic life. "Cigarette smoking remains the primary cause of preventable death and morbidity in the United States" (Williams). While smoking may have a few benefits, the overall negative effect on one's health and others around them greatly outweighs those small benefits and not worth the risks involved.
Smoking can be a good way to strike up a conversation, and smokers often use cigarettes as a social tool to make friends. However, it also tends to give a person bad breath and lingering bad smell, that can be extremely noticeable to people who don't smoke. Additionally, the people they hang around with, those who they take their breaks with, and the restaurants they choose affect smokers in their social lives.
Smokers often miss out on conversation when they go to a nonsmoking section, having to step away for a cigarette. Many nonsmokers hate hugging, kissing, or getting close to smokers because of the way they smell. A nonsmoker or ex-smoker does not have to deal with the generally negative social attitude towards smoking (Dardis).
Smokers have a propensity to be skinnier before quitting due to the smoking lifestyle and habits caused by it, which include smoking in place of eating or drinking. Smoking is also used as a version of stress relief, which can avert harmful behavior. However, that does not help build positive personality traits, nor does it induce development of other methods to deal with stress. Smokers often become grouchy when they do not have a cigarette. "Quitting smoking regularly causes short-term after-effects,
Quitting smoking is only in the mind
that was a very cool article you wrote about quitting smoking, but i also believe that to quit smoking you have to want it... smoking is strictly an intellectual thing thats in the mind of the person... smoking, once addicted, becomes a daily routine and your mind gets used to it> which controls when your lungs to tell you when you want another cigarette... you ofcourse listen and light it up... and like this your mind takes control and tells you to take more cigarettes <sort of like taking advantage> but if you dont fight your mind youll lose... i believe anyone can quit smoking in one hour if they really fought against their mind and body... and would keep fighting until your mind records that this "fighting" process is a daily routine and youll be fighting yourself not to take another cigarette without knowing it...
this is my belief that has worked with my friends that tried it...
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