Five Reasons to Quit Smoking Again

Between health and financial reasons, why on earth would anyone want to be a smoker in the first place? The natural inclination seems it should be to quit smoking readily. But that's why smoking is called an addiction.

Five Reasons To Quit Smoking Again Number Five:

Even if I manage to not die on a hospital bed from cancer like Dad, my breath falls short upon one flight of stairs anymore. I've found myself breathing heavily sometimes just moving around my own house. I read once on a magazine page somewhere, long ago and far away, that lung capacity is considered a standard by which survivability of trauma could be determined.

I'd be the guy left behind in the jungle after a calamity and I'm kitty kibbles then. As long as I'm inhaling another small cylindrical, brown thing, wrapped in white paper, while lit and inhaling the smoke, I'm dead.

Five Reasons To Quit Smoking Again Number Four:

No more fun if I'm dead:

No more chatting with Janet. No more flirting with Jenny. No more chain letters from Abby. No more upfronts...if I don't give up cigarettes. We smokers murder ourselves. I've been murdering myself. Smoking has been a method and means of slow suicide over these last three decades because folks like myself are too chickenshit to live and be hurt.

I'll be damned if I'm throwing away fun with the harem for the comfort of not kicking the habit.

Five Reasons To Quit Smoking Again Number Three:

I want mastery over my Universe back by recognizing my powerlessness:

So much is affiliated with smoking , so that just "living" is a psychological anchor to the emotions involved in smoking, cravings, and mood. Those cravings are about to happen. They'll be repetitive, and constant-seeming, and they'll pass. A key to remember about cravings is they only last 30 seconds in reality. We merely dwell upon them longer.

Being online is also something well tied-in with the daily ritual and routines of living as a smoker. Time here in reality space is needed. Any recovering smoker will have to labor at re-connecting with real emotions, previously suppressed, and it's going to require focus on my part. I might even need a couple of months of time to do this. Hospitalization in a loony bin might even be called for. So, I'll see you folks around til I beat this. Ok? Ok!

Five Reasons To Quit Smoking Again Number Two:

Attractiveness:

I stink of cigarrette smoke and it's like being a walking, sweaty, weazing, balding, "almost-chubby," sorta-furry ashtray. Whom, that would be worth meeting, wants to stand next to a walking, sweaty, weazy, balding, "almost-chubby," sorta-furry ashtray? Tell me! This all isn't about wanting folks to like me. Quitting smoking is about being more like-able whether someone likes me or not.

Five Reasons To Quit Smoking Again Number One:

We only get one set of lungs -

I must quit smoking. This is no longer an option. There will be no more debate on the topic of nicotine. Repetitive actions of inhaling tobacco smoke into my lungs has diminished my lung capacity. Diminished lung capacity alone will bring a host of difficulties on a good day.

Five Reasons To Quit Smoking Again Bonus Biggie:

~I've seen a man die of Stage 4 small-cell carcinoma lung cancer~

I watched, over three weeks time as, the biggest man I'd ever known, lie in constant, repetitive, chronic pain. To watch a man go from around 250 to 97 pounds constantly suffering from the sting in the lungs is sobering. From that time in my life, to this very day, those memories play again for me.

My day may very well come yet. Maybe I don't help Mankind find commercially available, biological immortality, that retains the sense of individuality and continuity of memories. There's a likely chance that one day, Donald Pennington will die. Dad would agree, I'm sure that, I don't want my death to be from cancer. I must quit smoking

Wanna see some smoker lung? (Be prepared)
I might not pray...but you're welcome too.