A smoking addiction means a person has formed an uncontrollable dependence on cigarettes to the point where stopping smoking would cause severe emotional, mental, or physical reactions.
I know that smoking is harmful and addictive, but few people realize just how risky and addictive it is.
Most smokers want to stop and do indeed try, but only one in three succeeds in stopping permanently. By this time, maybe much harm may have been done to the body - some of it maybe irreversible.
- Those who eventually quit smoking usually try to stop two or three times before they're successful.
- Onlysmall percent of smokers successfully quit each year.
The reason why I fail to stop is because Im addicted. Being addicted does not mean that I cannot stop - only that it is likely to be difficult. Anyone can succeed if he or she goes about it in the right way.
How to stop - and, especially, when I stop - is a very personal matter. Only I know what I have to give up, and how the benefits of smoking can be weighed against the benefits of stopping. Harassment and pressure from others who do not understand is often unhelpful. I will only stop when I have made a firm decision. When I do make up my mind, however, I can succeed, regardless of how addicted I may be.
"If you stop smoking before or during middle age (age 35 to 50), you will avoid about 90 percent of the lung cancer risk. If you are currently middle-aged, you are also more likely to succeed in quitting now than when you were younger." - some website.
"Chances are that about one in three smokers who do not stop will eventually die because of their smoking. Some will die in their 40s, others will die later. On average, they will die 10 to 15 years earlier than they would have died from other causes." - some website
sheessshhh.. >.<
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