Smoking bans
Reasons and advice
Reasons why I smoke:
- It relaxes me!
- Well... from a medical point a view it's not really like that, your heart beats faster and you breathe harder. Actually as you think you are relaxing you are tiring your organism. More easy to relax is to get out with your friends in a park, enjoy the fresh air, or maybe you can just go out and have a soda. You are developing your social skills and you are filling better.
- This is what my parents/relatives/teachers do! So? You also aren't doing everything the adults do or teach. Let's be serious, if you would do everything they say, you wouldn't be smoking right now would you?
- It's hard to give up smoking, that's true, but in time you will notice the effects that smoking has upon you: waking up in the morning with some of that coughing, phlegm in your mouth, or with yellower teeth ... these are all reasons that could make you stop.
- But if for yourself you don't do anything than what fault do people around you have? Think about the last time a 1950's old rusty car passed by you and that smell of a tired, broken and consumed vehicle hit you and stayed on your clothes... You looked with mercy at that poor driver who cannot take good care of the things he likes. Think that this is the way non-smokers see you...
- You don't take care of your body or your mind and the same way that that car's smell annoyed you, the same way they are getting annoyed buy your cigarette smoke.
- Helps me belong to the group!
- Yes, you are correct. We were also pupils, and we also saw the "cool" smoking gangs. Well... Sure everybody wants to be there, one of the most important conditions is smoking!
- More over smoking is a capital condition if you don't have anything to say, you can't make any good jokes, you follow the leader and you do what he says.
- But do you really want to be just a puppet, just a voice behind the "boss"?
- What if with the money from two packs you would buy yourself a good joke book, memorize a couple and at the next meeting surprise everybody with your nice new sense of humor.
- Or what if you could, instead of smoking and laughing at the bad jokes of your fellow cigarette buddies, you would search online half on hour for some smart answers with a slightly hidden humor and sarcasm... these being your weapons for your next meeting in order to maintain yourself in the group... these and not the cigarette.
- Remember, it's a lot easier to maintain yourself in the group by smoking and while being overlooked and out of the spotlight.
- You can always remain isolated or even kicked out, while if you are a spiritual person you will be there all the time, appreciated and respected by all the rest who will even want to be like you.
- It's hard to quit smoking
- Being dependent with this activity, with the action of smoking is tied to a lot of other actions you do daily (when you are irritable you smoke, when you are angry you smoke, when you are nervous you smoke, when you go out you smoke)
- They are all tied together and your brain asks you to smoke when you do that sort of thing (it has become a habit)
- We all know, the coolest thing about smoking is that gesture with which a smoker lights his cigarette, so carelessly, the taste doesn't matter (when I used to smoke in high school I couldn't tell the difference between different types of cigarettes). Nevertheless, there are other gestures which are much more interesting, more attractive (for girls, crossing your hand through your hair, for boys, throwing and catching a ball in its flight or a hand carelessly hanged on your coat's button)
- It's all about will, if you quit cigarettes, you show that you're superior to all the immature people your age and you already have a dose of self control that you can use to make your life nicer, better and happier
For girls
So now let's get to the specifics. You are a lady, "in fashion", with a boyfriend and a car. He got you a nice perfume for you birthday, nice, special, and very expensive. You wear it, to show him how much you appreciate him, and how much you liked his gift, and wanting to give something back, you go with your girlfriends at the mall to find something for him. And you feel the need for a smoke, so you smoke. And maybe you smoke another one... And you find him something great, you go to him, you smile at him, you tell him how much you liked the present and how much you appreciate it. He seems a bit cold, a bit distant, not to excited to see you . Why ? It's easy, the fine perfume is not there anymore, it was replaced by a heavy nicotine smell. The poor guy can't get why you liked so much his perfume when you decided to replace it with something else...
Or, let's presume you just bought yourself a new dress, it is lovely, you like it like crazy, you go to the party, you smoke, people around you smoke, and you get back home and suddenly you realize that your new and beautiful dress has a repelling smell. Unfortunately getting the smoke out of your dress is very hard, you will either have to take it to a dry cleaners, which is expensive, or you will let it sit on the balcony, in air (lovely during winter) and wait for a week or two or three. And if all of these seem to much than you will have to buy yourself a new dress, and that would we bad... wouldn't it?
Or let's presume that you've learned a new type of kiss with which you want to impress him. And you begin kissing him, and suddenly his ayes pop out and he pulls back. You look at him amazed, disgruntled and upset. Why did he act like that? Eh... Guess you already know by now, it's easy, it's because the cigarette leaves an awful BO. A smell that barely goes away with a dentist's toothbrush, let alone with a personal tooth-brush, tooth paste, mouth wash or gum.
Smoking, especially with girls, is frowned upon. A poll make in U.K. shows that over 70% of the boys aged between 14 and 20 would rather go out with a non smoking girl. Reasons? Nothing is more easy to understand: a girl that smokes harms (besides herself) the people around her( and the Englishmen are highly aware of this).A girl that smokes cannot enjoy a simple walk not to mention mountain climbing because she doesn't have a good physical condition. And sometimes half way there she ruins the romantic moment when she feels the need to have a smoke. A girl that smokes loses from the femininity that guys like so much, not to mention that she is less likely to be considered a good, trust worthy girl that you can present to your parents...
So... girls.... next time you light a cigarette think that you are not proving that you are "rebels", you just prove that you lack the will to give up.
For guys
You are cool, you smoke because it fits you, and your gang. Some of the most beautiful girls swarm around you. But recently you have started noticing that only the smoking girls are still getting close to you, the rest of them just pass by you, smiling politely.
You wonder why. It's easy, very easy. The main motives would be that: you smell badly, your teeth are not as white as they used to (you no longer have the Tom Cruise smile that everybody envied), when you hold the girl by her hand or when you hold her in your arms she doesn't feel you but rather the smoke you just had. Besides that, you girlfriend probably wants to kiss you in public sometimes, to show her how much you love her. Unfortunately each time she gets close she is repelled by the smell and by the risk of having her clothes impregnated with the smell of smoke. Maybe you are the most beautiful, the most spiritual, but she would rather she wouldn't have her eyes red from smoking and she would prefer to be able to wear those clothes a 2nd time. And then, your kiss feels sour, bitter ...and that can be an unpleasant thing when she has just finished a nice tasting gum or a pretzel from the booth.
There is also the fact that you suddenly realize that you don't have as much energy as you used to. You can't run as much, you don't seem as fit. And all of this because you have been smoking together with your colleagues around the football field. And suddenly problems start appearing...
