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Of My Birthday & The Resolve to Quit Smoking !!!
In 2012 on this very day that is the 1st of May , I had resolved to quit smoking once and for all . Never again have I smoked a single cigarette to this day & if all goes well I shall live up ....
(picture Kumrat Circa 2016)
In 2012 on this very day that is the 1st of May , I had resolved to quit smoking once and for all . Never again have I smoked a single cigarette to this day & if all goes well I shall live up ....
(picture Kumrat Circa 2016)
... to that Resolution Life Permits .
What started as a seemingly innocuous one off avenue for stress management with college buddies in 2004 turned into an inescapable addiction . And like all or almost all of 1.3 Billion(Source WHO) living cigarette smokers who are hooked ...
What started as a seemingly innocuous one off avenue for stress management with college buddies in 2004 turned into an inescapable addiction . And like all or almost all of 1.3 Billion(Source WHO) living cigarette smokers who are hooked ...
onto this toxic cocktail of doom , I wanted to bail out and quit . But quitting this Mistress is much harder than it seems . The instant gratification induced by the Tobacco industry has perhaps only been overtaken over the last decade or so by ...
the Instant Gratification Enterprise of the Infotech Revolution in the form of Social Media apps .
Like every other smoker I tried to quit many times until I reached the point of no return in my hate exceeding the love I had to cigarettes . And then it ..
Like every other smoker I tried to quit many times until I reached the point of no return in my hate exceeding the love I had to cigarettes . And then it ..
was all a game of holding the nerve and Will Power . Every smoker hates the addiction , the helplessness that he feels towards that one last cigarette . But that last one never arrives . Psychologically I completely wiped off the memory of that Drag induced by ...
puffing & Inhaling the thick tasteful smoke .
Later on after quitting , I realised out of a curios research that I had employed unwittingly , the Allan Carr method to quit smoking .
A key fact on the WHO website reads ;
Later on after quitting , I realised out of a curios research that I had employed unwittingly , the Allan Carr method to quit smoking .
A key fact on the WHO website reads ;
“Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year. More than 7 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while around 1.2 million are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.”
For a comparison COVID has killed 3.17 million people ...
For a comparison COVID has killed 3.17 million people ...
worldwide since the outbreak .
Even though death can knock at our doorsteps anytime as the stoics keep referring to Momento Mori at all times . But here a quality life is at steak . A smoke free life holds more meaning & value for the individual & the people around him/her .
Even though death can knock at our doorsteps anytime as the stoics keep referring to Momento Mori at all times . But here a quality life is at steak . A smoke free life holds more meaning & value for the individual & the people around him/her .
On my birthday the message for all those afflicted with this tobacco induced pandemic is to quit it before it’s too late & for those contemplating to fine solace in it , well there are countless more healthier natural avenues to explore .
A happy labour day to all the hardworking , honest to the bone & worthy working Classes & hopefully next year this day may not fall on a weekend so that we can celebrate it a day off 
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