Quitting Smoking and its associated Drama
Hi, I wasn't quite sure where exactly to post this question so I took the liberty of reasoning that surely since it regards my health then why not in this section.
I am a caucasian male in his late twenties who has,lets say, sometimes succumbed to lifes guilty pleasures and is noticing a effect from some of these said pleasures. Okay I tell a lie, just one of them. Smoking cigarettes. I wonder why I do engage in this filthy habit at times but on the same hand I do occasionally enjoy a cigarette and smoke inside my lungs. Nothing wrong with this you might say, thousands in fact hundreds of millions would agree with that statement. I also know that a decent percentage of that last staggering statistic are of a like mindedness to how I am at this current moment. I mean lets face it Cigarettes kill you. The contents within them are undeniably just another method of slow poisoning excepting one not so small detail. They are legal.
Now this post is in no way meant to be a rant on the legality of governments endorsing or not endorsing a product that is scientifically proven to cause numerous terminal illness` and other less lethal maladies. It is not to question someone's else right to damage their own and others bodies by unwittingly( a majority of the time) polluting the air around them with second hand smoke which apparently is up to 15 times more toxic than the initial amount of smoke.
It is not a big waving middle finger to the tobacco companies who are more or less given carte blanche by governments and unwitting stockholders to ensure that my generation and the ones previous and to follow this one will be afflicted with who knows what sort of cancers and terminal illness.
To lay the blame of such utter and total lack of consideration to the men,women and children of this stinking mass of humanity that is Earth squarely on the shoulders of the capitalistic little conglomeration that is the Tobacco Company Family (BAT,PM etc) would be unfair to say the least. In fact it would be plain wrong of me to suggest any otherwise. Perhaps it could be a little fairer to say that these mentioned companies,corporations and conglomerates who`s actions combined with the actions of a desperate few nations who in their desperate struggle to try and assume world dominance and economic superiority brought our unwilling society into the "Nuclear" or "Atomic" age.
Yes I`m not that blind to other quite relevant factors in relation to cancer and other problems we face to our health in today's world. In fact I have trouble sometimes distinguishing the line between smoking related illness/diseases and environmental and genetic factors.
For example I may be able to keep on with this pathetic habit of mine until I die of natural causes i.e: old age, because my forebearers were from the "Deep end of the gene pool" and they may have absolutely no effect on my health and wellbeing aside from making me smell revolting and considering the future of being a "social outcast". But on the other side of that coin I may be a coal miner who doesn't smoke but has to sustain environmental factors that could and would affect parts of my body that smoking cigarettes will affect, and who also has to deal with other peoples second hand smoke away from his workplace and contract lung,throat and other such cancers without being a willing participant for lack of a better word.
In fact you are most probably wondering where the question in this monologue is going to arrive.
Well despair not for here it is.
Since I want to give away this habit that could possibly end my life prematurely and I am quite aware of other factors that could accomplish that same point I wonder whether the numerous quitting aids that have flooded the market are reliable.
I have tried the Nicobate patches but they make me feel nauseous, the same goes for the gum and inhaler. I came across one called NicoBloc quite recently but cannot find it locally nor can I find any decent results of studies with this particular brand/device of quitting aid. This method involves placing droplets of a liquid which apparently blocks the nicotine and other harmful substances from flowing into your mouth/lungs when inhaling the smoke. So far aside from having a stressful time going cold turkey which has failed me several times I think that this could perhaps be a viable option for me.
I have perused the producers of this products` website but they are surprisingly lax with the information I am chasing which annoys me to no end. So here I am asking for any help you may offer.
And yes am am also alive to the likelihood of people, who after struggling through my post may brand me a big time wanker for writing a lengthy post which although relevant to my question has purely just been to give my two cents on cigarette smoking and the benefits of me not indulging in the habit but all humour aside it is a pressing issue in today's society and I for one will not be supporting it for much longer.
Thanks for your time.
