Quit Smoking - Is It That Simple?
The raging topic that has been literally burning the world up in smoke is whether it is possible for anyone to quit smoking.
Surely there are health issues involved with smoking! This has been discussed at length at various seminars, discussion boards, research papers and a host of other media, but the question remains unanswered.
People agree that at some point in time it becomes necessary to turn away from cigarettes but it is not as easy as is normally portrayed.
There are exceptions.
Some say it is nothing but will power that is required to quit smoking.
Others argue that a chain smoker who gets through more than three packs of cigarettes in a day would definitely find it difficult to quit his favorite smoke.
There have been extensive steps taken by some of the most affected countries - cigarette prices are layered with extortionate duties and taxes but there seems to be no let up.
Cigarette packs are being decked up with some of the most gruesome pictures of what happens with smoke dissolving in the human system leading to some of the most painful deaths.
Manufacturers keep shifting stocks to the distribution system and the complicated distribution system does not waste a minute in getting the product in the hands of the consumer.
In the ultimate analysis, the common man does not see any reason as to why he should actually quit smoking.
Symposiums and road shows are organized to drive home the point of how smoking kills, but then who cares? Only the most self-enlightened people understand that smoking actually kills.
It is said that a cigarette has a burning life of fourteen minutes and a huge amount of propaganda was at one time immediately kicked up about this.
Except for some, these expenses really do not pay.
To 'quit' may do a world of good to most cigarette smokers but because of the half-hearted approach of its creators, the concept remains at the very nursery level even today.
Surely there are health issues involved with smoking! This has been discussed at length at various seminars, discussion boards, research papers and a host of other media, but the question remains unanswered.
People agree that at some point in time it becomes necessary to turn away from cigarettes but it is not as easy as is normally portrayed.
There are exceptions.
Some say it is nothing but will power that is required to quit smoking.
Others argue that a chain smoker who gets through more than three packs of cigarettes in a day would definitely find it difficult to quit his favorite smoke.
There have been extensive steps taken by some of the most affected countries - cigarette prices are layered with extortionate duties and taxes but there seems to be no let up.
Cigarette packs are being decked up with some of the most gruesome pictures of what happens with smoke dissolving in the human system leading to some of the most painful deaths.
Manufacturers keep shifting stocks to the distribution system and the complicated distribution system does not waste a minute in getting the product in the hands of the consumer.
In the ultimate analysis, the common man does not see any reason as to why he should actually quit smoking.
Symposiums and road shows are organized to drive home the point of how smoking kills, but then who cares? Only the most self-enlightened people understand that smoking actually kills.
It is said that a cigarette has a burning life of fourteen minutes and a huge amount of propaganda was at one time immediately kicked up about this.
Except for some, these expenses really do not pay.
To 'quit' may do a world of good to most cigarette smokers but because of the half-hearted approach of its creators, the concept remains at the very nursery level even today.
