Here is where the
problem lies: addiction. The sad thing is that most
people don’t realize this.
They puff away on
their cigarettes and attach a lot of definitions to it. I
have taken care to include some of the most popular
excuses that people attach to their habit of smoking.
EXCUSE
#1 - It relieves
stress
It really doesn’t. Your body and mind are capable of
handling a lot of stress and you do not need any alkaloid
to lend external support. The fact is that once your
brain is addicted to nicotine, it kind of weakens and
becomes unable to handle problems. The result is that you
get stressed up very fast and your brain starts demanding
its doze of nicotine. When you puff away, you give it the
nicotine and you feel as if your stress is relieved.
EXCUSE
#2 - It drives away
sleep
Sleep is a natural response of the body. Our body needs
rest and it has the right to demand this rest from time
to time. When you take a puff, the alkaloids go straight
to your brain and interfere with the working thus
confusing the brain. You might be able to ward off sleep
but you are in fact interfering with the functioning of
your brain, which is indeed playing with fire.
EXCUSE
#3 - It perks me up
Maybe, but isn’t that a kind of external perk?
Isn’t that another way of saying, I am unable to
keep in high spirits by myself so I need to depend on
cigarettes? Hey, look at all those little children, they
are always in the highest of spirits and they do not need
any alkaloids for that. You should lessen the burdens on
your shoulders and take life as it comes.
Most people wrongly think that it is only narcotic drugs
that are addictive. This is a very wrong notion indeed.
Nicotine too is as addictive as any narcotic. Once you
get used to it, it is not going to be easy to break away
from it.