We all know that smoking will kill you in long term and I think this is the worst investment that a person can make in his life. I don't want to tell you what to do, or maybe I want, but just follow me for another cigarette( 4 minutes ).
I challenge all smokers to tell me one good reason why I should start smoking and I will. I was thinking to a lot of reasons why I should do it and I didn't found one. If you are going to tell me that 'Pleasure' is the best reason I will tell you that's more stupid than smoking. Until you find one good reason, I will tell you few good reasons why you should stop smoking and it will make you a happier person!
You will gain more time!
That's right, you will have more time for you and for doing the things you really like. For example, an averrage smoker will burn one packet of cigarettes daily. That means 20 cigarettes for 4 minutes/cigarette wich is 80 minutes gone every day from your life just to blow up some smoke. If is not much for you, then let's think in long term investment: 80 minutes x 365 days = 29200 minutes. If you want to know how much in hours: 60m = 1h ... 29200m =486.66666h (29200/60) and in days... 24h = 1day ...486.66666h = 20.27777 days every year!
You will have more money!
A packet of cigarettes is between 4-6€ every day and in 30 days will be around 120-180€. Not much? Well in a year will be around 1440-2160€. Those money you are spending every year for nothing, but there is something else; you could save those money. This can be your ticket to a nice vacantion with your family, the person you love or with your friends. I was at the SteemFest in Amsterdam with less money for one week so I didn't invented all this!
You will be more healthy!
This is the most important reason why I said that smoking is the worst investment that a person can do in his life. Six million people die annually due to smoking and the number of victims could reach 8 million in 2030. Let's just say that you don't care about your health and your health worth zero. What about the people you love and care about? How much their health worth? You should think about this now, in this moment, until is not to late and regret it!
You will look better!
Tobacco smoke consists of thousands of substances that damage the skin. Smoking is associated with premature skin ageing, and increased infections, as well as a number of skin disorders. There is a general observation that smokers tend to be more severely affected than non-smokers by the majority of inflammatory skin diseases. The gaunt skin of a 40 years old heavy smoker resembles that of non-smoking 70 years old, in long term!
Not only that you will look better, you will smell better than smokers. Let's say that you are the smoker and I'm the non-smoker. While you are waiting the bus, you smoke one cigarette. The bus is comming and after it stops you step in. I'm on the bus, and in the moment you are near me, I already know you are a smoker because you smell so bad that I have to turn around and walk away. If you are a smoker and you didn't know why people go away from you, now you know why! If you don't like to be the smoker we can switch it, but the effect is the same!
You will be a happier person!
How is posible that quitting smoking will make you a happier person? This is what I think:
You will have more time to spend with the people you like and more money with which you can buy presents, food or pay the bills. You will be less stressed. A lot of people are smoking because they think that will reduce stress, maybe is true, but is for a very short time. After 20-30 minutes you will do the same thing. So my question is how stressed can be a person if he is smoking every 20-30 minutes? If you really want to reduce the stress for real you have to quit smoking. In long term, you will be a winner!
Smoking is like the 'Chinese drop' !
'Chinese drop' is the popular name of water torture. The water is allowed to flow easily drops on a person's head, leading gradually to the madness of the victim. It is assumed that torture comes from the fact that the water flows very slowly and very little at short intervals.
The smoke that you inhale during smoking is like the 'chinese drop'. It goes slowly inside your body at short intervals like drops on a person's head, leading to 'the madness of the victim' in this case to a sure slowly death.
If you want to quit smoking, first you have to stop smoking, not only using the words I want to quit smoking! Remember this: You are in control not the cigarette!
Here is the easiest way to stop smoking: Every time you want to burn a cigarette, try to imagine a person that is laughing at you because you are so stupid to pay him for your own death!
Don't listen to anybody and do what you like and love.
I think it should be more like;
Listen to everyone and do what's best for you and the people around you!
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Thank you very much!
I have yet another reason to quit smoking and drinking altogether.
Then you have enough money for weed lol.
:)) better weed than tobacco! Weed = 0 kills :Tobacco = 6 million people/year! And the winner is WEED!
And it might even help you! Usually in a long term it does more harm than good, but weed was the only thing that pulled me out of depression and alcoholism. I consider that a tremendous win!
Though I am still a smoker cough cough. Considering quitting for a while now. That's why I'm here :D
Also, you'll smell soooo much better to non-smokers once you stop. And so will your house. It will also stop turning yellow.
Nice read, all I can do is nod in agreement :-)
Thank you very much for your comment! Glad you like it @playfulfoodie! I also agree with your comment!
Still waiting for comments..
Me too @pjo! :D
I will Rs this 4 u 4 free.
I love cigarettes and cigarettes love me, currently I am not smoking and have not smoked since july 2016.
Probably in another few months I plan on taking up smoking again :)
Please do not worry your brain over my reasons, but they are simply what I LIKE to do.
Having said that yes I totally agree with you smoking is yucky and stupid and expensive and purely bad all round.
So is listening to the corporate media propaganda speech about Russia having a connection to Donald trump, but some people will believe it LOL...
This new age modern mellieum is crazy and people do crazy shiP all the time lol, life is for living...
So you wanted one good reason to take up smoking, smokers pay a lot of extra tax that non smokers do not pay, do you truly believe the failed lawyers who run congress would not increase EVERYONES taxation rates if all the smokers stopped paying taxation.
another reason for you to take up smoking is simple you will NEVER afford to retire so you might as well try and die younger LOL...
smoking kills and lung cancer is nasty but old age and depression and loneliness are a lot worse than lung cancer :)
Since you will be taking up smoking; try the MENTHOLS they smell a LOT better than the high octane full strength cigarettes ;)
So you are saying that I should start smoking because I don't pay some tax. Smokers pay extra taxes because they smoke, so why non-smokers should pay something they don't do. I don't want to get retire because I don't know when it will be.
Just because you are afraid of getting old that doesn't mean you have to die younger. You said that life is for living and I totally agree with you, but what you going to do if you want to live your life and lung cancer will not let you do that. Where is your choice to live your life! I tell you where: Is gone!
And you said: I love cigarettes and cigarettes love me, my question is: why you stopped smoking cigarettes if you love it. People don't quit to something they love for no reason that's for sure. I appreciate your feedback, but this is not a good reason for me to start smoking.
I wish you all the best, and if you stopped smoking let it that way my friend because getting old is something that nobody wants but when time comes is going to be all good!
I agree with @the-future
Smoking is one of the biggest quackery used these days.
You are right @denisoi it is!
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I am a smoker and trust me it is not good at all. I don't have health problems, i feel healthy but i know ... it is bad. A good reason to smoke does not exist but in this life we use some bad things that are not good for our health , basicaly almost everithing we eat , we drink in this days it is not healty but we do this, why ? Because are teasty somehow.
I understand you very good because I was there too. There are a lot of things very healthy and also very tasty.
Great post the-future and here are my 2 cents . Us an ex smoker all i can say, it was the best decision in my life when i decided i do not needed that habit anymore to be happy. I smoked for almost 30 years and i know all about that coughing , smelling and wasting of my time. I did not quit cold turkey , but slowly , slowly getting lees every day for a long time until i decided its time to cut it of, once and for all . I was down to about 3-4 a day and i said to my self, that is enough and i did just that . Its about 8 years since then and i am not missing anything and i never needed to replace it with some other stuff. I like to have control over my own life and not having something that controls me . I love to have a healthy life style and once you get over those nasty habits you feel so much better then before. We all make our own choices , lets make the better ones for you .
You took the best decision when you quit smoking and start to live a healthy life! Thank you very much for your nice comment, and I hope people will start to stop smoking.