The fact that the world is mired in tobacco smoke, we seriously realized in 1988. It was then that the World Health Organization (WHO) took the initiative to stop the spread of nicotine addiction on the planet. The twelve-year struggle is already yielding results: according to the TNS Marketing Index (2009) – TSN Russia, the number of Russian smokers has decreased by 2,4 million people. But the number of people suffering from tobacco addiction is still large. For example, according to Rospotrebnadzor, in Russia alone, over 30% of women and 65% of men smoke.
Why do people smoke?
It all starts from childhood. Teenagers try to smoke for self-expression, so they want to look older and more respectable. And all because they did not receive enough love and attention from their parents in time – they did not listen to their child and did not perceive it as a person.
Older girls and guys also hide their complexes in the smoke: insecurity, stiffness, fear of saying or doing something stupid (it’s better to smoke this moment), the desire to look special or, conversely, to be closer to the people if all friends smoke.
For many, a cigarette in their mouths is a protest against the ban on smoking. Now, if smoking became fashionable, most of them would immediately give up the habit, so as not to be like everyone else.
A person who smokes more and more often finds time for a cigarette, convincing everyone and himself that only it calms and helps pass the time.
So, there are many reasons to start smoking, but there is only one way to quit: to love yourself. After all, what is addiction to a cigarette? Nothing more than self-dissatisfaction (subconscious or overt). After all, if a smoker loved his body, would he have allowed a trash heap in his lungs? Hardly…
But, as practice shows, loving yourself is much more difficult than believing that cigarettes are not harmful to health. And let the harm come in ten years, which is now for a smoker equivalent to the word “never”, but there is no need to doubt: this moment will come.
Vladimir Filippovich Levshin, head of the prevention department of the Russian Cancer Research Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, an expert of the Nicorette brand, knows this for sure.