In my family, it would never occur to anyone to talk about «women’s smoking is the norm of modern life.» My parents told me this in childhood: “Do not nod at others — answer for yourself.” Others can both smoke and steal — that’s no excuse for us to do it. Similarly, I do and will do everything so that Sinton and smoking are «two things incompatible.»
I often hear: “I have been smoking for many years, a cigarette helps me both to get distracted from work for a couple of minutes, and to get carried away by discussing an important matter with someone.” The inability to distract from work and strike up a conversation without a cigarette is not a reason to smoke. You still have unmutilated genetics, and it is likely that your health will be enough to withstand smoking. This is quite realistic. But by destroying your health reserve by smoking, you will give your children both weaker health and the habit of smoking. In my opinion, this is a dishonorable act. Anyone who loves and respects their children quits smoking. And he begins to lead a healthy lifestyle — and for them too.
And about smoking as a norm, who introduced this norm? Maybe it is provided by nature? Maybe there is such a need of the body?
The answer is unambiguous — no. Moreover, nature provided that without smoking a person could live calmly and healthy. When you understand the physiology or biochemistry of the body’s work, you involuntarily become delighted — the human body is a perfect system! Verified by centuries of evolution, working flawlessly! And the more terrible it becomes to understand how the person himself kills this system. Is smoking the norm? And who needs this rule? Maybe ask the lungs poisoned by cigarette smoke? By the way, Cowboy, who advertised Marlboro cigarettes, died at the age of 35 from lung cancer — is this also the norm? Can you clarify it with your eyes? It’s unusual to think about it — but smoking is a sure way to visual impairment and, in especially severe cases, to blindness, this was a study in the UK institutes. By the way, you must not forget to tell your own stomach about smoking — so that, not knowing that this is the norm, it suddenly does not get sick with an ulcer. And just in case, inform your own heart, which honestly works, so that it does not accidentally catch a heart attack. Is this the norm? What the body reacts to with a failure of the respiratory system, a failure of the visual system, a myocardial infarction, a stomach ulcer?
Stop lying. Smoking is not the norm. This is an indicator of a person’s desire to indulge his own weakness. And self-love and weakness are not always compatible concepts.
No one is healthy enough to endure smoking. And the fact that smoking has not yet made itself felt does not mean at all that deadly and irreversible processes leading to cancerous tumors have not already begun at the biochemical level. The body is a stable system, it takes a long time to destroy it before it declares itself about its problems. Only then it will be too late.
“My relatives have been smoking for 30 years and nothing …” — Naive. Nothing means nothing in the body. We do not see those hundreds of reactions calibrated for optimal functioning. By the way, one of the problems of Chernobyl was that radiation cannot be noticed immediately, and cunning thieves roamed the cemetery of Chernobyl equipment, stole valuable things from there, not understanding how they could not be stolen — is this the norm? And then, ending their lives in radiological hospitals, they could not understand for a long time: what kind of misfortune is this? And most importantly, where from?
A worthwhile book that has already helped many thousands of people quit smoking is Aller Kar’s The Easy Way to Quit Smoking.