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Electronic Cigarettes Review
A Long Time Smoker Speaks Out
For me smoking cigarettes is an addiction, an obsession. I have smoked most of my adult life. Sure-I quit several times-10 years being the longest period of abstinence. So if I could make it that long-what happened?
Well mostly it was a separation and ultimately a divorce that weakened my resolve.
We smokers make all sorts of excuses for continuing, but I am intelligent enough to realize that I'm just lying to my friends and family, and more importantly, I am lying to myself.
We smokers will grasp at any evidence that smoking is OK! My step-grandfather smoked a pack of unfiltered Camels for as long as I knew him. He was in his mid-nineties when he died-not of cancer or heart disease.
We can call the cause of death simply old age. . .
Now this is, of course, a pretty weak excuse for me since he wasn't a blood relative, so I can't claim any hereditary benefits. Electronic Cigarettes Review
I'm Really in The Nicotine Rut
My days all begin about the same way: During the week I drag my weary butt out of bed at 5:00 a. m. , shower, dress and then walk the dog. All this time until I hook up Cindy's leash I'm thinking about that first cigarette.
And so it goes throughout the day. Oh, I have cut back a bit. One pack usually lasts a day and a half. As I write this I often think of myself as a 73 year old idiot. But you see. . . I am addicted to nicotine.
Government at every level has come down on us smokers. Most places are off limits and smoking has been banned anywhere I go.
Is There Any Hope?
At times over the years I've been given something to hang onto. Medical science will come up with some new finding that gives me a glimmer of hope. But is there really any defense against the myriad health problems that smoking lays claim to? Quitting seems like medical science's only solution.
A short time ago -in an email exchange, a lifelong friend said, "You've been smoking so long that it probably won't make any difference if you did quit. " Unfortunately I tend to believe him.
So what is on the horizon for us smokers? The most recent flash of light came from a report I read about a very amazing discovery. I was researching material for an article I was writing on "free radicals. " The free radicals I speak of are not a bunch of 1960's flower children who avoided prison. The free radicals in this case are inside our bodies and they are an enemy of our good health. Electronic Cigarettes Review