We see what information pressure is on the part of society on a person who smokes tobacco. Starting from frightening pictures and inscriptions on packets of cigarettes, articles and publications in the press about the terrible harm of smoking and television transmissions, to laws restricting smoking in public places.
Such pressure from the society is ineffective and forms in the smoker only an inferiority complex and a sense of guilt, which increases after every unsuccessful attempt to quit smoking. And this is not counting the price of a pack of cigarettes.
In Russia, she is in the region of $ 2 per pack, and accordingly the smoker spends at least $ 60 per cigarette per month, subconsciously condemning herself for every such "useful" purchase.
And is there any benefit from such a struggle on the part of the state with this pernicious habit? Is there any benefit, in general,
That a person constantly condemns and torments himself after every cigarette smoked and an unsuccessful attempt to quit smoking. This becomes an endless struggle, an endless self-flagellation.
Does it make sense in this?
I offer another approach to expensive smokers.
I propose to radically change the attitude towards smoking.
Yes,
Smoking harms your health, but by and large, it does not really have such a fundamental value - you will die 10 years earlier or later. What is 10 years compared to eternity).
You smoke for 25 years and you turn these 25 years of your life into an endless war with smoking. You turn your life into a battle, you miss life itself.
And then we need to figure out what more harm - from smoking or endless inner struggle and self-torture.
I suggest you to forget all these complexes and feelings of guilt regarding smoking and start smoking with pleasure.
Only do it consciously, do not smoke mechanically - Smoke consciously.
Let it become your meditation.
Select for smoking a certain time and place, do not smoke "for the company." Let this become your sacrament. Watch how the desire to smoke a cigarette comes. As you open a pack, pull out a cigarette, light a match or a lighter. As you do the first puff, watch the smoke that you exhale,
How the sensations in the body change.
Be here and now, be watchful.
Turn smoking into meditation, start smoking with pleasure, start "smoking full chest"
And you will see that you will smoke twice less, stop torturing and torturing yourself, a "burden of responsibility" will fall from your shoulders.
You will understand,
That in smoking in fact there is nothing that you need to pay for your health.
In the end, you will easily quit smoking, but not through a lever of pressure from society or self-flagellation, but as a result of the understanding that there is nothing interesting in smoking.
Smoking just disappears from your life just as easily,
As you part with an unnecessary thing to you.
Well, if, nevertheless, smoking gives you something and this process is necessary for you, at least you stop condemning yourself and at least you will enjoy your habit and life as a whole.
After all, the most important sin in life is if you do not enjoy "here" and "now"!
If you do not enjoy life here and now - you are sinning.
I apologize for the inaccurate translation of the text from Russian into English
Photo - Yandex pictures
My article in Russian in the social network Golos
