| "Quit Smoking" is the slogan of the hour. We all know | | | | body's needs but promises to deliver a trim and |
| that smoking is hazardous to health. It has very severe | | | | healthy you, producing undeniable pride and happiness |
| ill effects like respiratory problems, lung cancer, breast | | | | in your body, mind, and spirit. |
| cancer, bronchitis, emphysema, reproductory problems, | | | | Chain smokers should delay the next cigarette. In the |
| etc. It is thus the need of the hour that we should free | | | | meantime they should keep their hands busy and |
| ourselves from the clutches of the deadly disease. But | | | | minds diverted from the thoughts of smoking. They |
| it is not an easy task to actually quit smoking | | | | should drink water to keep cool and calm and resort to |
| completely once a person has started it. Smoking | | | | deep breathing. If still the urge is irresistible they can |
| makes a person its slave and he becomes addict to | | | | resort to use of chewing gums or fake cigarettes or |
| its use. | | | | herbal cigarettes. |
| Difficult but not impossible | | | | Seek Specialists help |
| It is though difficult but not impossible to quit smoking | | | | Also a person can take help of an acupuncture |
| because the word impossible itself says "i-m-possible". | | | | specialist or he may occasionally go for aromatherapy. |
| The most important attribute that a person needs to | | | | A person should also bring a major change in his |
| have to quit smoking is self-belief and persistence. It is | | | | routine to be on the smoke cessation wagon. He may |
| difficult to stay away from smoking in initial stages but | | | | change the route to his office, should take tea for |
| with the help of adequate medical aid and strong will | | | | coffee, should avoid the company of smokers, etc. |
| power if a person overcomes the initial bouts to | | | | Thus we should all come together and make |
| smoke, then he will be the master over this deadly | | | | concerted efforts to bring the smoking addiction to its |
| disease. He should love himself and not let the ill | | | | knees. All the smokers out there should take a vow |
| effects of smoking show on God's greatest creation. | | | | this minute that they will buy no more cigarettes. |
| As a stimulant to help him quit smoking a person | | | | Rather they will expense that money on their children, |
| should regularly exercise and meditate. This keeps him | | | | families, and their own health, which mean much more |
| physically fit and mentally strong. He should also take | | | | to them. |
| proper diet, because proper diet not only satisfies the | | | | |