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| How I stopped smoking |
There is nothing like having a cigarette when you are sitting under a tree on the grass or having a drink with friends. Yet, we all know that smoking is bad, bad, bad. It's dirty and stinky and bad. It's a big no no. Still that simply isn't enough of an incentive to not smoke.
What is an incentive is vanity. I've always looked young for my age and I have gotten older, I like that. However, I did notice that when I had a cigarette wrinkles would appear right above my mouth. Smoking would take away any youth I may have retained. Still...
Then one day, I read an article that talked about the cancer gene we all carry inside. That one cell needs just one thing to trigger it and at that point the next thing you know is you have a full blown case of cancer. Now the question I ask my self everytime I desire a cigarette is, "Is this the one cigarette that will trigger the cancer gene? Is this cigarette, this one cigarette worth it? To that I can and have said "No."
Now I have a new quest. My mother passed away at the young age of 72 from kidney failure. I'm sure her obesity attributed to it as well. So now I must ask my self if I want to learn from her experience or repeat it.
I don't want to walk. Idon't want to run. I don't want to swim and I don't want to ride bikes, I don't want to play tennis.
I don't want to be physical.
I also don't want to say good-by to the world sooner than is necessary. So as with the smoking question, I must ask my self each time I don't want to do the physcial activity if I am ready to start dying for that is what the body is doing when it isn't worked. Muscles atrophy, stamina drops, circulation slows down. I am to young to be old. Am I ready to quit?
The answer is I want to but I'm not going to quit whether I like it or not.
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Posted by Fracture on 2009-08-26 06:29:00 | Rating: | Views: 9
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