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What's your excuse for not quitting?
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Remember when you tried your first cigarette? Perhaps as a teenager, you probably choked and coughed violently and got sick. When you think about it, your body was actually telling you "This stuff is really bad for you!" If you ignored the warnings, you became addicted. Like any other addiction, cigarette smoking addiction is a disease. Even Philip Morris openly agrees with the doctors that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other serious diseases in smokers. When you're at the supermarket or in Church, you have probably noticed more than one sickly older person who's a slave to an oxygen tank, sometimes having to get around on an electric scooter. Oxygen tube in nose, making a "pssst...pssst...pssst..." sound. At one time, they were just as healthy as any normal person. These are the ex-smokers who are still alive today only because they managed to escape cancer. Just think - that could be you in 50, 40 or 30 years! "My Dad was a chain smoker and he admitted to me he would die smoking a cigarette, and sure enough, one day he sat down on the stairs took his last puff then died right there. He was 55." The majority of cigarette addicts in America would love to quit but don't know where to begin, or simply give up the idea of kicking the habit, assume that quitting is impossible. Cigarette smoking no longer has the glamor appeal it once had before doctors were aware of the health problems and dangers. To most Americans, including many smokers, it's just a dirty habit. The Lucky Strikes or Chesterfields your father or grandfather used to smoke were bad enough and caused plenty of early deaths, but today's cigarettes are far more dangerous and addictive than ever before. Many industrial chemicals and other additives are incorporated into the tobacco, some to make cigarettes more addictive, or burn better. Smokers have been brainwashed to believe that quitting is impossible. Are you a slave to cigarettes? Do you really want to quit but threw in the towel on quitting long ago? Maybe you have tried the Patch, nicotine inhalers, pills, or nicotine gum without success. Cigarette addiction is very complex involving psycological as well as chemical dependancy. Simply slapping on the Patch doesn't work most of the time. Don't think think maybe it's time to quit?
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