subject: Why The Smartest Americans Don't Smoke? [print this page] In most cases, between starting smoking and the moment when the smoker decides for the first time something is wrong, 10 to 20 years pass.Once the moment of "the first cigarette" has passed, that person will not smoke more than 1 to 5 cigarettes a day for a couple of months. But in time, smoking will become part of everyday activities, it will intensify from one month to the other until it becomes a habit.
Smoking is indeed a habit. And by this we understand an individual dependency earned by repeating frequently the same actions or a particular way of doing something. Stress is also a factor of smoking, and everyday activities can be stressful. If you use to make investments, using materials that teach you all about foreclosure profit methods can reduce the stress a lot.
There are other habits we have, but we can not compare them to smoking, because smoking is a real danger to our health. Even a shallow reading of the professional literature will reveal the fact that those who smoke for more than 10 years, and they smoke a lot, at least a pack of cigarettes a day, will live less than their non-smoking colleagues who never smoked in their life. After 20 - 30 years of smoking, people will start showing the negatives effects of cigarettes, by either developing cancer or other respiratory or cardio-vascular diseases. Unfortunately, once these diseases installed, quitting can not be done so easily.
It is much harder to quit smoking than to start smoking. The nicotine dependency which can show signs even after 6 months of regular smoking in young people, can cause quitting to be more difficult than expected. Out of all components of a cigarette, the nicotine is the only one that can cause dependency. This dependency is characterized by a few symptoms: organism's tolerance to tobacco, the continuous desire of smoking, the repetitive quitting tries followed by failure and the necessity of obtaining the positive psychic effect. Nicotine has a discrete euphonious effect on our mind, and smokers become more stimulated, more happy and can even prove better concentration once they've finished a cigarette.
No matter how great the pleasure implied by a cigarette might be or the stimulant effect of smoking over intellectual activities, is it really worth risking your health? Nicotine dependency is compared to the dependency caused by drugs as heroine, so it can not be left aside. Next to nicotine we also breathe substances similar to those used to gas people to death during the second world war, so quitting this nasty habit is a must for everyone.
