I am a smoker, i spend around £140 a month on cigarettes as a 20 a day smoker.
True, i do regret starting this habit, as yes, it is vile in some ways.
However, i very rarely drink, maybe once every few months.
As a non drinker i find it difficult to understand why anybody would want to get intoxicated on a regular basis, so in reply to your query surrounding smokers who regret it but don't stop, can i remind you that smoking is the hardest habit out of any to quit, even more addictive than heroin.We don't quit because it's difficult and takes more willpower than i actually have at this present moment in time.
In your entry, you referred to getting 'quite drunk' so why would you want to do that again?
A few years ago, i experimented with alcohol and got absolutely ratted, to the point where i was verging on being paraletic, guess what? I never did that again, as i felt like i was dying.
So your response to trying a cigarette was not so different from my experiment with alcohol, i hated it and never did it again.
I agree that smoking does have damaging side affects, cancer being a major concern obviously, but I've known many people that have died from cancer and never smoked a cigarette in their life.
Alcohol also has many damaging side affects, liver failure being the most worrying.
My point is, smoking and drinking are not a problem when used in moderation.
However, when a person overindulges on alcohol, their behaviour changes, and violence or fatal mistakes are made, smoking takes a lot longer to kill you.
To sum up, i do agree that yes smoking does have horrid side affects, but overall it is not nearly as dangerous, or expensive as an alcohol addiction. So lay off us smokers for a while!!
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But if you know smoking is addictive, why would you do it? Why start smoking? Being an alcoholic is not like being a smoker. It is pretty much inevitable that people will become addicted to cigarettes, but not everyone is an alcoholic. I can't seem to feel bad for people who use "smoking is addictive" for an excuse when they knew what they were getting into in the first place. You dont have to stop if you never start. Alcoholism is an entirely different situation in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteYeah i suppose thats true, but you should also be aware that alcohol can be addictive aswell. As i said, both are fine in moderation.
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