Quitting Smoking Can Be So Hard

Watching television last night I was reminded how difficult and daunting it can be to stop smoking even when faced with a life threatening situation. I was watching a reality show about Accident and Emergency departments in hospitals. A patient was admitted with severe chest pains and it was later confirmed he had suffered a heart attack, he was 42 years old......42!. He was overweight and he smoked. When he was inteviewed at home after making a recovery he explained that he had adopted a healthier lifestyle. He had changed his diet and ate much more healthily. He had not, however, stopped smoking.

It is to be applauded that this person made the choice to change his diet, accepting that one of the reasons for his heart attack was what and how much he ate. It amazed me though that he did not apply the same reasoning to his smoking. Smoking had made a hugely greater contribution to his situation than his diet, why couldn't he see this?

Then I remembered what it is like to be a smoker, the fear of being without, the terror of facing a life without cigarettes, terror all caused by the mental conditioning that comes with addiction to nicotine. Even when faced with death from heart disease at 42 this guy could not let go of his smoking. That is very powerful mental conditioning. This is the sort of person I wish I could communicate with directly, to show them there is a way out. All I can hope is that people read this blog and take some sort of inspiration to change their lives.

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