"Contest Alert!!!! || "Say no to smoking " - "Very bad habit"

This is a topic I would like to share from my own experience as an ex-smoker. Thanks to the invitation of @wakeupkitty I will be able to tell you based on the questions the author of the contest asked.

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Do you smoke or know someone close to you who is addicted to smoking? Tell us about it.

I was a smoker, I'm not proud of it but I don't hide it either. When I write about it I do it so that those who read me can reflect on my act of stupidity as a life experience. I started smoking when I was about 16 years old, I was studying in a semi-boarding school. I would spend from 7 am to 6 pm in that place.

Many of my classmates smoked, they were older than me, and there were even several of them who were already married and had a lot of life experience, which caught my attention. I was educated in a very disciplined and strict environment, where I didn't have room for much information because my parents didn't allow me to have it.

Do you know why and how people become addicted to cigarette smoking?

I don't know how other people get into this bad habit of smoking, but I started it with my classmates. It started in me the curiosity to know more about the smoking habit that many of my classmates had. First, they would ask me to pass the cigarette to another friend and then another time, to light it for them. I went ahead and then I started smoking, I felt in the same environment as them.

Years had passed, I had graduated, and my smoking habit was still with me. What I never liked was the bad smell that remained on my clothes and my breath.

I spent many years smoking until the inevitable happened and I quit.

Tell us about the negative impacts of smoking on physical and mental health.

The smoking habit continued with me and my tendency to have respiratory problems also started. I went to continue studying in a city far away from my hometown, where the weather was very cold. It was constantly raining and that allowed that due to the cold my nasal secretions were always coming out. Then came the flu, and tonsillitis, and my smoking habit continued despite that.

I was almost halfway through my career when I decided it was time to quit smoking because of all the consequences that this bad habit had triggered. So one day I said to myself "I'm not smoking anymore" and I did. It was not that it was easy but I am a strong character and if I decide something I try by all means to fulfill myself.

A year went by, and two years later, people instead of encouraging me and encouraging me to stay without smoking for so long, told me that I didn't smoke much because I was about to relapse. I didn't understand why they said that and I never found out. I never went back to smoking.

Only the respiratory problems had already nested in my lungs and I continued with my nasal secretions and continuous flu-like processes repeatedly. But since everything has an end, I dedicated myself to taking vitamin C in citric drinks and consuming a lot of magnesium with green vegetables. Today I am more resistant to repeated respiratory problems.

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Addictions are not good at all. There is no spiritual or mental peace with the bad habit learned. Only when we are in control of our desires can we be at peace with ourselves and live peacefully.

How can you guide someone to stop smoking and return to their normal life?

People who smoke and I ask them to quit from my own experience do not like me to tell them. Many of them told me that they would quit when they decided to, but years went by and I never saw them quit. Many complained to me that I bothered them when I asked them not to smoke and they reproached me that I did it and for that reason, they considered that I should not ask them not to do it anymore.

I must say that I was never able to influence any of my friends to quit that bad habit. They congratulated me because I gave it up but they asked me to leave them alone. That's what I did, I never asked anyone else to quit. I just told the meetings about my own experience and that was it. I was able to be free again without vicious ties and with fewer respiratory repercussions.

Last year I only went through a single flu process without any major problems. I hope to continue to maintain my magnesium and vitamin C intake. And I am staying healthy.

This is my participation in the @abdullahw2 contest in the Say No To Smoking theme.

I invite @zoyabhatti06, @jollymonoara and @zisha-hafiz to participate, follow this link

25% of my participation will go to @null