The Reality A reward of slow suffocation, is it perhaps that we do not like ourselves enough to want to damage very thing that carries us through life. In some cases it is like experiment that was carried out in 1960's. It was called Great Marshmallow experiment. It involved 100 4-6 year olds, they were individually placed in a room with 2 way mirrors. The tester would then place a single marshmallow in front on child and tell them that he had to leave room for a few minutes, if they did not eat sweet, on his return they would receive 3 marshmallows as reward. 75 of children ate marshmallow almost as soon as tester left room. This experiment proved a human craving for instant reward. The same applies to smoking, It is instant and anything that happens after you smoke a cigarette seems to have no bearing on last one but creates a need for next one.

The first cigarette of day is linked closely to amount of anxiety you feel. The morning is time when you are thinking about what is going to take place that day. The journey to work, will I be late, will I survive busy roads. What will happen when I arrive at work, will my boss be in a good mood. Will there be work that is too difficult for me or will there be too much to do and not enough time. Most people will have run through their whole day before they even leave house. This instils anxiety and because of misunderstanding that exists in your mind about real and artificial anxiety created by last cigarette you feel destined to smoke.

The last one at night is another myth. I used to think that I could not go to sleep without my cigarette but what was I thinking. Nicotine which is primarily a stimulant, was never going to be a calming agent, all it did was increase my breathing to cope with lack of oxygen that in turn released endorphins that in turn made me tense. Not only that but all carbon monoxide in my blood was slowly poisoning me. No wonder I woke up every morning with a headache and no wonder I thought I felt so bad because I needed another cigarette. Once you quit you will sleep soundly, you will wake refreshed. As life intended it to be.

The issue of mealtimes is a strange one for me, I too would have agreed with statement above regarding a cigarette being like another course however I now know differently. What could be nicer than eating your favourite food and then being able to savour and taste it for a long time after eating it. When you smoke all you are doing is replacing that lovely experience with rancid taste of cigarettes. It seems to me that for any smoker having a meal is an inconvenience and food is somehow just in way. All you want to do is get food out of way to get to cigarette. It does not enhance a meal it destroys it. Then there is matter of waiting for everyone to finish before lighting up and even then you may have to leave table and your company and have a cigarette, missing conversation and enjoyment all for a selfish act like smoking.

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