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Stop Smoking : Smoking Cessation
Cessation is the act of completing or ending and is the perfect term to describe what quitting smoking is all about. On the one hand, cessation indicates completion. When you decide to begin a program of smoking cessation, you have completed the bad, unhealthful attitudes and addictions which have driven your life so far. That part of your life is complete; it cannot be added to or removed from. Your total experience to date has been completed as a smoker. Now you are ready to begin a new life; one in which cigarette smoking will play no part.
The definition of ending has a connotation of something which has been ongoing, and no longer will be repeated. This describes what happens when you do not pick up that next cigarette each time the craving comes. You have ceased allowing a habit and an addiction to rule your every waking moment.
Even those who have never been able to successfully proceed with a smoking cessation program will agree that smoking is bad for your health. It has been estimated that each cigarette smoked shortens your life span by approximately 7 minutes—a time that is almost equal to the time spent to smoke the cigarette. So you each time you pick up and smoke one cigarette, you've lost almost one quarter hour of your lifetime. It's wasted and can never be recovered. Would it not be better to use that 15 minutes doing something you enjoy, or something that would benefit someone near to you? Have you ever thought about what could be done with 15 minutes? You could read a story to a child; you could walk your dog around the block. You could weed a flower bed. You could practice that new piano solo you've wanted to learn
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Smoking cessation almost immediately helps your health. While you can never recover lost minutes of your life, you can make better use of the ones which remain. Within minutes of your last lungful of toxin-laden air from your cigarette, the particulates from the tobacco smoke begin to leave your lungs. Within hours, the bloodstream is in better condition as the liver cleanses impurities. Within days, the addiction to nicotine is lessened, although the habit of smoking may persist for weeks, even years.
Smoking cessation is a conscious choice for a happier, healthier lifestyle. Smoking cessation does not happen without some pain and discomfort, but long term effects are so beneficial in health, longevity and indeed relationships that you are encouraged to make the decision to stop smoking soon.
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