If You Want to Stop Smoking - You Can

If you want to stop smoking you can, because there is only one person preventing you from doing so, and that is yourself.

So, you must really, really, want to stop smoking, because if you don't you will make excuses for not doing so. You will say, I can't, or why should I, or I enjoy smoking, or whatever.

If you need reminding that smoking kills, just remember the Grim Reaper's Smoking Poem, which is reproduced below:

Just Remember

The Grim Reaper Loves Smokers

Stop smoking NOW - You may have read
'Cos if you don't - You'll soon be dead

That smoking kills - You can be sure
From this and that - There is no cure

You stumble on - With cough and wheeze
'Tis smoking - Caused your lung disease

Not me you say - My breathings good
Was that my heart - I heard a thud

Can't stop now - It is too late
There is no point - I know my fate

But just a mo' - 'Cause you know what
It's not too late - To stop the rot

There's patches, pills - Advice to take
The effort is - Just yours to make

It seemed quite hard - But your success
Improved your health - And nothing less

That smoking kills - You now agree
But say "I've stopped" - It won't get me

After you have read it, print it, and then cut it out, and carry it with you in your handbag or wallet. Then refer to it whenever the need arises. The first four lines should be enough to make you want to stop smoking without any excuses. The last four lines show that it is hardly ever too late to stop smoking, and derive considerable benefit.

In many cases stopping smoking will save peoples lives, because in the USA alone around 440,000 people die every year from smoking related diseases. It's just about the biggest cause of avoidable death there is. So, never pretend you don't want to stop smoking. Because it's almost like saying you want to die, which fortunately is not true for most people.

Luckily we have reached the stage when a great deal of informed opinion is being focused on stopping smoking. Some health authorities and government departments are doing whatever they can to assist people who want to stop smoking. Such assistance even extends, in some instances, to providing commercial non-smoking aids free. It seems obvious they care about the state of the nations health. They have also recognized the cost of treating people with smoking related diseases, against the cost of assisting them to stop.

There are all sorts of ways that can be of assistance in your quest to stop smoking. You are not on your own, and although stopping is seldom easy, it may not be as difficult as it once was. This is particularly the case in those countries providing state aid through health services etc.

Richard Wise writes articles about natural health, including stopping smoking, aromatherapy, herbal remedies, antioxidants, allergies and vegetarianism. If you are interested in stopping smoking please visit his web site which is at http://www.wanttostopsmoking.com/

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