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Late Bloomer Smokers
Posted by Lauren on 6/5/2009, 11:05:12, in reply to "Re: addicted, I'm a smoker"
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Welcome to the club I started at 28 and Iam 32 now I will never quit
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:
: Hi, I find your post
: fascinating and the
: change in your attitude
: quite natural as i will
: try and explain my
: perspective.
: On starting smoking you
: force your body to
: accept the taste and
: cocktail of drugs that
: it does not like
: (usually) and only by
: persisting do you aquire
: a liking for the taste
: and the sensation of the
: smoke burning the lungs
: and throat. however the
: desire to continue to
: keep on doing this
: incredibly quickly
: develops past the point
: of experimentation
: usually within a week or
: so of daily smoking in
: most people to then
: alter the chemical make
: up of the brain. this
: change is what we know
: as addiction, the brain
: needs nicotine and on a
: medium strength
: cigarette the level of
: nicotine in an average
: person is 24 in a day
: hence the pack size of
: 20 is so carefully
: thought out to ensure
: that you always have a
: nearly full pack to
: continue on with, clever
: huh?
:
: OK so after a couple of
: weeks the taste and
: sensation are much more
: pleasant the taste of
: food and alcohl will
: also have altered
: imperceptibly as well as
: you taste buds become
: immune to the acrid
: smoke that is now so
: pleasant. you will still
: be in the honeymoon
: phase of being
: encouraged by peer's to
: continue and almost
: un-noticed, you will
: transition from feeling
: that you want to have a
: cigarette, toi needing a
: cigarette, at this point
: any choice you have in
: the matter is finished,
: for as long as it takes,
: your body is that of a
: smoker the chemical
: changes are complete and
: during waking hours it
: is dependant upon having
: a level of nicotine in
: the system. that is the
: chemical addiction.
: Physical addiction is
: more subtle, you become
: comfortalbe with saying
: "Jeez I need a
: smoke" friends who
: smoke unconciously
: persuade you to become
: one of them friendships
: are re-inforced
: persualssion to
: "have another"
: grows as they see a new
: recruit who is one less
: "against the wind
: of quitting" it is
: your private escape, an
: unconditional friend
: albeit an anti-social
: one.
: During the inital months
: further changes develop
: in the brain and body,
: mainly however it is in
: the lung's and studies
: have revealed that
: approximately ater six
: months the lungs have
: enough deposited
: material that they
: accept no more and then
: you notice breathing
: becoming a little more
: laboured, exhales
: contain a far greater
: quantity of residual
: smoke inhales are longer
: and deeper and held
: internally for longer,
: by this time you have
: all the attributes of a
: smoker and indeed are
: playing catch up.
: You have a choice, to
: continue and to accept
: it enjoy and embrace it,
: many friends and family
: will be horrified others
: won't ewver bat an
: eyelid, but it is a
: choice you make.
: How? well you are
: currently in the final
: phase of becoming a life
: smoker, that is the
: realisation that your
: dabbling was unwise the
: habit unhealthy but
: still the pleasure you
: get outweighs the
: negatives and you enjoy
: the habit more and more.
: this period will pass
: and it will become a
: routine, if you let it,
: it can be a time to
: transition in other
: areas as well, why not
: get a more glamerous
: look alter your dress
: style, hair, hobbies, to
: reflect this new you.
: Stop beating yourself up
: once you accept that you
: are a smoker it was
: after all your decision
: to accept the very first
: cigarette, you knew the
: risks, you still took
: it, so the next time you
: get the urge, just smoke
: just experiment with the
: habit and adapt to it.
:
: As long as we accept the
: actions we undertake and
: choose to enjoy them or
: derive pleasure from
: them why worry as much
: as you have done. There
: is far worse things that
: you could have developed
: a taste for.
:
: I hope this helps.
:
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