Why This Blog?

I am a doctor from India. I started smoking from very young age and smoked for long 30 years! Knowing every ill effects of smoking I was unable to quit. Then one day while checking my BP. I found it abnormally high! I initially didn't trust the instrument and checked with 3 or 4 instruments repeatedly and the results were same. Next day I did my blood tests for lipid profile and they all were deranged. Now , that was the time, I was bound to quit but how???? The blog will tell my story. Hoping this blog will help many smokers to understand their smoking habit and will help them to quit or, shift for the better.

Monday, April 28, 2014

Why you smoke?


I will not write here the harmful effects of smoking . You all know those things and still you smoke. What I have learned from my research  that the smoking has two distinct parts.
1. Habit: You smoke by habit. It is a reflex kind of thing it has no relation whatsoever with nicotine dependence. The proof for that is, if you are a smoker you might have faced a situation when one cigarette is lighting on your lips and you pulled out another from the packet! This usually happens when you are engrossed in any job with lots of concentration. Why this happen? It is you habit. Even when you are having good concentration of nicotine in your blood, still you are searching for another cigarette!
2. Nicotine dependence: Yes, Nicotine dependence is the toughest dependence to quit. believe it or not, tougher than cocaine dependence. 

Taking into consideration of the above facts, if you want to quit you have to do it scientifically. 

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