][/COLOR]Starting smoking in the first place makes it harder to deal with stress, why do you think smokers find it hard to quit? The receptors in the brain which create natural calmness, and also, proteins in the brain which control the sleep clock (in newer research), are damaged.
Disagree with this..........harder to quit because nicotine is addictive. Nothing to do with dealing with stress.
When someone started smoking in the beginning it was to 'cope with something'. Whether that was a dysfunctional family, childhood abuse or other trauma, lack of friends
This may be true for some, but many began because of peers smoking and such.
Did any non-smoker who became a smoker, see people smoking, think I know it's bad, I know it's unhealthy, but I'll do it anyway because my life is great and God is on my side in doing so?
This is just silly.....one can insert most anydarnthing in the place of "smoking" there and get the same result.....like breathing the air these days
But while some people may not have listened to the devil who says, you know you want one, you know you want to feel worthy, you know you want to forget about the past, you know you want to rebel, there are others who were fortunate to choose a different path. And smokers will not accept that, accept that they tend to be more weak-minded than those who never took up smoking.
Self righteous a wee bit are we? And the weak minded part is without any evidence whatsoever. Some of the greatest minds in the world were smokers. Do a bit of research before making such a comment.
This makes them more likely to be deceptive to themselves, and to others. And in answer to what StunnedByGrace said in a couple of responses, smokers will rarely speak positively of smoking in public. It's mainly if you want to try and help them quit, or you see it damaging their health, or you see them coughing all the time and try to advise.
Heard someone at Wal-Mart telling a guy this out by the front door one day......pretty close to the same words......the same general condemnation though......I had to laugh, and as I walked away, I remarked to both of them... "Said the alcoholic fat man to the smoker."
I'm not here to make smokers feel bad, I'm here to speak the truth.
Some truth, some conjecture, some personal bias is more correct methinks
I've helped people quit drugs, I have never had any success helping anyone quit smoking.
Nicotine is a drug
And StunnedByGrace, not sure why you want to trample on my own observations of smokers and how they behave. Are you a smoker?
