My Quest to Tobacco

For almost all of my adult life I’ve been a smoker. I do not remember exactly when I started to smoke. To me it is not exactly a red-letter day that I wish to enshrine in my personal memory space.

I suppose I must have been about eighteen. This is the age in most countries and cultures that a person becomes an adult; a responsible and mature individual who really should determine what is good and what is bad.

Well, I began to smoke. I fell madly in love with Lady Nicotine and succumbed to her nefarious charms. This affair has lasted for almost a lifetime.

However, I have recently realized that I want out of a relationship that is just not great for me. Metaphors aside, I am now determined to give up smoking. I will be making active efforts in that direction.

I have not been capable of quitting cold turkey. Giving up smoking is not as easy as it sounds. At the very least for me personally it hasn’t been a cakewalk, as for quite some time I was in a denial mode and I needed to have my cake and eat it too.

It all recently started after i decided to adopt a jogging regimen, as I desired to shed pounds. There is a small yet steep hill right in the middle of the jogging course which i frequent. I simply couldn’t quite negotiate the hill. I was huffing and puffing all over the place by the point I reached the top in most cases had to stop and gather my breath.

The irony of it struck me that I was going over the hill but was not able to make it over that hill. The jogging routine had shaken not just stagnant tissue and muscle but also my conscience. I was starting to make some progress, but that hill bothered me.

A little goes a long way was never as obvious to me as when i took up jogging in an attempt to break the addiction. I blundered on. I was determined to make a difference. It was a good three months before I could negotiate that hill without almost collapsing and heading down on my knees.

My efforts began to pay off! I started to feel better about my body and myself. I was breathing, sleeping and eating much better. I haven’t been capable of quitting smoking yet! But I am working at it! Everydaythere are a variety of battles I win once i refuse myself a smoke. There are battles that i lose as well. The war continues to be on. I know I will win. Someday I’ll give up smoking. I simply hope it’s not too late once i finally manage to quit!

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