Posted by Randall on October 19, 2009, 18:36:20, in reply to "smoking"
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Hi Jenny. It sounds like you have made your decision, but let me offer some thoughts you might consider.
Don't focus on the people who get hysterical about it and say, "It's going to kill you!". It may, in fact, contribute to an earlier death than you would otherwise have, but oddly enough, that probably won't have much effect on your thinking today, because unless you HATE the feeling of smoking, it sure won't FEEL like it's killing you. And it won't, not for many, many years.
What you SHOULD think about is that if you become a regular smoker, at some point in your late twenties to early forties, you will start cataloging all of the things in your life that cause you to be healthy and unhealthy, and smoking will be at or near the top of things you do that may very well be the biggest unhealthy thing in your life. But you will probably be enjoying it, and you will be addicted, so it will be something you either struggle very hard to change, or else you will live with the fact that no matter how much you exercise, no matter how well you eat, YOU SMOKE, and that will probably outweigh everything else. You may ... I say MAY ... look back and think, "Geez ... for a few weeks of feeling cool in my teens, I now have this big unhealthy thing in my life that I can't stop doing, and can't counteract."
Don't smoke to be cool. Don't NOT smoke to be cool, either. Don't smoke because your best friend does. Don't NOT smoke because your parents or your paster or whatever says it means you are of poor character. Whatever you do, try your best to think ahead to where you want to be and what you want to be worrying about when you are middle aged. Then make your decision without regard to what anyone else things either way.
--Previous Message--
: Well i desided that im
: going to keep smoking
: for now.After i inhaled
: thats when i desided
: that i really liked
: it(still not real good
: at it)but it is getting
: better .After pratice
: tonight on our way home
: we had 2 each so now for
: the questions
:
: 1 what is a good brand
: to start with.
:
: 2 what is the best way
: to hide the smell
:
: 3 and is the an easy way
: to come out to parents
:
: ... Jenny...
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