This is a extract from Alan Carr's book
"Allen Carr's Easy Way to Give Up Smoking":
"...smoking is not enjoyable."
*throws book in bin*
This is a good book with excellent insights but I did find this contention - that basically smoking is not enjoyable - to be utterly ludicrous.
Why do people smoke then?
To be fair, he did qualify it in some way but I wasn't entirely convinced.
I think it was something along the lines of "smoking is not enjoyable, but nicotine addiction is...."
I speak as an ex-smoker.
Among other things, I had to accept that smoking was in some way enjoyable before I gave up.
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"Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it." GBS.
Once I realised that yes, smoking is enjoyable but that it is not worth it because it is extremely bad for you and the environment in so many ways and not just in the future but right now, I no longer wanted to smoke. So I made the decision not to.
I also had to accept that having an occasional cigarette was impossible because smoking's essence is addictiveness - physical and psychological - and one cigarette demands another.
I don't really believe in addiction so I would maybe say habit-forming then.
I also saw it as one less thing to worry about, once the decision had been made.
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