How Addiction Creeps In
How Addiction Creeps In
You first light up a cigarette when you are in your teens. You would think that you were invincible and knew you could quit the habit any time. Any way, the very first puff tasted awful but there was a certain kick to it; your pulse raced and it took you into that elite group at college that appeared to others as one consisting of people who live on the edge. Very soon, the act of smoking began to feel as natural as breathing in and breathing out.
Now, to the present; decades later you have grown much older and wiser, and you are desperate to quit. Also, you tend to worry more about your own children. Now, look back; what happened during those first thrilling rendezvous with tobacco cigarettes?
Simply put a dangerous and unhealthy combination of peer pressure and seductive advertisements lured you into taking your first puff. Then, nicotine