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Because of the smoking decline in the West, big tobacco has taken the same lies and advertising

JonesCarpeDiem
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that they used to suck us into smoking worldwide, yes, even to the youngest of children to addict them

The promises?

1. Smoking is cool

and

2 Smoking is not harmful

Now, I'm not much for the blame game.

Many smokers will say, "It was my choice" but, if you look back at the old commercials and realize what an influence they had on our parents born in the nineteen thirties, and after, and then look at the influence smoking parents have on their children, I think it's safe to say that big tobacco was very intentional in its motives. They even had doctors doing cigarette commercials saying how safe smoking was.

Once again they are spreading the same crap around the world to generate new customers. they have cigarette stands at the entrances to gradeschools in Indonesia and they have no shame getting children addicted to smoking.

WARNING: don't watch the following if seeing children smoke will make you want to smoke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D8uSVeChGs

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.