Do you continue to try and rationalize smoking in a logical way?

The character of a person can have a big impact on the likelihood of them quitting smoking. Individuals who are able to face facts and be honest with themselves about the damage that smoking does will obviously be able to quit smoking more easily.

Other people who enjoy life and are surrounded by a loving and caring family will find it easier to quit smoking because of the support around them. If you look around at your friends and family you will probably find that the happier individuals are less likely to be smokers and that the more depressed ones who are not really fulfilled in what they have achieved are likely to smoke.

In some respects continuing to smoke and refusing to face the facts about the damage that you are doing is a form of mental denial and even illness. Take somebody like the Two And A Half Men star Charlie Sheen who continues to light up like there is no tomorrow. If you were to suggest to Charlie that he should quit smoking he would probably shout you down with a whole lot of weird and wacky reasons why he should continue to smoke.

He would probably tell you he was invincible, that life was for living anyway or that nobody should tell him what to do. All of these arguments are pretty stupid and would of course look even more stupid when he becomes chronically ill as a result of his smoking.

Have you got a mental blockage when it comes to smoking? Have you spent your life trying to justify this stupid habit? Do you continue to try and rationalize smoking in a logical way? If you are doing any of these the liklihood is that you will end up in a hospital bed with a smoking related illness like heart disease, emphysema or lung cancer.

Face the facts, get some help and quit smoking!