Smoking addiction
Dear friend, who are addicted to the candy of adults called cigarette. There might me different reasons why you once fell into the trap of smoking and got addicted to it.
Reasons to smoke cigarettes:
- Boastful vanity of social status and professional vainglory.
- Desire to become the center of attention from people.
- Desire of grandeur and power.
- Desire of impressing others and to appear cultured.
- Unawareness by breathing. If the dependence from air is forgotten, then the natural habit of inhale and exhale deeply with attention get substituted by smoking of cigarettes.
Nasty business
Since the first time you tried that psychological candy, it started to transform into your dangerous dependence of nicotine. Your dependence became an easy way for the manufacturers of cigarettes to fill their pockets, since the best for them is a trusty addicted customer who daily buy their nasty stuff, which is only useful to pollute your lungs, blood, health, home and even your heart.
Side effects – Character contradictions
My friend, to smoke is a big trap and you have become a victim of it, and you will need lots of endeavor to get rid of if. Perhaps you tried already several times and even promised, nevertheless you feel dejected, weak and ashamed; and at the same time you play as if you would be the strong one, the brave one, the rebellious one, the American cowboy that finally shows the boast braveness of killing himself with that stupid bad habit.
Awareness
Wake up! Your body does not belong to you really, it is the property of God and Mother Nature. It is very useful and you can do many things to help others, so don’t be discouraged. You have a mission in this very life. We want you to be healthy with nice character. We don’t want you to be ashamed, hidden in the smoker’s corner, afflicted with own miseries.
Be aware that gentle people says: If you want to smoke, then kill yourself alone, but don’t kill others”; even in several public places the nonsense of smoking is prohibited.
We see contradictory examples of the father, prohibiting his child to smoke whilst he himself keep holding a cigarette in his mouth. Or in hospital the wall’s sentence alert “smoking is injurious to health”, but the doctor welcomes patients with a burning cigarette in the hand!
What a shame! No ethics! No moral! No principles! No manners!
My friend you have to overcome yourself. Lift up your head! You will win like many others who already overcame their weakness. Be patient in these moments when addiction presses you, and remember the important thing to instead helping others with the money that otherwise would be wasted in cigarettes. Remember your desire to support a good activity, to give charity, to donate in a temple or just to do something wonderful.
Scientific information
“The smoker acts according his addictions and against his health interest, as stated by doctors worldwide”
“Depression, insecurity, nervousness are the poisonous effects of nicotine”
“Did you know that cigarettes kill more people in the world than the terrorist attacks?”
Smoking is an epidemic of public health, which daily puts in danger the life of many people.
The slow poison of nicotine produces a traumatic effect in the mind of an addict, and at the same time it creates dependence of false concepts like: “without smoking I have no energy and much anxiety”, and also: “by smoking I get nice opportunities to meet interesting people.”
Out of addiction the victim loses will power and passionate nasty behavior is acquired due to impoverishment of heart, polluted blood and respiratory system, which finally develops in cancer. Children and young people try cigarettes out of curiosity or fashion, smoking as hobby, without knowing the danger of addiction or ignoring that by addiction they became just victims, emotionally bounded among their “smoking friends”.
Therapy
One soft and slow way to give up smoking is as follows:
Your relationship towards the cigarette shall be faced with truth and mindfulness. Treat the cigarette as a naughty child who comes frequently to disturb you, just to take away your time and attention. A naughty child shall also be treated accordingly to avoid disgusting moods.
Every time you start to burn a cigarette, make sure you repeat the following words: “I bless you with divine love and I let you free”.
When desire to smoke arise then you practice with full attention the contemplation of a burning cigarette, only observe ashes and smoke going up. Hold it in your hands only, not in your mouth and conscious of your dependence of air; inhale deeply the gift of fresh air. Take out the rest of cigarettes of your pocket and throw them away; such a gift can’t be given to somebody, without remaining guilty.
To speak with ones heart is always the best, safe and fast way. “O Lord of my heart, allow me to be an instrument of your love. I accept any suffering I need to give up smoking. If I need to have any other addiction, allow it to be the addiction to your love, which will satisfy my heart and give me the capacity to do good to others. O my Lord! You are my only hope. Give me strength to overcome this dependence of nicotine and permit me to do some thing nice with this money I’m wasting in this vice. I need you so much, O Lord! And knowingly I did so many errors by lack of sense in my life, but now I have a reason to exist in your shelter and grace”
If you offer yourself to God sincerely, you will get help in many ways; like nice friends, to grow in their company and see light in your own existence. Dear friend of my soul, is time to wake up – better late then never, but take your decision today. I appreciate you so much since you’re my eternal brother/sister. I want you to be a winner over illusion, one of the souls who already learned that life is about giving, instead of taking, instead of smoking.
Addiction
As everyone depends necessarily of air, water and pure food to keep himself healthy and alive, so lots of people create unnecessary dependence of tea, coffee, smoking, tobacco, alcohol, tablets and the famous cold drinks, which are all products based in chemical or natural substances that creates addiction in the customers and keep them interested in consuming more and more.
The word drugs make reference to any stimulant like an herbal, chemical substance or staled liquid, which by intake, injection or inhalation produce a change in the mind of the person. This is an artificial and temporal state of mind, which manifests many symptoms of dependence in the individual behavior. The general symptom of drugs is that the person lose the main capacity of a human, which is discrimination of right and wrong. Even in the case of cigarette addiction, we see that the smoker act according to his consume habit, ignoring those who surround him or her. The person, who consumes drugs, day-by-day lose his responsible behavior, and due to addiction he takes everything for granted, losing the sense of care towards others.
“When we cannot control someone, we forget to treat that person with affection”. (Srila Paramadvaiti Swami)
Srila Guru Maharaj
Translation and interpretation by Gopini Dasi
Editing Manah Siksa d Dasi
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