I feel that instead of giving any advice or lecture for quitting smoking, we should go to the root causes of smoking. Why, When, Where, Whom of the causes.
When we give our thoughts to smoking, it is very popular in two classes, either very lower class or upper class and both classes don’t care.The middle or lower middle classes has lots of boundations, can;t smoke in family in the presence of seniors, ladies. But many wives prefer the smell of cigarette and appreciate their husband smoking.
In my childhood when I started to understand about myself, seen many handsome people smoking in style.Later in Indian and Hollywood movies, Actors were performing smoking scenes and were attracting audiences too well.Many a times, I found the fragrance of tobacco smoke, much intoxicating. In school days too, senior boys were smoking in toilets or behind trees or bush.Some of the teachers were also smoking freely and they were our Heros.
Obviously when I first time took sutta, oh what the hell it was, coughing high and tearing from eyes, red face but the time passed on and I could not understand how it turned as best intoxicater. The demand of necotine was going on high side with coffee or tea. Those were the days when it was a fashion and in offices too, smoking was not banned.Specially people from Marketing or Account side were often seen smoking as both the people were living in tension.
I was surprised to see that many people were chain smokers and up to my utter surprise they were not having any problem.I dont know about their stamina but I am rest assured that they lacked it than the people who were non smokers.
*So what I was talking about the root causes which attracts towards smoking.I dont know what happened in so long 20 years of smoking but one day I realised that when I start smoking, it raised my BP and headache and it was so accute that next time I thought again and again and my cigarette size first came to half and then only two or three times. Now I am totally smoking free person and for the last 10 years I did not smoke.
So I think we can only advice our children not to smoke but if we are smoking and advising them not to smoke will not work.First we have to stop smoking then we have right to advice them for their acceptance.
*Thousand of years had passed away and people used to smoke either cigar, pipe, cigarette or Hukka and it still continues, but now as people and government machinery is on alert, people around are quitting smoking.
Atleast we loose our temper or criticise Farrokh Khan where smoke in DON and in our novels and movies, smoking is being banned in phased manner.*
Ravi Sharma*