Weekly Blog Post #1

Today's Topic: Smoking

  A lot less people smoke than before. Especially in younger people, only 1 in 5 highschoolers smoke apparently. But those who do usually started early. I started later than most, I was 15 and just about to get my license. My job sucked and I wanted something to deal with the stress. I started smoking very little at first, for a long time I'd maybe have two cigarettes a day and sometimes take weeks or months off from them. I never really saw what was so addicting about them. When I was 16 I was at 5 or 6 a day, I could stop for weeks at a time and have no discomfort or craving. Then when I was 17 I could buy a pack in the morning and have it gone by bedtime.

  After I graduated I spent this summer and early fall working and going to college, smoking has been a small relief and a big burden on my wallet. I soon realized that I spent far too much money, smoking over a pack every day was expensive as well as unhealthy. Before, I could stop smoking for any period of tiem whenever I chosed, this year has been more difficult. I tried to save some money and bought a carton for 50 dollars. I bought that three wednessdays ago, and It just ran out this sunday. Surprisingly despite having more cigarettes it caused me to smoke less, I've decided to switch a somewhat nastier brand of cigarettes that I won't want to smoke as often.

 My goal is to permanently quit smoking soon, I want to do it "Cold-turkey" but I am considering other methods, its been too much of a burden on my finances and I would prefer to have better health.