Quit smoking 21st century girl

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Personally, I myself quit smoking at the age of 19, when I first saw myself on TV, you know - just a screensaver, views of Moscow in the evening, my husband and I were sitting on a bench near the monument to Gogol, smoking and kissing desperately at the same time. We didn't even notice that we were being filmed. And they showed these shots for a reason, but in some report on"

The sight was, to put it mildly, sad and made such an impression on me that I wanted to quit not only smoking, but also kissing … Imagine: two loving little engines, whose smoke is not coming from their ears!

My friend and namesake - Zhenya - smokes "more than half of her life", she picked up her first cigarette at the age of 12, since then she has quit smoking three times, one of them lasted for half a year, then lit up with everyone at the New Year's party and … in general, as you celebrate the New Year, you will spend it.

On March 8, all young people to their wife, in addition to flowers and sweets, were sure to give a brochure about the dangers of smoking, where it was written that girls start smoking because they are attracted by the aesthetic side of the process: a beautiful lighter, a manicured nail, with which you gracefully tap on a cigarette, dumping ash. Again - exquisite ashtrays, as part of household utensils … Zhenya assured that she just did not care about all this aesthetics, nevertheless, she could not refuse a zipp lighter and all sorts of attributes to it (leather case, etc.). And from exotic cigarillos, and from a small original shape of a cherry tree pipe with all the bells and whistles - brushes, cases again, and boxes of fragrant tobacco.

Also in these books it was written that girls start smoking in order to stand out from the crowd of their peers, to assert themselves, to impress an adult lady, etc. But, in my opinion, this is not only true about girls, a 15-year-old boy will begin to smoke precisely in order to earn a certain authority among his peers, and in our youth, Zhenya and I, on the contrary, carefully concealed this pernicious passion, did not brag to anyone, smoked only in private and in very secluded places.

Of all the literature on the topic of female smoking, we were impressed only by the book by David Barry, which was actually a funny parody of all kinds of manuals and guides on sex life. The author wrote that earlier it was very easy for a girl to meet in bars, as soon as she got a cigarette out of her purse, gallant men with lighters and a willingness to serve her and use an unlit cigarette as an excuse to meet her immediately rushed to her, but now, when the smoking girl is not considered modern, you have to go to bars not with a cigarette, but … for example, with a jar of mayonnaise, and ask gallant men to help you open it … The fundamental difference between this tirade and everything else about smoking is the statement of the fact that a smoking girl is NOT modern …

Whether this is really so - I do not know. But recently at one party I had to face a dispute on the topic of "sexual division of tobacco smokers." I will not cite here the kondy attempts to wit like: "Kissing a woman who smokes is the same as licking an ashtray" … I have already expressed my attitude to smoking and kissing, but I was very interested in the fact that men quit smoking, and in recent years this trend took on the character of an "epidemic".

When I entered the institute, there were 4 girls and 8 guys, 1 of the guys did not smoke, only I smoked of the girls. By the time I graduated from the institute, the situation turned exactly the opposite: I quit smoking, the other 3 girls started, and there were only 2 boys who smoke for the diploma.

This is statistics within the framework of one course, but it finds confirmation in many other sectors of society. And the point is not even (as the representatives of the stronger sex tried to convince me) that a man always goes one step ahead of a woman, in my opinion, two factors are to blame for the widespread female smoking.

For a long time, smoking was considered a purely male prerogative (well, indeed, Belomorkanal cigarettes were not made for women), but recently the tobacco industry, including the domestic one, has turned its face to the fair sex. Thin cigarettes with and without menthol, long graceful things of different colors. Sweet light cigars. Wonderfully feminine in shape, lighters made of precious metals, inlaid with beautiful stones. And a lot of the rest. But light - "ladies'" - cigarettes, this is our biggest problem. A seriously smoker will not smoke them, so the number of "tobacco sticks" consumed by him will simply increase, but you may still have the feeling that you take care of your body and smoke only harmless cigarettes. Although it has already been proven that there is no harmless poison.

The second reason is the indisputable fact that women are more inherent in psychological attachment and even dependence. It's easier and easier for us to get addicted to chocolate, alcohol, a loved (or unloved) man, a luxurious lifestyle … and, of course, cigarettes. The very fact that he is addicted is unpleasant for a man - it doesn't matter what exactly. So he begins to fight, and we begin to lull our passion and quench it.

Although, in fairness, I must say that not all and not always. You rarely meet a pregnant woman who smokes. Having become pregnant, even happily avoiding toxicosis, a woman refuses cigarettes, realizing how dangerous it is for the health of her unborn baby. But a smoking husband of a pregnant wife is unlikely to quit smoking, or at least will stop smoking in their common room, if the wife herself does not instruct him to move the "smoking room" to the staircase. This means that in some ways we are stronger and "if necessary - so it is necessary!" And if we are already aware of all the harm they play, then maybe it is worth adopting this quality from men - aversion to any addiction - to gather our will into an iron lady's fist and quit smoking once and for all?!..