apc non-smoking campaign

APC  NON-SMOKING CAMPAIGN

Smoking, what good does it do to you? How does it improve your life? Does it help you? Does it gives you what you need?

Some research shows that a percent of smokers smoke for relaxation. Another percent smokes because of peer pressure and some says they just smoke for fun. But what does smoking do to you? Is the nicotine high worth paying for? Ill answer that question right away. No its not, cigarettes contain thousands of bacterias that are very harmful for our bodies. Bacteria that not can only make you sick but can even make you face death itself. A cigarette takes away 10 minutes of your life. And an average smoker smokes about 20 sticks a day. In a day he takes away 200 minutes of his life, imagine how that 200 mins can affect you in the long run. Another is that it causes lung cancer, emphysema, throat cancer and a lot more sicknesses. Some people make the addiction an excuse for them not to stop. Some even say it is impossible to. Well, it is not. Bo sanchez is one of his books made cigarette smoking an example. And he shows how to stop it. And I quote ‘ make your Y bigger than your X’ meaning make your reason to stop (Y) bigger than smoking (X). for example, a dad who has been smoking for over 10 years. We all know that even If we tell him to stop nothing will happen. But what if I point a gun at his daughter and tell him, stop smoking and never smoke again or Ill kill your daughter. Surely he would stop for he values his daughter more. In the same way he values the Y more than the X, therefore making him stop.

Smoking is something very widespread here in the Philippines and here in our beloved college. But never make addiction an excuse to remain smoking. Always remember each stick counts. The more you do the earlier you die. Don’t exchange whats temporal for what good that there is instore for you