Life Post-Cigarettes – The Social Impacts Of Quitting

Anyone who’s been a smoker in the last few years knows how places where you can acceptably smoke have been dwindling.  Depending on where you live in the world (well in western countries anyway), first it was the airlines that went ‘smoke free,’ then pubs and bars, the malls, the workplaces, now we are getting to the point that you either smoke at home, or very few areas set aside for your less and less acceptable dependency.  The world is starting to take second hand and third hand smoke dangers seriously, and it really crimps the smoker’s lifestyle.
These days it is fairly obvious that smoking is the habit that is trendy to hate. 

Any smoker who has been sitting outside their workplace/favourite bar/home having a quiet smoke, and some self-righteous type wanders up and tells you how bad smoking is for you, would know what this is like.  Smokers already know what their habit is doing to them, and most either choose to quit (and keep trying to quit if they don’t plan well for it) or spend a lot of time trying to ignore the whole unpleasant situation.  Thing is, food addicts are in a very similar situation to smokers, but giving a person a hard time for being addicted to food is considered discrimination, but smokers are a valid target.

Simple fact is you can’t really escape the truth: smoking is bad for you, and those around you.  Smoking is no longer acceptable in most public places (in the west), and all those trendy places where you smoked are gone.  So what do you do, you change with the times, and quit smoking cigarettes.

This will be a big change; you’ll have to deal with not only the psychological and chemical dependency withdrawal, but at some point you’ll also have to change the way you do some of your regular activities.  It can be tough, but with the right advice and preparation, it can not only be managed, but new and interesting possibilities can open up to you.