Want to Play a Game?

If smoking cigarettes was a game, the rules would go like this:

If you smoke one, you will have to smoke another.

You can quit at any time.

Now wait just a minute, if I smoke one doesn't that mean I have to smoke another? Yes, it does. That's fine providing that you want to continue smoking. I have no idea why anyone would want to continue but to each their own. For people who want to stop smoking this game is unfair. It's unfair until you realize that you can quit at any time. You don't have to play this game and you shouldn't because this game is a trap. You don't win. You lose money and impair your health.

I now view cigarettes like an annoying pop up ad. If you smoke it, it's like clicking the ad. You generate revenue for some company that hopes you buy that product. It also the kind of pop up ad that installs malware on your computer. Now you have this annoying pop up in your mind that keeps say you have to smoke and to get rid of those withdrawal feelings. It' mimics those anti-virus ads that install a virus on your computer so you have to buy their software to get rid of it. That problem is when you buy cigarettes and smoke them, you don't get rid of your nicotine addiction.

When you realize that you don't have to play you won't.