Greetings community

I was lost last week because I was planning a course on Hive for new users in my country. I am back this week with a topic that for me is critical. It is about smoking. Please if you are a smoker or support smokers do not continue reading this post, as the content will not be to your liking and I will not contend with the words I will express in it.

I tell you a little bit about my childhood

I was born and raised in Old Havana, in the capital of Cuba. As you can imagine in all the capitals of the countries is where life is more hectic and agitated because generally where more money movement exists, either through personal or state business. This generates a degree of life a little more expensive and stressful so it is very normal to be seeing from 12-13 year old children with a cigarette in his mouth to look or become more macho or women than others, to older people hiding in this bad habit as an excuse for their problems.

My dad

I am the son of parents who smoke, and this story I will tell you is true. My father about 10 years ago almost suffocated because of the intoxication that had pulomones, having more than 40 years smoking the airways were very clogged and an allergy he got one day, we do not know what still almost died of asphyxiation. The doctor told him either you quit now or there will not be time to bring you to the hospital next time. Getting away from nicotine is difficult and you can have 1000 methods, but there is only one thing that allows you to stay away and that is willpower. My question is, did he have to have a hot flash to realize how bad it was? This story ended happily because he called himself to the good life and was able to get out of this vice.

My mother

What can I tell you about a lady who lived alone with me and my brother in a place with very difficult characteristics, in a period called "Special Period", where there was no rice to eat, no electricity, nothing. I can not criticize anything, since I never lacked a plate of food, good, bad or regular, there it was. His vice was cigarettes too, in my way of seeing life after these years that I have gained a little more maturity, I realized that it was his method of refuge. That doesn't mean it was right, but I can't criticize her. She currently suffers from Lupus, Diavetis, Hypertension but none of that compares to the oxygen insufficiency and obstruction she has in her veins. Do you know that this is due to smoking? He has been in critical moments and the first thing they send him to remove is the cigarette. Unfortunately his thought is that he will die smoking because he doesn't even try to quit.

Me

As I told you before, in the environment in which I developed it was normal, either by rebellion, or to make me more macho than anyone, in short it was normal to smoke a cigarette. A few years ago I did an allergy test and you know what? Positive to cigarette smoke, that's why I got so bad when I was near it, almost always because my environment was intoxicated. I have never been able to stand cigarettes for several reasons that I will share with you:
1- It develops serious respiratory diseases and is a trigger for others.
2- Bad breath
3- It makes teeth yellow
4- Absurd economic expense
5- It stains the fingertips yellow.
6- Creates anxiety due to nicotine, which leads to social problems in extreme cases when you do not have it near you.

My conclusion with the permission of those who smoke. It is that it is a dirty and profitable vice. Very frequent in early ages or in stressful situations.

I hate it