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Think about how you started smoking.

For most people, it will be a very pleasant and nostalgic memory. You may have been hiding, or even stealing cigarettes from your parents or close relatives. It was so spontaneous and exciting. That’s why you enjoyed smoking to the maximum. To the fullest extent. Where did it all go? Very often, because of the schedules and rules that you make up yourself, smoking ceases to be a pleasure in the past. This is also confirmed by the fact that many smokers after a long cessation and the ensuing breakdown notice that cigarettes at first seem very pleasant to taste, and the process of smoking again becomes inspiring. For the same reason, you stop loving one brand of cigarette or tobacco and start looking for others that are supposedly more delicious or more in line with your metaphysical query. You think logically and find excuses for yourself: «Maybe the manufacturer has changed his cigarette blend? Or have you started using lower quality mixes? There is something wrong with these cigarettes.» But the problem is not with cigarettes, it’s with you! It’s about missing out on the whole and denying your wishes by suppressing them with false rules, bans and schedules.

If people always remembered the beauty and fullness of smoking with which they started and aspired to it, they would not need bans and nicotine patches. There would be millions of times fewer smokers on our planet.

Think about it the next time you smoke, focus your attention on this idea.