Post by otm on May 30, 2019 0:26:49 GMT
[Posted on QSMB Aug 16, 2012.]
Don’t smoke . and your going to be fine.! Think like a non smoker and your going to be fine ! Hang on just a little bit longer and your going to be fine ! Don’t say Hope and try . change the way you think and your going to be fine! Don’t Smoke !
Over and over , the post are endless. And find me guilty I have written more then my fair share.
But today something dawned on me
Cigarette manufactures never sold cigarettes. That’s why they became so popular. They sold the idea of a perfect life or the idea of being someone you were not , but wanted to be. The Marlboro man never really said Oh you got to smoke these,, He simply was the image of nostalgia , ridding off into the sunset on the back of his chestnut mount.
Or how about james dean ,, was he ever paid a dime for the millions of cigarettes he sold im his short life
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Or how about this one the person as I child wished to be , no one was ever as cool as fast eddie
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I guess I was doomed to smoke before I ever made it threw middle school , when I wasnt trying to be a pool shark , I use to think if all else fails there is always prison , it looked like fun to me.
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how many addicts did these images born. No child wants to grow up to be an addict , they only want to fit in and be welcomed by there peers.
That what cigarette companies sold ,, and still to this day are trying to sell
There not selling a person on the idea of smoking , there selling them on things they will never have , and preying on there weekness , the human need to be wanted . loved and excepted
Who didn’t love Cool hand Luke ?
So to my revelation:
People come to this place to read and learn about the process of
Quitting . I am from the school there is no such thing as “quitting”
There is smoking and there is not smoking . Once you stop smoking . all that remains is adjusting to this new life style .
I could go on and on about my philosophy on quitting but that is not the point of this post , I am more trying to convey a thought on helping others . So with that being said ,,
The people that come here for the most part are here because they don’t want to smoke
And then a lot of times all they here in reply to a post or question is Don’t smoke
Well NO Schit Sherlock
So its dawned on me today ,
We don’t need to tell these people not to “ Don’t Smoke” , we need to reinforce there own reasons they choose to quit smoking . and we need to support the way they choose to quit smoking, This is there quit , not ares , are personal beliefs weigh nothing in there mind and in there quit.
We need to let them know , no matter the mood swings or there ever growing asses , there family loves and respects them. To remind them , althou it is for them self they are quitting it is all they love that will benefit. We need to remind them when there will power is week ,that this is what they choose to do and that there reasons were sound.
In fact I am sure much sounder then there reasons they ever picked up the first cigarette
Men much smarter then I can up with this theory , to sell a person what they want to be,,
to support others in there quit to become the person they now wish to be, is the only way to see victory on this battle feild.
Don’t smoke . and your going to be fine.! Think like a non smoker and your going to be fine ! Hang on just a little bit longer and your going to be fine ! Don’t say Hope and try . change the way you think and your going to be fine! Don’t Smoke !
Over and over , the post are endless. And find me guilty I have written more then my fair share.
But today something dawned on me
Cigarette manufactures never sold cigarettes. That’s why they became so popular. They sold the idea of a perfect life or the idea of being someone you were not , but wanted to be. The Marlboro man never really said Oh you got to smoke these,, He simply was the image of nostalgia , ridding off into the sunset on the back of his chestnut mount.
Or how about james dean ,, was he ever paid a dime for the millions of cigarettes he sold im his short life
Image
Or how about this one the person as I child wished to be , no one was ever as cool as fast eddie
Image
I guess I was doomed to smoke before I ever made it threw middle school , when I wasnt trying to be a pool shark , I use to think if all else fails there is always prison , it looked like fun to me.
Image
how many addicts did these images born. No child wants to grow up to be an addict , they only want to fit in and be welcomed by there peers.
That what cigarette companies sold ,, and still to this day are trying to sell
There not selling a person on the idea of smoking , there selling them on things they will never have , and preying on there weekness , the human need to be wanted . loved and excepted
Who didn’t love Cool hand Luke ?
So to my revelation:
People come to this place to read and learn about the process of
Quitting . I am from the school there is no such thing as “quitting”
There is smoking and there is not smoking . Once you stop smoking . all that remains is adjusting to this new life style .
I could go on and on about my philosophy on quitting but that is not the point of this post , I am more trying to convey a thought on helping others . So with that being said ,,
The people that come here for the most part are here because they don’t want to smoke
And then a lot of times all they here in reply to a post or question is Don’t smoke
Well NO Schit Sherlock
So its dawned on me today ,
We don’t need to tell these people not to “ Don’t Smoke” , we need to reinforce there own reasons they choose to quit smoking . and we need to support the way they choose to quit smoking, This is there quit , not ares , are personal beliefs weigh nothing in there mind and in there quit.
We need to let them know , no matter the mood swings or there ever growing asses , there family loves and respects them. To remind them , althou it is for them self they are quitting it is all they love that will benefit. We need to remind them when there will power is week ,that this is what they choose to do and that there reasons were sound.
In fact I am sure much sounder then there reasons they ever picked up the first cigarette
Men much smarter then I can up with this theory , to sell a person what they want to be,,
to support others in there quit to become the person they now wish to be, is the only way to see victory on this battle feild.