Friendship

Sometimes we have a friend who like to treat, not because they have abundance of cash, it's just they put friendship over money.

Sometimes we have a friend who love to work, it's not because they are pretending they are diligent, but they understand about responsibilities.

Sometimes a friend ask for apologize before us after a fight, not because they are wrong but it;s because they respect people surround them.

Sometimes we have friends who are willing to help us, not because they owe us anything but because they see as as a friend.

Sometimes a friend who always send you an electronic message or Whatsapp is not because they have nothing to do but because they remember you.

One day all of us will be apart. we will memorize those talks & dreams which were in our times.. days by days, months, years till the relationship become a stranger.

One day our kids and grand kids will see our photographs and ask? " who are all of these people?"

and we will smile with invisible teardrops  and will say 

" I have my most beautiful days with them"

How Do I stop Smoking

I've been a smoker for more than 10 years. long short story I've been trying to quit smoking due to health consideration, i tried hundreds of time in order to quite but failed .. in various durations, some effort last for 1 days, some other effort could last for 3 months, but it keeps me back to the addiction again.

Is it really Nicotine addiction that causes it difficult to quit?I've heard so many people taking substitute product like nicotine gums, as they think that they are addicted to Nicotine, so that they need to maintain the availability of those nicotine in their blood.

My observation to this provide my own conclusion. it's not nicotine which is entering your blood which is causing the temptation ,in which when you are free from cigarette, your blood is so tempting to grab some nicotine. I'd rather think it's the habit that has become automatic, that has become a routines. you'd feel your morning mood is bad when you have no cigarette being sucked, or your lunch would taste plain withouth a puff. this kind of stuff.


So how did I quit?

1. Reason

You need to find out a real reason to quite, a major reason, it could be because of your health, family, or any other special reason

2. Create a new habit

As I understand the temptation as habit rather than addiction  so you must create a new habit those include .. avoiding those places or materials or even social friend that could make you return to smoking habit. for example if you tend to eat breakfast in a cafe where you used to smoke, you can now have breakfast at office kitchen.

3. Keep it UP

When you are able to make new habit the next step is to make a consistent move, those include challenging your own self on those progression that you have made. Keeping it up also means that you need to encourage and remind yourself of the objective of you creating those new habit. those also includes effort o fool your mind, meaning to say, when you have a huge temptation to smoke, you should be able to negotiate with your mind so that you will not fall into 1 puff that will lead you to old habit. this effort also include self hypnosis, visualization or meditation

These are really the effort that i have taken in order to quit. and it's been 3rd year for me now enjoying better health as non smoker. 

Fact about Tobacco That you don't know

We have heard so many warning related to hundreds of chemical inside the cigarette right? those are some facts that are related to what are contained in a cigarette.

I was working in a cigarette company, which is one of largest tobacco company in the world. so i'll share a bit of my experience in working with the company, hopefully the fact will provide you more understanding about the tobacco.

Tobacco Treatment

Let's start with Tobacco leave as the main component of cigarette. so Tobacco leaves which comes from farmers are being drought before then send to the factory to be manufactured.  These dried leaves need to be handled carefully in the warehouse, why? as there are few risk related to the dried leaves, those includes fire, humidity, leakages, etc.

I will not discuss in detail about each of the risk on the tobacco warehouse, as those are not the focus of this article. what is important for those smokers are how the tobacco company handle those leaves when they found bugs on it? do you think they will try to filter those tobacco package by package? or clean up in a safe way for the sake of their customers? no man.. they will spray the insecticide or fumigate those leaves in order to get them clean from bugs. have you heard about this before? never right?

Taste - The Sauce

Let's get to the next level of the manufacturing process. those dried leaves will be chopped into smaller pieces before then cooked with a sauces. What is sauce? it's really a mixtures of those ingredient to make the tobacco product has different tastes, not just plain tobacco leave, but it has substances of chemical products.

Packaging

The next process after cooking is to wrap those cooked tobacco with the cigarette paper, before then glued with the filter.  the paper, glue, and filter (those sponge-like component ) these are additional contributors to the chemical part of the tobacco.

So as you know that those anti-cigarette advertisement that you might have seen in hospital or any other places telling about hundreds of chemical contained in a cigarette product are correlated with those manufacturing process explained above. Hope this article provide more understanding about the dangerous of those ciggarette, so stop smoking as soon as you can