Fitness And Healthy Blog

Brief description of the psychology behind excessive smoking, and how to use that psychology as a weapon against smoking.

“Excess” means “more than what is right, proper or necessary.” When used in medicine, it means “more than is good for continued good health” We can eat too much, work too much, drink too much (including non-alcoholic liquids), sleep too much, and so on; and while any such excess is potentially troublesome, some excesses are worse than others.

Smoking must be put in that category, because it has vastly increased the incidence of lung cancer and coronary artery diseases, and because it plays a significant role in increasing the mortality rate in other pathologies.

I remember as a child watching a television dramatization that dealt with the concept of God’s time. It had to have had an effect on me, because to this day I find measuring time to be a difficult thing. In the musical Rent, they take a year and divide it into minutes. They also correctly point out that that is a measurement of numbers not human interaction, clearly not the way to measure the life of a friend.