Giving up Tobacco and Alcohol
Anyone who has been a long-term smoker of cigarettes and a drinker of alcohol will know the harmful effects of these non-essential items of consumption on the physical body, and I as a graduate in Pharmacology was no exception. Nonetheless, in my youth I smoked and drank quite excessively.
When I got married however in 1985 I gave up smoking altogether and only drank alcohol socially.
From the time in 1998 that I lost my job in science and was reduced to poverty, the cost of tobacco and alcohol was another factor in giving up both cigarettes and alcohol for a very long period of time in years. It got to a point that I could not then even tolerate the smell of cigarettes from passive smoking the smoke of others.
Then I became embroiled in legal proceedings that intensified and I was persecuted by the powers that be of…
Givng up tobacco was easier said than done: after 34 hours absitnence I started smoking again. Perhaps I need psychotherapy from the Medway Council No Smoking Unit. I will contact them soon,