Being a regular smoker, I caught the habit through a lot of influences at a very young age; inclusive of the influence of my father who was a smoker during his middle age years... but apparently his habit has been passed down to me years before he managed to turn cold turkey on it.
Eversince, I've been bombarded by parents, my older sibling, relatives and friends... to stop. They become fresh degree graduate scholars that did multiple thesis of the tobacco product within a day, indicating in detail the bad symptoms that I'm going to get if I keep killing myself 5minutes with each burning stick.
Posters, televised media, magazines slapping pages/articles on the dangers of smoking... adding particular vivid images of the effects of prolonged exposure - eventhough the intention is good to keep would-be smokers to stop from continuing to make it into a habit... does not bode well for those who already are into the habit... these advertisements simply become ammunition for "scholars" to shoot your nerves down with their verbal battering... and most likely, you'll end up on the tracks to becoming a puffing dragon again.
With all this hopelessness and with so much futile attempts at putting a stop to my addiction, I begin to wonder... when can I stop the habit?
