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Does the pleasure cheer us up when we indulge a desire? The first complication is that the depression returns minutes later, but then there’s always the next cigarette followed by another and then another. For years on end, from early morning to late at night always more cigarettes, always another!

Does it help the depression or is it keeping us depressed with the endless puffing or is there another factor? Does it really make ANY wholesome difference?

I have met people who smoked and believed that the cigarettes helped deal with their illness. Once they stop, ALL of them say that “life is so much better without the enslavement to the addiction, without the obsession to consume the poisonous, noxious smoke!”

Quitting makes life better in a thousand ways. Among the most important is that this new awakening permits all manner of healthier and more fulfilling choices. One is not living for the next cigarette. Our depression is one thing that gets addressed significantly.

We’ve had cigarettes for so long that we can’t imagine living without them! A commonly voiced fear is that we might even be forced to feel things. Cigarettes are more likely to kill us than feeling our emotions. Emotions make us feel alive—does a smoke really do THAT?