I was reading through the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and found an article about how cutting down on smoking doesn’t help your odds of dying early. For instance, a pack-a-day smoker who cuts down to 1/2 pack-a-day has the same odds of dying early as he did when he smoked a whole pack a day.
I mentioned this to a friend of mine who recently cut down on his smoking in order to try and help his body. When I told him about this story, I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard his response. “Well crap, I might as well go back to smoking a whole pack a day, then.”
OK, I understand how he could have been upset that the work he put into cutting down was all for nothing, but in my mind I was thinking that if he cut his smoking in half once, why not do it again? He already did it once so his confidence would have been high. But,alas…instead of doing this, he quickly decided to forget cutting down altogether.
