All these things indirectly diminish the amount of air we breathe into our lungs; they make it less comfortable for us to breathe deeply. Try it for yourself right now: when your shoulders go forward and your neck and head bend forward, you simply cannot breathe deeply without causing yourself discomfort.
If you don’t get enough oxygen into those poor cramped lungs, then your body falters in its job of burning up waste materials. And if that happens, you must feel “stale,” “achey,” “cramped.”
And so there is a sound physical reason for using three deep, deep breaths in our battle against the cigarette habit.
Even if you did nothing else after reading this book . . . even if you continued to inhale and exhale all those irritants and poisons … even if you continued to smoke excessively—you’d nevertheless feel a lot better if you could teach yourself to punctuate your day with deep breaths. But let’s hope that you won’t settle for that. It’s not just that you don’t want to become another statistic that will someday convince someone else that the cigarette habit is not exactly healthy. The big point is that not smoking will make you a new person—more energetic, far healthier, a more effective worker, a brighter personality.
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