I quit smoking about thirteen years ago, and I am very glad that I did it. This is great when you don’t need to inhale smoke and tars into your lungs. This is wonderful when you don’t need to worry, can you smoke another cigarette in ten minutes or you have to wait.
After I quit smoking, I changed a couple of jobs and ended up working as a clerk at a local store. The work was simple, easy to do, and without overworking.
After a while, I noticed that I had stopped to get ill. Before that, I got colds several times per year. Typically I get cold in early winter and spring. During my work at that place, I recall only one case of a cold, when I drank cold Coca-Cola in the hot summer day and after that I had a sore throat. No matter how much I strain my memory, I don’t remember another case of a cold during that period of time.
At that time, I thought that my immunity to colds increased because I quit smoking.
Unfortunately, after five or six years of happiness our shop closed and I had to look for another job. Since then I have three jobs. These jobs were not so simple and easy and often I must work additional hours. Sometimes I had to work a couple of weeks without a day off.
And after a time I noticed that colds returned. Only after a few months I got a severe case of flu. I lay on my bed under a warm blanket for two days. And later on the colds became quite frequent.
And recently, I realized that it was not me quitting smoking that improved my immunity, it were good conditions at working place. I understood that, work can harm your health more than cigarettes. And my jobs are no way the hardest ones.
So we can come to a conclusion that it is very important to your health to have a good job that you like, without overworking, without a lot of pressure on you. This is not entirely feasible in modern world, but this is what we must be conscious about.
And what do you think about it? Tell me how hard your work is, how it affects your health?
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