A small cigarette has thousands of hazards. Every smoking friend knows in his heart that it is harmful to health, but he has no choice but to worry about three thousand things, and a cigarette is the best companion.
Since it is harmful to health, is it difficult to quit smoking? In a sense, quitting smoking is the simplest thing in the world, after all, you can quit dozens of times a year, and countless smokers have not gotten rid of the control of cigarettes throughout their lives.
Zeng Guofan, one of the four famous ministers of the late Qing Dynasty, is no stranger to us, ranking among the most people's subjects, and the official is a member of the Wuying Temple, the Governor of Liangjiang, and the Governor directly subordinate to him, and he founded the Xiang Army against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and saved the Qing Dynasty.
Zeng Guofan
However, Mr. Zeng is also an old smoker. According to historical records, Zeng Guofan liked to eat hookah, and his addiction to smoking was so great that he carried a pipe with him wherever he went, whether it was a court meeting, receiving friends and meetings, or reading and writing, a bag of cigarette pots, like a shadow.
Smoking also caused great trauma to Zeng Guofan's body, and he had severe lung disease at the age of thirty. Twenty years after Daoguang, Zeng Guofan entered Beijing, and the Annals record that he "moved to the Wanshun Guest House in Guozi Lane in June, fell ill and fell ill, and could not be saved, with the support of Mr. Zhaoxiong, Mr. Ouyang Xiaocen of Xiangtan, and the diagnosis and treatment of Wu Gongtingdong in Lu'an." The severe lung disease almost cost Zeng Guofan his life, thanks to the treatment of fellow villagers Ouyang Zhaoxiong and Wu Tingdong.
Smokers who smoked shisha in the Qing Dynasty
Zeng Guofan often felt that his body was tired, and he was determined to quit smoking, and wrote in his diary: "I get up early to eat tobacco, my mouth is bitter and my tongue is dry, and I feel that smoke is harmful and useless, and I can't leave it at the moment, and I think it is very much." He also made up his mind to quit smoking, "vowing to never eat tobacco from now on and smashing the hookah bag." In order to quit smoking, he smashed the smoking utensils, and Zeng Guofan, who was in a high position, succeeded?
On the seventh day of October in the 22nd year of Daoguang, about a year after the last time he quit smoking, Zeng Guofan wrote in his diary: "I talk too much this day, eat too much smoke, so I am sleepy." It can be seen that this year in the repeated cessation of smoking, or failure.
In Zeng Guofan's early diaries, the words "sleepiness", "withering", and "drowsiness" always appeared, and he attributed this situation to the cause of eating tobacco. Strict with himself, Zeng Guofan, who was highly respected and supported by "Zeng Sheng", could no longer bear his repeated act of quitting smoking, and consciously violated the sages, and on October 21 of the same year, with the determination of the gods, he swore to quit smoking.
Zeng Guofan's diary
He wrote in his diary, "After the guests left. Reading the daily fainting, because of eating more cigarettes, because of remorse to fold the cigarette bag, vowed never to eat tobacco again. If you break your word, the gods will perish. "Swear by poison and supervise by the gods, Zeng Guofan, as a generation of everyone, once again began the road of quitting smoking."
However, tobacco brings not only physical harm, but also spiritual dependence, Zeng Guofan's diary wrote: Since quitting smoking, the mind is wandering, almost no master, it is difficult to curb desire, and so on. "It can be said that it vividly describes the state when quitting smoking.
However, "those who have achieved great things in the past must not only have supernatural talents, but also have the will to persevere", how can Zeng Guofan, a generation of famous ministers, lack a tenacious character. A month later, in his diary, he wrote, "I quit smoking and will be in January." It's a bad day! In the letter of the ninth brother, he wrote: "On October 21, he vowed to abstain from shisha forever, and now that he has not eaten shisha for two months, he has become accustomed to becoming a natural thing."
Zeng Guofan sixteen character family training
With his tenacious perseverance and stoic character, Zeng Guofan finally succeeded in quitting shisha, and from then on he maintained an absolutely sober mind and an increasingly strong body, preparing for future sanctification and the late Qing Dynasty. Zeng Guofan has also become the "perfect man of all ages" in Chinese history.
The reason why the saint is holy, in addition to the noble character and excellent quality, persistence is also an important quality, in the matter of quitting smoking, although Zeng Guofan has also wavered, but in the end with tenacity and perseverance to succeed, and our ordinary people are only a persistence.