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is the fear that smokers suffer when confronted with the prospect of having to stop.
    I now realize that many smokers don’t finish the book because they feel they have got to stop smoking when they do. Some deliberately read only one line a day in order to postpone what they perceive to be the ‘evil’ day. Now I am fully aware that many readers are only reading this book because they have had their arm twisted to do so by people that love them. Look at it this way: what have you got to lose? If you don’t stop at the end of the book, you are no worse off than you are now. YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO LOSE AND SO MUCH TO GAIN!
    Incidentally, if you have not smoked for a few days or weeks but are not yet sure whether you are a smoker, an ex-smoker or a non-smoker, then don’t smoke while you read. In fact, you are already a non-smoker. All we have to do is to let your brain catch up with your body. By the end of the book you’ll be a
happy
non-smoker.
    Basically my method is the complete opposite of the so-called ‘normal’ method of trying to stop. The ‘normal’ method is to list the considerable disadvantages of smoking and say, ‘If only I can go long enough without a cigarette, eventually the desire to smoke will subside. I then might be able to enjoy life again.’
    On the surface, this appears to be a logical way to go about it, however, the truth is that over 95% of such quit attempts end in failure for the following reasons:
    1. By focusing on the disadvantages of smoking we are addressing the wrong issue. We should be focused on whywe smoke, not why we shouldn’t smoke. Smokers already know they shouldn’t smoke, and if this knowledge were going to make them stop, it would have done so long ago. The real challenge is to understand the illusory reasons we do smoke, and deal with them.
    2. Some of the things we use to motivate us to abstain do make us want to quit, but some of them also make us want to smoke. This sounds illogical but it isn’t. Take the biggest reason that smokers want to stop: health. If you see an anti-smoking commercial highlighting the dangers of smoking, for example showing a throat cancer sufferer continuing to smoke through a hole in her throat, it provokes an emotional response based around the fear and anxiety that the same might happen to you. This in turn creates stress and the smoker’s first response to stress is to want to light a cigarette. This is why so many quit smoking campaigns make it harder, not easier, for smokers to stop.
    3. It perpetuates the myth that the smoker is sacrificing something or depriving himself of something when he stops. This sense of deprivation makes us feel miserable and vulnerable, which in turn makes the cigarette appear desirable. We have to use willpower not to give in to this desire and we enter that familiar cycle of wanting to smoke but not being allowed to. This deepens the misery and stress, which of course further heightens the desire to smoke, and so it continues until we can eventually take no more, admit defeat and light up. The problem here is not the cigarette itself, but the desire to smoke. If the smoker retains the desire to smoke then so long as he is not smoking, he will be miserable. This poor soul doesn’t ever become a true non-smoker, but remains forever a smoker who is not allowed to smoke, a bit like the AA’s ‘dry drunk’.
    The EASYWAY is basically this: to forget, for a time, the reasons we want to stop, to turn to face the cigarette and to ask ourselves the following questions:
    1. What does the cigarette really do for me?
    2. Do I really enjoy it?
    3. Do I really need to go through life paying through the nose just to stick these things in my mouth and suffocate myself?
    The beautiful truth is that it does absolutely nothing for you at all. Let me make it quite clear, I do not mean that the disadvantages of being a smoker outweigh the advantages;