| Why and how you should quit smoking53 years ago I | | | | spells at night and the vision in my left eye was |
| had a friend and she was a girl.(not an official | | | | deteriorating.Me quitting smoking? Impossible- I have no |
| Girlfriend).Her mom smoked and worked during the | | | | willpower.Because I knew I could not quit I never even |
| day so daughter used to pinch her smokes and | | | | bothered to buy Nicorette or any other stuff.So after a |
| shared them with me. Both my parents smoked as | | | | whole lifetime of smoking I was going to die of lung |
| well.So off and on I got used to smoking; my smoking | | | | cancer too.BUT WAIT: the story is not finished yet.On |
| got a real boost when I became a sailor at the age of | | | | September 4, 2002 I was in Calgary browsing in a |
| 17, because you could buy cigarettes tax-free when | | | | bookstore called Brown and Noble and a book jumped |
| you were outside territorial waters.Over time I started | | | | out at me.The book was called "How to stop smoking" |
| smoking more and more cigarettes and had to get up | | | | and had 385 pages in it.I glanced at the first couple of |
| a couple of times a night to have another nicotine | | | | pages where the author boasted that this book was |
| fix.Life without cigarettes was just not imaginable.Going | | | | the only way to quit smoking without any withdrawal |
| on an airline trip was sheer torture because I could not | | | | symptoms or without the Patch.I bought the book |
| smoke for a couple of hours.We flew to Singapore | | | | because I was curious as to what you could write 385 |
| once and I had a couple of smokes in the washroom | | | | pages about how to quit smoking.It took me 9 days to |
| in spite of the fact that airplanes were already putting | | | | read the book.On September 13, 2002 at 3 PM I took |
| people in jail for smoking.Over the years half of my | | | | my last drag and exhaled it through a Kleenex.That |
| mom's family died of lung cancer.My dad's only sibling | | | | was my last cigarette. I have never even thought |
| died of lung cancer.My mom died of a brain tumor-she | | | | about smoking. |
| used to be a heavy smoker.My dad got lung | | | | People can smoke around me and I don't give it a |
| cancer.After he got lung cancer he visited me; he was | | | | thought.The book changes your Mindset.The book is |
| a pathetic skin over bones man now, wearing a | | | | called "How to stop smoking" by Allan Carr, a British |
| corduroy suit, BUT STILL SMOKING IN MY | | | | Accountant and is not available in the United States.I no |
| GARAGE.My brother's wife has breast cancer; my | | | | longer cough at night and the vision in my left eye is |
| brother still smokes cigars.I started having coughing | | | | fine now. |