1 - Introduction
You can smoke as you read this book, if you haven't yet stopped smoking. By the time you're finished the book, you should have no desire to smoke.
The approach this book takes to stopping smoking—namely, first and foremost, helping you get rid of the desire to smoke—is the best option in stopping smoking, because it deals with the causes of the desire, not merely the symptoms. Your desire to smoke is not simply the result of a chemical addiction. The physical addiction is the least of it. The main things that keep you coming back are illusions about what smoking does for you.
Dismantling the illusions that support your desire to smoke—permanently—is the final stage of stopping smoking. If you're not there yet and won't be for a while, you first need the tools to get there. The book provides those tools.
In short, the book puts you on the road to stopping smoking. If you've tried to stop before, and have been on the road a while, which is most peoples' experience, it helps you to the next stage. Whether you are at the end of that journey or the beginning, it helps you understand the territory and find your way to success. The book is especially rewarding—even exciting—if you are indeed ready to stop.
Stopping smoking permanently is the best smoking-related experience of all. Every day after you've stopped, you're happy to be a non-smoker, you're deservedly proud of having gotten to this point in your life, you see your life is much better without smoking and you also enjoy life much more without smoking. Also, the process of stopping smoking, contrary to popular opinion, should be a rewarding experience—one of the best experiences of your life.
You don't need to be on holidays. You don't even need to want to stop smoking right now. You just need to want to stop smoking permanently; and you should want to know how to pleasurably stop smoking.
That's the road ahead. Read on if you dare.