No smoker, given the chance of going back to the time before he became hooked with the knowledge
he has now, would opt to start. Many of the smokers who consult me are convinced that if I could
only help them stop, they would never dream of smoking again, and yet thousands of smokers
successfully kick the habit for many years and lead perfectly happy lives, only to get trapped once
again.
I trust that this book will help you to find it relatively easy to stop smoking. But be warned:
smokers who find it easy to stop find it easy to start again,
DO NOT FALL FOR THIS TRAP.
No matter how long you have stopped or how confident you are that you will never become hooked
again, make it a rule of life not to smoke for any reason. Resist the millions of pounds that the tobacco
companies spend on promotion, and remember they are pushing the No. 1 killer drug and poison.
You wouldn't be tempted to try heroin; and cigarettes kill hundreds of thousands more people than
heroin does.
Remember, that first cigarette will do nothing for you. You will have no withdrawal pangs to
relieve, and it will taste awful. What it will do is to put nicotine into your body, and a little voice at
the back of your mind will be saying, 'You want another one.' Then you have got the choice of being
miserable for a while or starting the whole filthy chain again.