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Allen Carr: My Experience with Smoking
Excerpts from: The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, Selected with an introduction by Ellopos
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If you go on kidding yourself that the cigarette was a genuine reward or that you need a substitute to take its place, you will feel deprived and miserable, and the chances are that you'll end up smoking again. If you need a genuine break, as housewives, teachers, doctors and other workers do, you'll soon be enjoying that break even more because you won't have to choke yourself.
Enjoy ridding your body of poison and your mind of slavery and dependence.
1 Make the solemn vow now and mean it.
2 Smoke that final cigarette consciously, inhale the filth deeply into your lungs and ask yourself where the pleasure is.
3 When you extinguish it, do so not with a feeling of: I must never smoke another, or I'm not allowed to smoke another, but with the feeling of: Isn't it great! I'm free! I'm no longer the slave of nicotine! I don't ever have to put these filthy things in my mouth again.
4 Be aware that for a few days, there will be a little nicotine saboteur inside your stomach. Every moment that passes that little monster inside you is dying. Enjoy your inevitable victory.
5 It is only the doubting and the waiting that make it difficult to quit.
Jaspers, Truth is in communication * Kierkegaard, My work as an author * Emerson, Reading and writing as self-knowledge * Francis Bacon, Reading & writing as moral activities * Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society * Gibson - MacRury, The man without a face * Dostoevsky, The dream of ridiculous man
