Now I don't. And that was because I won this fight many years ago.
After my moment of truth - when I was forced to accept that I was an addict, not a free man - I knew that this fight was the most important fight of my life. It took me eighteen months to kill the desire to smoke. And that is the key. Smoking is, above all, an emotional problem, a habit, not so much an addiction.The method I used to become a free man again was almost identical to this. I say almost because what took me a year and a half could have taken much less. Weeks or even days.
There is no drama or special supplements in this method. No 'will of iron' is necessary. And above all there is
no fear. (One of the biggest problems for most of us is our fear of change.)
It is a guide to your enemy. I suggest that you look into this.
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
OK, here’s another one.
"Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease caused by smoking, known as tobacco disease, is a permanent,
incurable reduction of pulmonary capacity characterized by shortness of breath, wheezing, persistant cough
with sputum, and damage to the lungs, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis."
That means that you can hardly breathe.
No treatment can reverse or stop emphysema. But doctors can relieve the symptoms a little, and lessen the
disability.
The lung tissue is destroyed and the normally elastic walls of the alveoli (the little balloons of air that move
oxygen into the blood) get stiff and rigid. So people with emphysema can breathe in, but have a hard time
letting it out. At times, it’s very frightening because you can’t breathe at all.
The worst thing here is that lung tissue does not regenerate.
You need oxygen 24 hours a day, usually through a plastic tube that goes up your nose. This oxygen can
either be stored in heavy metal cylinders or taken from the air by a machine the size of a small refrigerator.
(By the way, this is very expensive. Americans may well have a medical insurance problem.)
You’ll be hauling an oxygen tank around for the rest of your life.
And you’ll never climb stairs again.
