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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Lung Cancer
"It's Harder to Have Cancer Than It Is to Quit Smoking"
What do you really know about lung cancer?
If you have the courage, go and visit a hospital where you’ll see smokers at the ends of their careers. You could see your future. Or, failing that, have a drink with one of the doctors who treat them.
The brave woman who gave us the quote at the head of this article went on to say –
"Now my life and my family's lives are very stressful, painful, expensive and inconvenient for everyone. I have to
drive over 100 miles a day to go to radiation treatments five days a week, with weekends and holidays off. I guess cancer has it's own union..*weak smile*. I do this for five weeks with two weeks off, and then two more weeks of radiation. It hurts and burns. It gives me spasms that are as painful as heart attacks. I got thrush from the chemotherapy, and at times I can't even swallow water. I have to be driven by someone who loses that many hours a day of their life/work time because I am too ill and tired to drive myself.
I will do four rounds of chemotherapy during the radiation process. Chemo three days every three weeks. It's pure poison, and it makes me so ill I can't breathe, eat or drink sometimes. When all of these treatments are completed, and if I live though it, they will test me to see what the cancers have done. They will have either grown more and gone to my brain, liver, or bones, or if I am fortunate enough to be blessed, they will be gone.
But wait...they will come back...my kind of cancer always does."
She later talks about the oncologist (the cancer specialist)
"He's young and looks very weary for his age. I actually worry about him. … He sees so many patients like myself. What a sad job. His amazement is at why anyone...in this day and age...would smoke in the first place."
She died at 56.
