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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The Story Of Linda's Dad
Let me tell you about the father of a friend of mine.
He used to smoke a lot, and now he doesn’t. He 'wanted' to give up smoking for many, many years. And at
last, he came to his moment of truth.
He gritted his teeth for 'cold turkey' but he obviously didn't grit them hard enough.
He tried the nicotine patches, but he quickly found himself smoking at the same time.
And he tried the nicotine gums, but they didn’t work either.
Later, he gave hypnosis a go. The hypnotists - many hypnotists - promised him that it would be easy and
painless, that he would not need 'will power', that 'naturally' he would rise above the desire to smoke. And
that smoking would just fall away from his life.
Nope. Not for him, anyway.
Acupuncture did nothing at all. He just continued smoking as if nothing had happened.
Neither did the 'natural' remedies you see everywhere. (They were more expensive than the acupuncture. And
they took longer to fail.)
What stopped the habit? What stopped his smoking stone dead?
Emphysema, that’s what.
What is emphysema?
It is a chronic lung disease - there is no cure - in which air sacs and the surrounding lung tissues are destroyed. Cigarette smoking is by far the most common cause.
It is a progressive lung disease caused by damage to the airways in the lungs. It develops gradually over many years – therefore you may not notice anything before your lungs have already been damaged beyond hope.
Emphysema is most likely to develop in cigarette smokers, but cigar and pipe smokers also can get it. And
the risk for all smokers increases with how long you smoke and how much you smoke.
He is now in his early sixties - prematurely retired some years ago - and he spends his days almost not
moving. He is literally tied to a machine the size of a refrigerator that gives him the oxygen he needs.
Without the machine, he would be dead in minutes.
Can you imagine what it’s like to live with oxygen in a nose hose 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
His life took on a completely new direction when he was told that he had emphysema.
At this point he realised that he had quit smoking too late.
The disease had been creeping up on him for years. He’d been coughing his "smoker's cough" around the
clock without giving it a second thought.
Once lung tissue is destroyed, it cannot be repaired.
It is very important to understand that emphysema is chronic - it is for the rest of your life - and it may kill
you. Slowly.
Eventually with emphysema, the walls in the lungs stretch and break, creating larger, less efficient air sacs
that aren't able to handle the normal exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Because the larger, less-
elastic sacs aren't able to force air completely out of your lungs when you exhale, you have to breathe harder
to take in enough oxygen and to eliminate the carbon dioxide. When you exert yourself and need more
oxygen, your chest muscles contract, forcing air out rapidly.
Three to five minutes of oxygen deprivation causes irreversible brain damage.
Sometimes he goes out for a little walk, but it’s all very slow and frustrating. He feels like an astronaut, he
says, carrying his oxygen tank on his back. It weighs a lot, and the walk is not fun. And if there’s a
mechanical malfunction, he’ll choke to death in the street.
And what does he have to tell us?
That smoking addiction is mainly in the mind. That any method to finish with smoking will work fine if you
have won the battle in your mind.
Otherwise, no.
My friend, Linda, his daughter doesn’t smoke. She really hates it.
