So, instead of starting with the feeling ‘Great! Have you heard the news? I haven’t got to smoke any more,’ he starts with a feeling of doom and gloom, as if he were trying to climb Everest, and he firmly believes that once the little monster has got his hooks into you, you are hooked for life. Many smokers even start the attempt by apologizing to their friends and relatives: ‘Look, I am trying to give up smoking. I will probably be irritable during the next few weeks. Try to bear with me.’ Most attempts are doomed before they start.
