The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently: Quit cigarettes for good with this groundbreaking method (Penguin Health Care & Fitness)

by Allen Carr

When you extinguish that final cigarette, you will find that your smoking friends and colleagues will fall into two distinct categories. The first I referred to earlier: the ones that blow smoke in your face, perpetually remind you of the pleasures of being a smoker and continue to offer you cigarettes in the pretence they have forgetten that you’ve quit. Why do even relatives and good friends become so unpleasant and vindictive in these circumstances? The first thing that you need to realise is that you are dealing with the fear and panic of a drug addict. All aggression is based on fear. The great advantage of panic is that it enables us to place our own survival above all else. The great disadvantage of panic is that because we are oblivious to all else other than our own survival, we commit acts of which we are ashamed for the rest of our lives.