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

by Allen Carr

The nearest thing to the nicotine trap in nature is the process by which a fly is lured into a pitcher plant. So named because it is shaped like a pitcher – the jug not the baseball player. Insects are attracted to the smell of the sticky goo with which the rim and internal surfaces of the plant are liberally coated. The hairs on the plant grow in one direction only – downwards, which combined with the effects of gravity, ensures that the fly travels in the same direction. This is of no concern to the fly because it can fly off whenever it chooses. But why should it even want to fly off? After all the nectar is delicious. Not until it is being digested by the juices in the base of the plant does the fly realise that it’s being eaten by the plant, rather than the other way around, does the fly have any desire to leave. Too late! By then it is so saturated by the goo it can no longer move let alone fly.