I am so very happy to have quit smoking forever! I had smoked off and on since I was 16. Reasons being to be cool, socializing, native american peace ritual (no kidding!) habit, stress, mental illness. When I read Allan Carr's book and I finally realized that cigarettes were making all those thing harder and that I was really putting an average of 20 hits of a lethal drug into my body every time I smoked, not to mention spending far too much on the addiction that was destroying my teeth and gums and making me smell hideous, I had a great epiphany and know now that I will NEVER smoke again! I have the urges still every now and then from triggers but every time I just laugh and say to my self, "that(smoking) will not help the problem at all, and will even make it worse." My new mantra is THIS TOO SHALL PASS! and it works for everything to bring me peace in that whatever it is I am going through it's temporary and to just not be afraid of either losing it if it's happy, or wallowing in it if it's not. I am telling everyone I can about the book and this site, and am so exuberantly happy and SMOKE FREE FOR LIFE!!!! bless you all and have a great day! Nicole
