How I Quit Smoking

By Toni García Arias

“How I Quit Smoking” is the book that will help you quit smoking once and for all. This book was written by a smoker who, after almost twenty years smoking two packs of cigarettes a day, has quit smoking and not gone back. Thanks to his experience, in this book you will learn what’s true and what’s not when it comes to quitting smoking. Quitting isn’t easy, but this book and its author will be by your side throughout the entire process so you can be successful. Let’s do it!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Sep 14, 2019
• ISBN: 9781547599042

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HOW I

QUIT

SMOKING

What’s True and What’s Not

When It Comes to Quitting Smoking

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TONY GARCÍA

Copyright © 2019 Tony García

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Note to Reader

PART I: I LIKE TO SMOKE

I Like to Smoke

Smoker for Life

More Than a Pack a Day

The Big Lie Experts Tell

Tobacco Dependence

What is the Worst Type of Dependence?

Why Is Nicotine So Dangerous?

How Does Nicotine Control Us?

PART II: MY FIRST ATTEMPT AT QUITTING SMOKING: A DISASTROUS EXPERIMENT

Withdrawal

My Action Plan

Those of Us Who Smoke a Lot Also Lie a Lot

The Big Failure

Why Did My First Attempt Fail?

PART III: THE BIG DECISION

Why Quit Smoking?

Justifications

Smoking Is a Handicap

My Big Fears About Quitting Smoking

The Big Decision

It’s Good to Have Friends!

The Electronic Cigarette

My First Order

Goodbye To My Great Ally, the Electronic Cigarette

Water and Gum. Lots of Water and Lots of Gum.

My First Day Not Vaping

The First Week: The Decisive Week

The Mind: Our Greatest Enemy

My Strategy

Mission Accomplished

Benefits of Not Smoking

PART IV: WHAT’S TRUE AND WHAT’S NOT WHEN IT COMES TO QUITTING SMOKING

What’s True and What’s Not When It Comes to Quitting Smoking

Will You Miss Smoking?

Am I a Different Person?

How Often Will I Have a Serious Temptation to Smoke?

PART V: NOW IT’S YOUR TURN

Now It’s Your Turn

Note to Reader

We all know that tobacco is bad for our health. Smokers know this perfectly well. When we smoke, we notice that sometimes we have trouble breathing, struggle to exercise without getting extremely winded, and sleep poorly. Even so, the damage done by smoking becomes even more obvious when we quit. That is when we truly realize how much harm we were doing ourselves by smoking.

I am not going to cover the benefits of quitting smoking in this book because you are surely already familiar with them. There are thousands of websites that cover the health problems caused by smoking and the benefits of quitting. I will address those benefits very briefly at the end of the book, the ones that I observed in my own body. Those are the visible benefits, the ones that are immediately clear.

In this book, I will tell you how I managed to quit smoking, what my strategy was, what I went through during the process, and everything I gained from giving up tobacco. My goal in doing so is for my story to help YOU quit smoking, too. I must warn you, however, that it will not be easy. Not at all. I, as I imagine you may be, was an adamant smoker, a smoker who loved to smoke. I liked the flavor of the tobacco in my mouth. I liked the sensation I got from my first cigarette of the day. And the one after lunch. And the one after dinner.

Like I said, quitting smoking is not an easy task, but it is essential to our quality of life. Smoking harms our