100 Days: How I Gave Up Smoking Without Putting on Weight, and Without Using Patches or Other Drugs

By George Bruce

How I gave up smoking without putting on weight, and without using patches or other drugs.

There is no logical reason for smoking.
That’s the part you must understand.
If there’s no reason, then why do we continue to do it?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publicious Book Publishing
• Release date: May 11, 2018
• ISBN: 9780646987927

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Introduction

G’day, and thank you for purchasing this book.

By doing so you’re indicating to me, that you want to give up smoking, just as I did several years ago.

Nearly 30 years ago, actually.

Why has it taken so long to write this book, I hear you ask?

Well, to be honest, I didn’t think anyone else would follow the methods I used.

Then, to my amazement, several friends over the years have asked me to help them to give up smoking.

So, on each of those occasions I’ve explained to them, as best I could (because the book wasn’t written then), how I was able to beat this horrible habit.

Much to my surprise, and absolute delight, several of those people (but sadly not all), were able to follow my process and finally achieve freedom from smoking.

Quite simply, because not all of the people who tried to give up smoking using my methods succeeded in giving up, I never thought it suitable to publish my findings and methods.

Lately though, as the years of my life continue to roll by, I’m delighted to be as fit and able as when I was in my early twenties.

In my mind, this is largely a result of giving up smoking.

Conversely, I have observed many of my friends who continue to smoke, seem to attract one bad ailment after another.

Whether this is purely co-incidental or actually as a direct result of long term smoking, I can’t be 100% sure.

One thing is for sure though, and that’s the obvious similarities between smokers and the number of coughs and colds they seem to acquire.

Not to mention the general unhealthy and tired look a smoker tends to get after years of smoking that says I’m just not as fit and healthy as I used to be.

When you’re young, smoking is all fun, harmless and cool.

And typical of youth (and I hope it never changes), you’re energetic and think you’re completely indestructible.

The problem is, as a result of youth, there is a tendency to ignore all the bad health indicators, and refuse to admit they may be symptoms of smoking.

The shortness of breath, the fast heart beat rate (my resting pulse was 90-100 beats per minute as a smoker, compared to 55-65 as a healthy non smoker), the morning coughs, followed soon by the all-day coughs.

The fitness aspects (or lack of) are all too common also.

The option to take the elevator rather than to climb stairs goes by largely un-noticed.

Sport becomes non-competitive (or non-existent) due primarily to the inability to remain truly fit enough to compete at competitive levels.

Another undesirable side effect of smoking is bad breath. In fact, I found my whole body just smelt stale.

I could go on and on with the unwanted side effects, but I’m sure you already have your own list.

Then you enter your thirties, forties and fifties (where I am now) and, if you have continued to smoke all this time, the story suddenly changes, for the worst.

All those little ailments suddenly take on a whole new level of torture.

The coughs sound like death warmed up, the stairs don’t even get looked at as an option any more, and sport is nothing but a memory, or something you watch on TV.

As a smoker, you’re probably not even aware of what healthy non-smokers think and say amongst themselves when they observe these horrible side effects of long-term smoking.

It’s generally accepted that your days are probably numbered and the end is inevitable.

It’s so horrible, yet so true.

In true human fashion, you are ostracised like those in previous centuries who caught diseases like the plague.

So why do we do it? Why do so many of us continue to smoke when, for the few enjoyable aspects of smoking, there are so many long-term detrimental effects?

The answer is not simple, and the solution is even more difficult to work out.

But the solution must be found if you are ever to enjoy the life of health, and freedom from addiction that everyone deserves.

In addition, when we can find the answer for you, you will not only enjoy a better life, it will most likely be a much longer life.

That’s what this book is