"I smoked for 25 years. When it became necessary to quit, I couldn't. I tried it all. Nothing worked. I have an educational background that includes the study of psychology. When I realized the problem, I created this method, using myself as the ""guinea pig"". I successfully broke the addiction after completion of a course in throat cancer surgery and esophegeal speech at the University of Miami Medical School, a groundbreaking symposium drawing doctors and speech therapists from around the world. There, I watched in horror as my post-operative patient lit up through the hole (stoma) at the base of his throat, his only source of breath or sound. The surgery was difficult to watch. Esophageal speech had just been created and, since non-victims could not emulate the process, was difficult to teach, This small book is the method I devised by which I and several friends stopped smoking. It works. All that's needed is the desire to quit and the diary."
You have written a helpful guide here, and it addresses many of the secondary rewards that are embedded in smoking addiction. In breaking the association between smoking and pleasurable activities, and in making smoking more of a required chore than reward, you are challenging the place that cigarettes have in people's lives. You also address the fear that one is relinquishing their friend forever, thereby activating feelings of loss and anxiety.. Carol Povenmire, Ph.D. I saw my mother use this method to break a 25-year smoking addiction. It works! Michael Geier