I just read the reviews of this book at Amazon. Wow, it seems like this guy has really hit on something. Testimony after testimony of giving up smoking with an amazing ease. I'm putting it on my wish list because although I quit years ago I'd love to understand what this guy's method is since it is apparently incredibly effective.
I used to smoke very heavily and tried to quit time after time as smokers usually do, as the intro to this book also affirms. I'd do the usual rummaging through the garbage to find a bit of a butt to smoke, I'd throw out partial packs, even drown them in water to make them unsmokeable, then find myself going down to the Seven Eleven at midnight to get another pack. I did manage to quit for two years once and it was exactly as the guy describes, a daily struggle that made going back to it inevitable when life got a little more stressful.
When I did quit it was at a Christian seminar where we were asked to pray about something we thought the Lord would want us to get out of our lives. I prayed to give up smoking. When I got in my car after the seminar I lit up the half smoked cigarette I'd left in the ashtray, smoked it down to the filter, thinking the whole time "Why am I doing this after praying to stop?" I don't know what made it possible but that was the last cigarette I ever smoked. And the urge was gone gone gone, never had the slightest desire after that.
That was in August of 1989.
So I'm wondering if whatever happened to me psychologically that made it so easy for me to quit through prayer was similar to what happens to people who quit with such ease from this book. I'd like to find out.
ABE: I mean of course God changed my desire to smoke because I did pray, but I'm talking here about the psychological component of it, HOW He changed my desire, what mental change occurred that made it possible to simply put cigarettes absolutely out of mind as I did from then on.
Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
Edited by Faith, : No reason given.