This is a book for those who smoke and want to stop and for those whoÕve stopped but need reassurance. IÕm the latter. I started and stopped four times and this final time was the last. IÕm never going to take the crown from Allan Carr for writing a practical book about quitting smoking so IÕve written my own, consisting of cold facts, personal memories, home-spun philosophies and hard life experience.
IÕll make a deal with you: as long as youÕre reading this book, you wonÕt smoke. I donÕt mean just as long as youÕre physically holding the book in your hands and lifting the words from the page with your eyes, even if you read a little, a few pages, then put it down and go off and do something else and then come back to it again. No. As long as thereÕs a relationship between you and the contents of this book, you wonÕt smoke. Is that a deal?
Just remember: thereÕs no dignity in slavery. If you want dignity Ð youÕve got to be emancipated.