WHY GO THROUGH THE TORTURE?

Ridiculous! Really, this is ridiculous. If it's that pain­ful to give up smoking, it's just not worth it. And I'm not being sarcastic. I mean it. Most of us have enough to worry us, enough pressures already on us, enough real and immediate knots to unravel about ourselves and our families and our work and our world so that it's just plain foolish to add one more enormous diffi­culty to our days and nights.

But suppose you could really give up cigarettes for the rest of your life without all that pain? Suppose you could find a way not to itch for the next cigarette, not to focus on tobacco and smoke, not to be whipped about emotionally by the incessant sight of smokers and smoking, not to gain extra pound after extra pound. Then it would be a good thing to stop, wouldn't it?

This can happen. It can happen so easily that others may not even notice the change for days. You're about to learn the painless way to break a dangerous and painful habit.

In return, you will have to keep your end of the bar­gain. I will ask you to do three things:

Please do not turn to the end of the book first.