Each review is a small dialogue: a question to a person about the method and his answer a few days or weeks, sometimes months after quitting smoking.
“Yeah. This time, I think it worked. I’ve been smoke-free for two months and three days. How did it work? I clearly followed the instructions, did everything that is written in the method Getting rid of smoking without willful effort, wrote out the first week, then it became easier to stop writing. I rarely remember now. I just don’t smoke, that’s all.”
“I would advise my friend not to start smoking. But if you’re already addicted and you can’t quit. Tried and failed, like me, in that case I would follow the HowNotSmoke method. It’s «A way to quit smoking without willpower.» It’s really helpful.”
“I rate the Method of getting rid of tobacco smoking without willpower very positively. Very high. Because you cannot rely on willpower. For example, I have no willpower at all. I am a weak-willed young lady. This calculation on willpower is very often, in most cases, wrong and fails. And to quit the second time and each subsequent time with each time harder and harder. A subconscious attitude is formed: «I can’t quit smoking». The HowNotSmoke method does not rely on willpower, it involves effective psychological techniques to make this addiction, in principle, any harmful addiction would cease to bother a person.”
“After I learned the «Quit Smoking Without Willing Effort» method, it was easy. The only difficulty there was to sit down to write. In the beginning I couldn’t think how to write it? Why? Why? What is this technique? It was incomprehensible. But as soon as I started writing, I realized. It works. You just don’t have to reason and analyze. You just do it. Just do it, as the Americans say.”
“Historical. It’s all in the past. I’ve stopped coughing now, too. I coughed up and spit out the last crap about three months ago. Soon I won’t smoke for six months. My respect to the HowNotSmoke method for the result. It really helped me and changed everything.”
“I feel great. Like I’m alive.”
“I’ve quit smoking many times. It didn’t work. The last time about three years ago, I had enough for 3 days and couldn’t stand it, so I smoked again. And now I quit and I must say it’s quite easy. Now I quit using the HowNotSmoke method. I was discharged. I didn’t count on willpower anymore. I bought rosary beads to keep my hands busy, just like it says. And now I haven’t smoked for four months. I can’t say I’ve quit yet, it will be possible to say that only in a year, but I don’t smoke.”
“I haven’t smoked in a month. No, it’s not hard to hold on at all. I don’t feel like I’m «holding on.» It’s not like my jaw is clenched, my face is not tense, relaxed. I feel fine. I’ve stopped drinking because I don’t want to smoke. If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t even remember cigarettes or «smoking».”
“All together. Clothes smell, hands smell, feeling worse, coughing… And so on. I don’t want to talk about the rest of it.”
“Overcome the addiction. It seems like nothing hurts, doesn’t cut, doesn’t sting, but you are drawn to a cigarette and can’t stop. No one forces you, no one stands with a gun to your head, but you can’t find a place for yourself, freak out, freak out, go crazy. Some kind of irresistible craving. And no Band-Aids, no pills, nothing will help. The only way that can be applied here is to somehow reduce the emotional intensity, this emotional negative charge. And I don’t know of a better way than the HowNotSmoke method. It’s «A Method of Getting rid of Smoking without Willful Effort,» it’s a prescribing method. It really relieves the tension and that negative charge. It’s very helpful.”
“No. I hadn’t heard. My husband told me. He’s a non-smoker. I got into it. First one at a time, on holidays, then in the evenings, with a cup of coffee… And now I smoke. But now I don’t smoke anymore. That’s enough.”
“What I liked about the HowNotSmoke method «The way to get rid of smoking without willpower» is that it really works without willpower. That is, you quit smoking not on willpower, but using certain techniques, a certain system of techniques that reduce this emotional tension, psychological discomfort in the absence of cigarettes. So my thanks to the HowNotSmoke method. And I didn’t encounter any difficulties. I wish there was a free course. Although there’s also a question. The fact that you paid for the Course is another incentive to quit.”
“Why? No. Of course not. Never. I’ve built such a «wall» in my head over time and I keep making it higher and higher. It’s definitely never now.”
“I used to rely on my toughness, willpower, stamina, strength of character. I’d take a packet, crumple it up, toss it in the trash. I’d hold on for a while. Not for long. Then again. And the last time I realized that if I repeated the same thing, the result would be the same. There’s no point. So I talked to a comrade who quit smoking using the HowNotSmoke method. He told me how he was discharged, how he struggled and overcame his fears internally, and I did the same. I bought this method and quit. It’s very simple.”
“I can say that this is a non-trivial way. That is, not obvious, not ordinary, not lying on the surface. After all, as usual, the problem seems to be a physiological one, originating from chemical, toxic effects, so it seems to be necessary to fight it chemically, i.e. with pills, plasters, and so on. It turns out not. The most important thing is to defeat addiction, and not the chemical effects of nicotine. That is, it is necessary to offer something that would help a person to cope with this addiction. And this is psychology. And this method helps to overcome emotional and mental discomfort, tension, nervousness, irritation caused by the absence of cigarettes.”
“This means that the method assumes that a person does not have any unusual willpower necessary and sufficient to overcome nicotine addiction and quit smoking. That is, this method assumes that we are dealing with an ordinary person. Not with a man — Rock, not with a man — Flint, or iron-concrete. And before us is the most ordinary, weak-willed, characterless man, a man who is a wimp, a sissy. But we love this person and do not want him to get smoked and die of lung cancer. And this method helps such an ordinary person to quit smoking and find a calm indifferent attitude to cigarettes.”
“The same as to poisons, some numerous incomprehensible pills that are sold in pharmacies and which are lethal in large quantities. But I will never buy them, despite the fact that there are always people standing in the pharmacy, constantly buying pills, drops, and infusions. I am deeply indifferent to these people, to these pills… And also to cigarettes. They are like poisons. I won’t consume poisons. I don’t need it.”
“In all seriousness, I’ve had two of these thorough ones. And both times I failed. I decided that if I did it the same way the third time, I would fall off too. So I did what the smart people told me to do. I decided to use the «Quit Smoking Without Willing Effort Method.»”
“The HowNotSmoke method helped me. Which is «…without willpower.» I don’t want to rely on willpower in such an important matter. No matter what. There are all kinds of situations in life. Not because I am weak or willless, but because there are enough stresses in life and a person is still a human being, not a programmed machine.”
“Yeah, never again. Just every day that I don’t smoke, and I haven’t smoked for 79 days now, I am building a higher and thicker wall in my mind against smoking. This is what is written in this wonderful and effective method of getting rid of smoking without willpower, which I follow to this day.”
“О! There are so many benefits. It’s health, it’s good mood, it’s gone that disgusting odor from my hair, clothes, hands, my face has changed, it’s better, fresher, I have pride in myself that I could do it. I have time to do more things in a day, it’s like I have more time, but I do have more time. People I know are jealous. Although my friends say that nothing has changed in me… But I think — let them slander me.”
“Yeah, I don’t smoke now. And this is the longest time I haven’t smoked. It’s been about a year. I feel like there are more nice, good people around. I guess I’m just in a good mood, huh?”
“I don’t know. I don’t want to smoke. I’m cool with cigarettes now. It’s been four months since I stopped smoking. I can’t imagine what would have to happen for me to take that shit in my mouth again.”
“No. I can talk about smoking in peace. I tell everyone who is interested how I quit smoking, what it is the way it is — without willful efforts. It’s not stressful. Just like it doesn’t bother me to talk about alcohol, after which I don’t run to the store for a bottle or drugs, which I’ve never even tried and certainly won’t.”
“Firstly, I got rid of my addiction, as a result my brain was freed from constant thoughts about smoking, and secondly, of course, it is health. The body will be cleared in time, it has already been partially cleared — 5 months have passed. And as a result, my self-perception has changed, it is pride in myself and confidence in myself, in my strength. I think this is the most important thing.”
“It cannot be valued in money. Money cannot act as an equivalent here. How much is a person’s health worth? How much is an extra 5 or 10 years of life worth? There is no such money.”
“Yeah, I used to be afraid. That’s part of the reason I started smoking. One of the reasons for this was the claim that a small portion of poison is injected into the body, as a result of which the body will not be able to «grow wider», i.e. get fat. But, as it turns out, this is all wrong. And plus to the program «How to quit smoking without willful efforts» I additionally received the Course «How not to get fat when you quit smoking». This, as I understood, is a special program that helps to build a system of healthy eating. And I do everything as it says, and as a result my weight has even decreased a little.”
“Calm. Indifferent. I just know I don’t smoke. And even at different parties, when many people around me smoke and we all drink, I’m not drawn to it. There’s a kind of aversion that’s formed.”
“In one day. I mean, right away. The desire to smoke remained for some time. But you should quit only at once, as the HowNotSmoke method of quitting smoking without willpower teaches. And it does not depend on gender, nationality, smoking experience, age and other peculiarities.”
“Of course, a method without willpower. I couldn’t have done it without it. Without it, it would have been the same as before. On willpower I would have lasted 2-3 days, and then I would have snapped. What is valuable there is that it, this method, relieves the tension and the psychological discomfort when you gave up cigarettes. Because of which everyone breaks down and starts smoking again.”
“It’s been six months now. Now, of course, I don’t feel any nervousness or irritation. But at the very first time, this nervousness, nervousness, irritation was bought, removed with the help of the HowNotSmoke method «Quit smoking without willful efforts», with the help of writing out. I wrote letters. You’ll say, «That’s silly.» Yeah, I thought the same thing at first. But the amazing thing is. It helps. All this nervousness, irritation, emotional tension through fine motor skills comes out through lines on paper and you get bored with the topic «Smoking», you get tired of these thoughts. There comes indifference to «smoking», «cigarettes», «tobacco», «nicotine»… Yes, it is a non-trivial, unusual approach, but nevertheless it works.”
“Of course. It’s like I’m reborn. I’m very happy. I’m very happy. I feel on top! Even when I’m not in a good mood, when I’m upset about something, I think: «But at least I quit smoking! And my mood immediately improves.»”
“7 months. Yeah, I love it. And my health is better, my cough is gone, I have more time, I can do everything now. My mood is better. I’m happier to be alive. I’m very, very, very, very happy.”
“My health has gotten noticeably worse. I look worse. Some kind of painful fatigue appeared. Everything started to annoy me: People around me, work… My body demanded changes. I decided that if I quit smoking, the world around me and me in it would improve.”
“Three reasons: Health, appearance and odor. I started to feel bad, I started to cough. I started to look worse. And there was an odor from clothes, hair, in the apartment that could not be cleaned, could not be destroyed. All this did not suit me categorically.”
“Life has changed a lot. I was an addict and now I am independent. I overcame a harmful addiction. I’m a hero. I feel like a healthy, young, energetic girl. I feel happy and joyful inside.”
“No. God forbid. That’s all behind me, in that life. I’m new now, I have different desires.”
“I quit a long time ago, about a year ago. That’s why I don’t have any stupid thoughts. Now when something reminds me about cigarettes, about smoking, like you did with your question, I remember how long I haven’t smoked and the desire to destroy this mental wall, this barrier that prohibits smoking disappears at once.”
“I work at work. At home, doing chores or reading. In general, it’s nothing unusual or original. But there is more time in the day. I noticed it at once due to the fact that the breaks for «smoking» disappeared and due to the fact that I began to sleep less, less hours for sleeping. I started getting up earlier by about an hour.”
“It was quite difficult, and if it hadn’t been for «A Way to Stop Smoking Without Willing Effort», I probably wouldn’t have made it. The thing is that the first days, of course, there is tension about the absence of cigarettes. And it is necessary to remove it somehow, to level it. And this method of «writing it out» is extremely helpful in this case. Although at first glance it seems unnatural, unrealistic, unusual.”
“I’m going to write as it says in «A course for quitting smoking without willpower». It helped me before and it helps me now. But the thing is that every day I wanted to smoke less and less. And after about a month I didn’t want to smoke at all. And now it has been 3 months, so the desire to smoke has not arisen for a long time and I think it will not arise.”
“First, I’m gonna figure out why it happened. What is the reason why I snapped. Then I will decide how to prevent it from happening again, i.e. what I need to do to prevent it from happening again. And then I will quit again and start a new countdown of how long I have not smoked. I still won’t smoke. It’s like in life, you can fall down, but you still have to get up and keep going. You have to get up.”
“Relationships have improved. People around me are surprised and ask: «Why are you so kind and cheerful? And I explain to them that I used to be angry because I smoked. But now I have quit and everything is fine.”
“1. You have to quit right away. Gradualism only spoils it. 2. Each next attempt to quit smoking will be given harder and more difficult by an order of magnitude, so it is better not to experiment with willpower, hoping for your strong character, it may not be hard enough, and use the help of specialists. 3.If suddenly you snapped and smoked a cigarette, — do not torment yourself and do not blame, find out the reasons and again quit. 4.Analyze in advance all possible triggers, where you can snap and come up with an antidote or avoid such situations. 5.Think of something to do with your hands when you don’t have cigarettes. 6.Figure out how you will eliminate that excessive nervousness, irritability, emotional tension that you will have in the first time (food is excluded — because in this way you will quickly gain weight). The HowNotSmoke method — Getting rid of smoking without willful efforts advises an effective technique — Writing it out. You can use it. Or perhaps you can come up with something of your own.”
“Oh, yeah! Thanks to the HowNotSmoke method, I probably couldn’t have done it on my own. Because the first time — the first week, week and a half I was broken without cigarettes, and if it wasn’t for this method of prescribing, I don’t know if I would have been able to quit or not.”
“Sometimes a lot. Depends on the situation. How long you’ve smoked, what kind of psyche you have, how many times you’ve tried to quit before. I did not dare to experiment with willpower. The «Quitting Smoking Without Willpower» method helped me. I recommend it.”
“I think it’s important for women to realize that it’s a hundred times harder for a woman to quit smoking than it is for a man. Because we are different. That is why it is better for a woman not to start smoking, not to take that first cigarette in her hands, and if she has already taken it, not to turn it into a system. If it is too late and you are already smoking, you should quit immediately and it is better to use the HowNotSmoke method «Getting rid of smoking without willpower», and not rely on your willpower and «strong girlish» character.”
“Since my husband hasn’t smoked, things have gotten better with this case. I think he’s grown to love me more. And such a love supplement is probably better than cigarettes.”
“I send them away. Politely, of course.”
“Of course forever. I realized what the «high» of smoking is. It’s not really a high. Sex is a high, flying in a balloon is a high, scuba diving is a high, skiing is a high, playing with a child is a high, doing something you like is a high. I could go on and on. But smoking is definitely not a high, it is a habit from which people get sick and die, a harmful, nasty addiction. So why? Don’t.”
“No, I don’t. I ask them not to smoke or to get out. And I certainly won’t stand in smoking areas myself.”
“I believe that the most valuable thing about this method is that it allows you to relieve the emotional tension, irritation, nervousness that arise, in the first time when you quit smoking.”
“Because I didn’t know or understand how to quit. I put up with it, I put up with it, and I couldn’t take it.”
“He does. But that, of course, is secondary. It’s not the main thing at all. Counting the cost of packs of cigarettes, then multiplying by the number of days, then by the number of years, increasing by compound interest — this is from the section «jokes about finances».”
“I certainly couldn’t. I tried more than once. And it didn’t work. I think it’s important to have a specialist around. Because not everyone can do it just by sheer willpower. There are different situations and circumstances in life, which often put a person out of balance. And the first time will not work, the second time — much more difficult. I did not succeed the first time. So now I have used this method, and I have not regretted it.”
“Of course not. Absolutely not. Any one cigarette, one puff makes you a smoker again. And you have to quit again, and start counting again, etc.”
“No. I already know what it is. How disgusting it is and not at all a pleasure or enjoyment. I know what kind of trouble you will have as a result of smoking, so I will not smoke in this life or any other.”
“Oh! That’s awful! It’s unbearably disgusting. They — the smokers themselves don’t feel, don’t understand. They get offended. Just like I was when I smoked. Now I understand. My husband still smokes. But we’re working on it.)”
“Yeah. It’s a well-known rule that when you quit smoking you can’t have alcohol, it’s highly undesirable. At least for the first month.”
“You can’t be in smoking areas. They don’t smoke everywhere. There’s no smoking in the living room. You don’t smoke where people eat. And so on. And if someone smokes in front of you, ask them not to smoke, because you don’t smoke. This must be articulated — clearly and unambiguously. But if there is one room and everyone is in it, and everyone smokes, it is better not to come there, and if you do, you should leave immediately.”
“Firstly, feelings of gratitude to those who thought up and offered such a wonderful way of getting rid of smoking, which does not require any willful effort on our part. It has helped me a lot. And secondly and thirdly and fourthly it is joy, lightness, pride in myself that I quit. And I am now mostly, almost always in a good mood.”
“Yeah. My wife’s been very supportive. She doesn’t smoke. She really wanted me to quit smoking. And now that I’ve quit, she seems happier than I am.”
“On average, I smoked a pack a day. I think it is a very strong addiction. I tried to quit more than once. It didn’t work. I lasted about two months once. And then at a party, a friend suggested I try a pipe with Dutch flavored tobacco. So I tried it. A week later we met again, and I tried it again, and after another week I bought cigarettes and smoked 10-15 cigarettes a day again. So now I am a shot in the arm and I can’t be turned away from the true path.”
“Now that I’ve quit smoking, I think I’ll live forever. Or at least until I get bored.”
“Huge value. Invaluable. And in terms of health and mental, psychological state, and in terms of self-esteem and the attitude of others. Everything, everywhere you look, is on the plus side.”
“No, no, no, no, no. Of course not. It’s a different way— non-medicated, not hypnosis. It’s psychological, too, though.”
“No, of course not. They know that cigarettes are poison and shit. We’re reasonable people and kids are reasonable. And reasonable people don’t poison themselves or take shit in their mouths.”
“People are to blame themselves — they know perfectly well that it is a bad habit, addiction, that diseases are caused by it, etc., but they don’t want to try it. Okay, we tried it, don’t take a second cigarette, you’ve already tried it. So no, we take the next one, then another and another, and now we’re already addicted. Parents are to blame, they don’t explain to the little ones that cigarettes are not necessary, that it’s like poison. What to do? Quit smoking. What else can be done. Tell them, show them by example. To give this skill of getting rid of smoking, this method without willpower, which does not depend on the personal qualities of a person, on his character, willpower, etc.”
“This method does not rely on a person’s willpower. You can have no character at all, no willpower, but using this method you will still quit smoking. It’s a unique thing. That is its strength, its uniqueness. And this determines the effectiveness of this method.”
“Of course, it’s better to be free. But, on the other hand, then it will be seen as a freebie, as a freebie. And this will harm the cause of quitting smoking. There will be no incentive to use the invested budget, because the invested budget will not exist.”
“I would talk to him and explain to him. We have contact with him, so I would try to explain to him that he is getting into a trap from which it will be very difficult to get out, that it is extremely difficult to get rid of this evil, harmful habit. I would tell him what a health hazard smoking is. Yes, I realize that all this he heard, but the result depends on how much soul, energy, emotion you put into this conversation. I would tell him how to quit smoking, including the HowNotSmoke method — «Getting rid of smoking without willpower». In short, I’d talk to him. Talked to him over and over again. As long as it took.”
“It was in high school, in the backyard with the guys. I don’t remember who gave it to me, but I tried it. I didn’t say no. I mean, it was in good faith, a friendly way, a sign of respect.)”
“Just right away, no «gradually.» And the method of «Quitting Smoking Without Willing Effort» says that only at once.”
“No. I don’t. I don’t usually do well with women like that. My face crinkles, they notice it, even though I try to hide it, and they get hysterical.”
“If you put two identical people next to each other, one of them smokes and the other doesn’t, I’ll choose the one who doesn’t smoke. But in life, it’s usually the other way around.”
“I don’t know. Probably because no one died in front of my eyes after smoking a cigarette and I calmed myself down, explained to myself that this harm was not harm at all, but just a trifle. And I wasn’t going to smoke a pack a day, so — a new impression, once….”
“Nothing got in the way. I quit. Only then I’d relapse and start smoking again. I guess I didn’t have enough willpower.”
“The power of habit. The great, mighty, invincible power of bad habit. And no one and nothing can defeat it. Of course, except for the HowNotSmoke system and its wonderful method of getting rid of smoking without willpower)))))”
“Yeah, sure. I think all girls are afraid of getting fat when they quit smoking. I was afraid of that, too.”
“As well as simple cigarettes. I don’t separate the two. Both are bad habits. There’s nicotine in both, it’s addictive. So, thank you, I’ll abstain.”
“Yes, I convinced myself that one cigarette wouldn’t do any harm. But I go to the gym, swim in the pool… Of course, smoking is not good. But 7-10 cigarettes a day won’t do any harm. There are no perfect people, so let there be a little flaw in me.”
“My health started to deteriorate. Shortness of breath, coughing. I can’t run, I’m obese, my face is gray, everything hurts inside. I realized that I had to pull myself together and start working on myself. Well, the first thing is, of course, to stop smoking and drinking. Then exercise, dousing, vitamins and so on”
“If he hadn’t died, I think he would have gotten very sick. A wreck. I can’t work properly, I can’t do sports and physical training, my mood is at 0, I have no sex and I am completely dissatisfied with everything and everyone.”
“1.At work, you are working, working, working and suddenly someone says: «Let’s go smoke!». It’s like a melody, like an invitation to a holiday, to rest, to bliss. How can you not go and smoke? 2. After lunch, dinner. The craving is so strong that it is impossible to resist. 3. at parties, in clubs, when you drink. It is also very difficult to refuse a cigarette.”
“Practically none. At first there was a little surprise, people asked why, why, and how? But now everyone knows I don’t smoke. No one bothers me, no one offers. Everything is normal.”
“No. Now I know how the digestive system works, how certain foods are digested, how deposits accumulate in the body, I know how to eat right and eat right. This is «Principles and techniques of rational nutrition», it was together with the Course «Getting rid of smoking without willpower». So there are no worries or fears.”
“A man — a criminal, condemned to death, is chained to a large chair. Arms and legs are fastened to the chair with straps, and the head is fixed. A mask is placed on the face with a tube leading to a canister of poison. The chair with the chained man-criminal stands in the hall where the audience of 100 people has gathered. These are friends, relatives, close acquaintances of the convict. At a special signal of a red lamp on the ceiling and a sharp threefold sound, the poison is started. From the audience: That’s right. That’s what he should do. It’s about time. Come on, come on, come on. Get him. He wouldn’t listen to me when I told him to….”
“Gradually. I would start with visual agitation, expansion of various kinds of assistance services and strengthening of administrative responsibility. And then I would gradually introduce criminal liability for those who do not understand and in 5 years I would start shooting especially harmful or unintelligent people.”
“Yes, all of them, without exception. But all in different ways. Someone frankly says that I am good for me and that she herself would like to quit, and someone constantly tempts me to smoke, offering me a cigarette, in fact, I know that she is eaten up with black envy.”