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How I Quit Smoking (Eventually!)<\/span><\/h1>\n

Maybe my “Stop Smoking Story” will ring true with you?<\/span><\/h2>\n

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How I quit smoking – after many failed attempts<\/strong> – is probably fairly typical. I’m sure at least some of this will strike a chord with you.<\/p>\n

I started smoking as a teenager – probably because I thought it made me look more grown-up (isn’t that why everybody starts?).<\/p>\n

Of course, I knew it was bad for me – but I thought there was plenty of time for me to stop smoking before it did me any real harm<\/strong>. And, I thought, I could easily quit whenever I wanted to!<\/p>\n

I noticed even then that I seemed to have a frog in my throat most of the time – and I coughed quite a lot – but I had moved to an industrial city, so I put it down to that.<\/p>\n

They were beginning to talk about the tar content<\/strong> of different brands of cigarettes. I often wondered what this “tar” was. Why did it have the same name as the stuff road surfaces were made of?<\/p>\n

I found out when I landed a summer job on a tobacco farm in Canada.<\/p>\n

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What I Learned on a Tobacco Farm<\/span><\/h3>\n

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A tobacco plant looks like a glorified rhubarb plant. The leaves are pretty large, and rather rubbery.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

If you work out in the fields all day – brushing against the leaves – you get a mass of sticky black stuff<\/strong> gathering on the hairs of your arms.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day you can pick it off bit by bit and form it into a ball – about the size of a golf ball.<\/p>\n

Believe me, it’s not called tar for nothing!<\/strong> It looks exactly like the stuff they put down on the roads! Thick, black, sticky, gooey and horrible!<\/p>\n

And that was what I was coating my lungs with every time I lit a cigarette!<\/p>\n

Now, I’d like to be able to say that I never smoked again after that. Sadly, I carried on smoking – on and off – for about another ten years. On two occasions I stopped for a whole year – and on one occasion for two years. And countless times for a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

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Why Not Quit Smoking For Good?<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Now that is the<\/em> question. Not even the vivid image of thick, black tar – which I had seen with my own eyes – was enough. At least, not for a long time.<\/p>\n

It all comes down to the subconscious mind<\/strong>. If – deep down – you still see yourself as a smoker, then sooner or later you will go back to the smoking habit.<\/p>\n

The only way to quit smoking for good is to re-programme the subconscious mind. That took me years of trial and error. And that’s why I compiled The Stop Smoking Programme<\/span><\/strong> … so you can do in 3 weeks what took me ten years!<\/p>\n

Once you’ve decided that you really want to quit smoking, why not do yourself a huge favour and take action now? There’s no benefit in waiting ten years!<\/p>\n

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Click Here To Quit Smoking in 3 Weeks or Less!<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Not ready yet? That’s perfectly understandable; why not just leave your name and email address (if you haven’t already done so) – and I’ll send you a gentle reminder every so often?<\/p>\n

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