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Quitting Smoking For Dummies

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To successfully stop smoking you need to do 2 things: beat your addiction to nicotine and break your smoking habits. (quitting smoking is about skills not willpower - if you had willpower, would you be smoking?). Quitting Smoking for Dummies shows you how to do both. Brizer reviews the medicines out there that can help you quit, so you can select what is best for you. He then goes through how to break your smoking habit, how to select a support group if you need one, and how to stay clean (prevent the relapse). The book is well written, engaging, and the clever/witty in the usual Dummies way. The book is comprehensive -- now this is a requirement I guess for a mainstream/book-for-everyone, but it is too long for the average smoker? For example, are you pregnant? Do you chew? Etc. If not, don't read those sections. I would recommend reading over the Table of Contents and finding the information you need to help you quit. In short, this book is well written, correct, and comprehensive information. Good luck.

This book saved my life. Yeah that was a bit of a dramatic statement but it did. I was a chain-smoker, I smoked close to two packs a day since I was 14 years old. I was addicted since the first time I inhaled. I used this book along with Wellbutrin. When I would get cravings, I'd go back to reading the book.

I do want to warn people who are quitting smoking that you may unleash a depression that you didn't know you had. Smoking cigarettes is a sort of anti-depressant (It's been proven) and I had serious depression when I quit. I was determined not to go back so I went into counseling, started eating better and stayed on the Wellbutrin for a year (it's also an anti depressant). I also started journaling. The thing is that I could have easily gone back to smoking but that would just mean I wasn't facing my problems. Since I've stopped my chronic bronchitis is gone, my allergies are less severe, I have more energy and no, I did not gain any weight (actually lost some while taking Wellbutrin).

This was just my experience. Everyone is different and you may not even experience depression. It will take effort and you need to be prepared and ready. I read the book for a few months before I actually made an attempt to stop.

Good luck. :)

i DON'T KNOW IF THE TIME WAS RIGHT, IF IT WAS DIVINE INTERVENTION, OR IF IT WAS THE BOOK, BUT I AM ONLY HALF-WAY THROUGH AND HAVE NOT HAD A CIGARETTE IN OVER FOUR WEEKS. I NEVER THOUGHT I COULD QUIT, BUT I APPARENTLY HAVE AND WITH INCREDIBLE EASE. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 stars is not for the book but for the seller. The book was purchased merely for research. There was a miscommunication somewhere between Amazon and the seller but the seller corrected the problem beyond my expectations. Would not only purchase from this seller again but would seek out this seller to purchase from in the future.