Review: Helpful in a mundane way.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2014
Smokers often require more than facts and medical talk to quite smoking. Once we decide to go sober, it feels as if the nicotine inside our system weakens our will power, controlling our minds, as if it was the devil speaking into our ears things like - "what the hell is left in my life for enjoyment, if i don't even smoke". Moreover the book's facts say that 85% of people leave it by going cold turkey. Sheer will power needs to work more than anything else. I expected for the book to be more psychologically dealing with the reader, but it provided me things which even a doctor, or advertisements tell you. I've quit smoking twice, hopefully this time it'll be last. I found a method, in which I falsely give myself a challenge to not smoke for a month after which I can smoke again. It takes 2 -3 days to not smoke even a single cig for 24 hours, but i get there eventually. Once 3-4 days goes without smoking, the devil stops talking. But still the one moth challenge continues. This has worked for me. Don't know if it will for the rest.I'm an aquarius and freedom is important for me. I made myself think that smoking is actually making me a slave of itself and corporations. That put the pressure on me, combined with the one month challenge, and involving myself in writing and sketching, whenever i felt like smoking. Know your personality, see what works for your personality and character, and make it work for you.Smoking habbit will most definitely go against any of your natural characteristics, whether its freedom, success, ambitions, sex life, whatever it may be. So pick the one which you cannot do without, and then see how smoking affects us.The book is okay for begginers, but not at all like the title suggests. It fails to address the fact that, dopamine in our brains is the main cause for the addiction. Nicotine effects stay only for 15 minutes. Dopamine causes the craving, and its mostly psychogical, because otherwise you would crave for it even while sleeping, or while watching your favourite movie. Smoking is mostly boredome killer, and like kids get used to videogames and stop playing outdoors, smokers get used to cigarettes and can'r replace it with other activity.Check out this crazy book :Degenerate Diaries