Ready-to-Quit was started by one man as a way of reaching as many people as he could about the horrors of smoking cigarettes.

That man had watched his grandparents and then his own mother succumb to amputations, emphysemia and finally lung cancers caused by their addiction to smoking.

 "As I watched people I loved, die slow painful and early deaths I carried right on puffing my own cigarettes as if in some way I would be spared the same fate."

There is nothing more wretched than watching people die other than watching people die early, knowing it was completely avoidable. So wretched perhaps to the smoker that the only way to navigate the thoughts and feelings is either to deny them, avoid at all costs making the connections, not work too hard on imagining being in a similar position.

Not until many years later; 20 years on did he truly wake up to the fact:


"You can only only smoke if you continue to deny what it is doing to you!"

Only when we are able to face the enormous truth about the damage cigarettes do to us can their hold on our lives eventually begin to recede...

 As we know it's simple, but rarely easy. Somehow all sorts of truths about my smoking had been hidden from my view; obscured by my irrational fears. Fears that somehow my life would be diminished by not smoking; that giving up would be unbearable.


During that twenty plus years since my mother died I battled to stop smoking. I trained as a counsellor, took more than a personal interest in addictions and listened to hundreds of people as they tried make sense of their lives and things that they did.

Also over that time I went in frequent pursuit of the glorious promise of 'golden moments'. I sometimes seem to spend as much cash on trying to cure my addiction as I did feeding it.


I went from one place to another. Hypnosis, emdr, NLP and dare I say it, Allen Carr's Easyway were some of the things I visited on more than one occasion. 
Not that they were terrible in and of themselves, indeed I learned a great deal which helped me on my way. However, what they also showed me was what was missing!

"Through my many visits to different places, I learned a great deal. Some of which has proved to be very useful, and some less so. But it is these experiences that led me to formulate the Ready-to-Quit approach!"

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