Good question, how come eight out of ten smokers quit just from reading my book, “Steve, A Father’s Diary: The Ultimate Stop Smoking Book.”
A leading TV ad for stop smoking pills tells you that the side effect of taking their pills are constipation, being sick to your stomach, gas, and vomiting for the 12 weeks that you need to take their pills. That’s 3 months of throwing up and, after three months, your chances of stopping smoking are only four out of ten. On the other hand, the directions for my book are: you spend one evening reading my book, you quit smoking. The side effects are: you live longer. The success rate is eight out of ten.
So why do they quit? Because my book gives them the motivation to quit. Readers learn what it is truly like to suffer from lung cancer like no other book has presented it. You see, lung cancer is not a sickness like a heart attack, where you either live through it or die on the spot. Lung cancer from smoking cigarettes takes a long time to kill you. Not weeks, nor months, but complete seasons. And the pain is excrutiating. My son Steve went into the hospital on July 19, 2004 after coughing up blood on the street. I was there beside him in the hospital for 20 days waiting for him to wake from the ‘coma’ he was in. He then went through chemo, radiation, and finally had lung surgery before he was regarded as cancer free. I was there for the next year to play golf with him two, three times a week, waiting for the inevitable. I was with him when the cancer came back. The last six months of his life were brutal. I was also there holding him when he died on February 22, 2007, two and a half years after he coughed up blood.
After I buried my son Steve, I went through hell reliving all that he went through, just so I could write it all down on paper for others to read, understand, believe, and not go through the same torture themselves. The result is something so overwhelming that smokers tell me after reading it: “Thank you for saving my life,” and non-smokers tell me: “Anybody who reads this book and continues to smoke wants to die.”
So to answer the question: “Why do people stop smoking just by reading your book when they haven’t quit after trying so many other methods?” It’s because they decide that they would rather live without smoking than die like Steve. Also, they decide right then and there, they don’t need to take pills for 12 weeks.
The key words are THEY DECIDE.
Gabriel Roy, Author