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Benefits of smoking cigarettes?
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Read Allen Carr’s Easy Way. It’s not a great piece of literature, but it’s the best book to help you wrap your head around why you smoke and whether you actually want to.
Can’t recommend it enough.
It took me three tries. Took it back up during tough times. Found some better ways to cope, mostly Stoicism. I've recommended it to at least a dozen others over the years with about 90% success.
I started smoking when I was 15.
A while later, someone gifted that book to me. I barely started it and put it away, and it was lying around the appartement for 2 years. One day I randomly picked it up and finished it that day. Went from ~20 cigarettes a day to 0 overnight. That was like 13 years ago, and I never wanted a cigarette since.
That 90% success rate seems to be the case within my friend group as well :)