This is a book for those who smoke and want to stop and for those who've stopped but need reassurance. I'm the latter. I started and stopped four times and this final time was the last. I'm never going to take the crown from Allan Carr for writing a practical book about quitting smoking so I've written my own, consisting of cold facts, personal memories, home-spun philosophies and hard life experience. I'll make a deal with you: as long as you're reading this book, you won't smoke. I don't mean just as long as you're physically holding the book in your hands and lifting the words from the page with your eyes, even if you read a little, a few pages, then put it down and go off and do something else and then come back to it again. No. As long as there's a relationship between you and the contents of this book, you won't smoke. Is that a deal? Just remember: there's no dignity in slavery. If you want dignity - you've got to be emancipated.