Killing It

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’m never going to take the crown from Allan Carr who has written one of the best ‘quit smoking’ self-help books the modern world has ever seen, so I wrote this book to bolster my resolve and hopefully help others. Consisting of some cold facts, some home-spun philosophies and some hard life experience, ‘Killing It’ meanders through time and the history of my promising but ultimately disappointing attempts to understand and fill the void, a void often stuffed with substance-abuse of one kind or another as I struggled to make sense of it all. I’ve decorated my book with oblique ways of looking at the associated smoker’s paraphernalia, good and bad role models, the ‘gateway’ hypothesis, various notions around health as well as slavery/freedom viewpoints and interwoven references as a way of giving context to the social, economic, emotional, psychological, cultural or environmental states that shape negative choices and poor personal behaviour.