Posted by Joe Weaver on April 16, 2001 at 21:55:37:
I am the author of a soon to be released quit smoking book. Did you know that smoking has the power to kill more people in America than heroine, crack, marijuana, cocaine, alcohol, AIDS, automobile accidents, murder, and fire combined? Out of the four thousand or more chemicals found in tobacco smoke, approximately 200 or more are known carcinogens. The chemicals within the tobacco smoke are poisonous and carcinogenic. Why do people play ignorant to these statistics?
Nic-the Habit is a spiritual approach to quitting smoking without gaining weight. This book is based on a journey through Nepal and Tibet by the author, who regains his spirituality and ends his fifteen-year smoking habit. Joe traveled to Egypt, Nepal, India and Tibet and wrote his first book Nic-the Habit about nicotine addiction and regaining your inner spirit. Joe also worked with his sister, Irael, who has studied hypnotherapy and together produced a hypnotic tape to augment his book, along with a website with chat and bulletin board capabilities for smokers trying to quit. Joe hopes that the government, state and the media will also promote his book and other smoking cessation books and tapes. Smoking has the ability to kill. With all the diet books and health books that has gotten huge media coverage throughout the years, We need to also promote and help smokers kick their habit. Nicotine has be said to be more addictive then heroine, but for some reason, authors of quit-smoking books rarely get enough promotion to let smokers know that there are alternatives to the Patch and Pills that don't get to the root of the problem.
Some of the chemicals mention in the book:
• Acetone (nail polish remover); • Arsenic (rat poison); • Butane (cigarette lighter fluid); • Cadmium (rechargeable batteries); • Carbon Monoxide (car exhaust fumes); • DDT (insecticides); • Hexamine (barbecue lighter); • Hydrogen cyanide (Nazi gas chamber poison); • Lead (paint and alloys); • Naphthalene (mothballs); • Nicotine (insecticide); • Tar (used for all the chemicals within cigarettes that are not gaseous, non-nicotine and non-water),
If Cigarette packs were to include it's ingredients, it would be over 4000 chemicals, such as 1,1-Dimethylhydrazine, 1,3 Butadiene, 1,4-Benzenediol, 1-Aminonapthaline, 1-Carvone, 1-Phenyl-1-Propanol, 2,3-Diethylpyrazine, 2,3-Dimethylpyrazine, 2,6-Dimethoxyphenol, 2,6-Dimethylpyrazine, 2-Aminonaphthalene, 2- Cyclopentanedione, 2-Decenal, 2-Ethyl-1-Hexanol, 2-Ethyl-3-Methylpyrazine, 2-Methylbutyraldehyde, 2-Methylhexanoic Acid, 2-Methylpyrazine, 2- Methylvaleric Acid, 2-Nitropropane, 2-Pentylpyridine, 2-Phenyl-2-Butenal, 3- Aminobiphenyl, 3-Hexenoic, as so forth.
Joe Weaver's soon-to-be-released "Quit Smoking" book, Nic the Habit:Cigarettesmokingkills.com will be available in 1-3 weeks. Joe Weaver was born in New York on March 6, 1964. At the age of ten, he became very interested in philosophy, spirituality and religion. At sixteen, he would visit different Ashrams in Upstate New York, where he practiced Yoga, reflexology, herbology and meditation. Joe Weaver graduated with a degree in Biology at the State University at Stony Brook, where he won achievement awards in biological research, focusing on the brain ischemia. Joe then participated in various research project with the department of Pharmacology at Tulane University in New Orleans, whic was later published in the European Journal of Pharmacology in March 1993.
In 1994, Joe Weaver went to pursue his medical career at the Universität Tübingen in Germany. After a year and a half, he had a change in heart and moved back to the States. After Germany, Joe noticed that he was losing his spirituality and did not like the "new Joe" that he saw-- He was smoking more than three packs of cigarettes a day and eighty pounds overweight. Joe smoked for over 18 years, smoking three packs a day and over 80 pounds overweight when he decided to quit and change his life. His life was falling apart and he decided to take a long vacation to Nepal and Tibet. After his long journey, Joe was finally a nonsmoker and lost over 90 pounds. Joe's book shares some of his lessons learned which prompted him book writting Nic-the Habit.
Joe had quit smoking over ten times in eighteen years. As most smokers know, stressful situations can bring you back to being a slave to Nicotine. The real test was Joe’s first stressful ordeal. His mother had two heart attacks and three strokes within one year, who is to this day is in rehab. Unable to cope with all the new added stress, Joe began to write his book, Nic-the Habit,along the bedside of his mother, who could no longer speak. Smoking a cigarette was the last thing in his mind. The tibet culture tough Joe to be strong and to find the strength within to combat his innermost feelings. A quote from his book " Human are separated from Animals, being that humans don't have to act on their desires. We, as humans can choose to not act on an emotion, desire or need.
Being trained in college as a biologist and research scientist, Joe never dreamed that he would write about spirituality and quitting smoking. This is what makes his book special. Joe Weaver's book has a combination of science, nature and spirituality all combined into one. Joe believes that this book was guided from a higher source. Joe learned in Nepal to cherish each day and live life. Joe’s book describes that in order to quit, smokers must regain back the control of their spirit. Smokers must deprogram their mind-set about smoking and reprogram their mind, body and spirit, so that it will develop a more realistic loathing to nicotine products, instead of the craving and false notions . “You can’t be a non-smoker and still have positive attachments to tobacco." This is not logical. Why do smokers pay tobacco companies to cause them harm? Joe quotes,” You can’t really love yourself and continue to smoke. Smoking is destructive” Joe takes a tough-love approach to help his readers say "No" to nicotine products.
Nic-the Habit readers will kick their habit through finding themselves again through spirituality--Just as, Joe rediscovered himself in the Himalayas. However, just before, Joe was ready to finish and edit his manuscript. Joe broke his leg, while dancing in a nightclub in Bayside, New York. Joe’s ankle was cracked in three places, requiring 4 hours of surgery with Rods, Pins and Plates. Determined to finish the book, three days out of the hospital , Joe submitted his manuscripts to iuniverse.com. Joe is still unable to walk without crushes and will have his second operation in July 2001 to remove the rod in his ankle. Nic-the Habit is about the will, the soul and the spirit to change and to do what seems impossible. This book will give its readers the strength, willpower and the courage needed to be a non-smoker without gaining weight and to never smoke another cancer stick again!
The Chapters of the book Chapter
No More Excuses
Becoming Hooked On an Image
The College Years
Soul Searching
Finding Myself Again
Arriving In Nepal
Our Existence on Earth
The Message
Lessons of Simplicity
Fear and Courage
Free Will
What Exactly Is Nicotine?
Smoking and Nicotine Addiction
Biological Dependence and Emotional Replacement
Constituents of Tobacco Products and its Smoke
Advocates of Smokers
Research and Statistic
Gaining Truth
Why We Smoke
Common Sense
The Casual Smoker
Calming Your Mind through Meditation.
Techniques to Meditate
Be Aware of What You Are Doing
Will You Gain Weight When You Quit Smoking?
Will Power
You Are Blameless of Your Past
Why I Can’t Quit
The Dangers of Smoking
The Withdrawal Symptoms
The Secrets to Quitting Smoking Forever.
Time To Say Goodbye!
Recommendations
About the Author
Joe Weaver has also set up a website with a Chat room, a bulletin board, and hypnotic tapes available to further help victims of Nicotine addiction.
Nic-the Habit will be available in 4 weeks. Please visit my website at
http://cigarettesmokingkills.com to learn more or contact me at quitsmoking@earthlink.net