Top Gun Survival Tips

Terrorists, as you will discover, are everywhere: you may not believe it at first, but you will quickly discover it for yourself. During your first couple of weeks as a non-smoker you just cannot escape them. They will be disguised as friends, colleagues, partners and even lovers. Most of the time they will not even be aware of what they are doing; don't blame them, it is not intentional.

They will use their own covert, terrorist tactics, some are even more extreme than we can explain in this booklet, but be ready; anticipation will be your best defense. Their actions may be disguised as something as simple as them doing something that upsets you, or they may let you down at the last minute with regard to an arranged leisure event, leaving you alone, bored and vulnerable. Was it on purpose? Who knows? Why do they repeatedly offer you cigarettes, saying afterwards: "Sorry, I keep forgetting you packed in. I won't do it again." Then they do, a mere twenty minutes later.

Some of the more common tricks they use will include informing you completely out of the blue that they are having a party. They may not have had one in the previous ten years, but now it's an all night affair, complimentary bar and planned to ensure you're the only non-smoker invited. Often they will lie and say it's a birthday or anniversary. A terrorist was recently intercepted planning his wedding day around his so-called best friend's first non-smoking weekend. How selfish is that?!

You will notice that even though you may have gone months without being invited to a major social event, now they will come up on a daily basis. Terrorists disguised as friends will keep phoning and asking you things like: "How is it going?" "What's the craving like?" "Are you having trouble sleeping?" "How much weight have you put on so far?" Others will love telling you that it will never work: they know this because their aunty Rose saw a Hypnotist (not a Hypnotherapist) on Blackpool Pier when on a works coach outing back in the sixties, and it only lasted two days for her.

Mysterious events designed to test you to the limit will occur in the first few weeks - your car will be towed away or scratched, you will lose your mobile phone and fall out with your partner, you will argue with your best friends, and your smoking friends will try every trick in the book to trip you up.

The sad fact is that the terrorists are normally all smokers. Your success is the ultimate threat to them: it is much better for them if you fail, because they won't have to face up to the conclusion that if you can quit then they can too.

Remember the motto of the SAS - "Who dares wins!"

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