For some of us, a cigarette is the instrument that trumpets in the beginning of a bright new day. It is part of our habitual pattern of awaking, dressing, having breakfast, glancing at the morning headlines.
For a commuter, stepping off the bus or train or subway and lighting up are coupled actions—a habitual pattern.
When you stop smoking as the result of reading and applying the techniques in this book, you will not miss cigarettes per se—but for the first three days, you’ll have a somewhat “incomplete” feeling. Something will be “missing.” You”ll be glad that it’s missing, and yet its absence will nevertheless be something of which you will be acutely conscious.
Perhaps I can make this a little more understandable. Suppose that for a month you were asked to guard an attaché case containing vital defense secrets.
You had to carry it with you every moment of the day—indeed, it was handcuffed to your left wrist. You felt endangered by its presence, of course, since enemy spies would go to any lengths to secure it.
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