United Kingdom The Voice of Tobacco

Specifications: What does the Voice of Tobacco say to you? There\'\'s no need to give up; just cutting down will do. How can it be bad for you when it feels so good? Just one cigarette can\'\'t hurt you, now can it? It\'\'s hard not to listen.

Especially when, from the other side of the debate, we smokers have all been lectured by self-righteous prigs who think that (a) we should want to give up and (b) giving up smoking should be easy. Well we don\'\'t and it ain\'\'t. And yet there does come a time when, no matter how much we enjoy smoking, we have to become not smokers.

Richard Craze\'\'s guide gives it to you straight: what it\'\'s really like to give up smoking. The headaches, the sleeplessness, the irritability. And The Voice. He\'\'s been there and his diary reports back from the front line. It may not be pleasant, but it\'\'s honest.

It may or may not help you to give up smoking, but it will certainly get you looking at smoking in a new way. And it will give you something to do with your hands. This is the diary of a dedicated and happy smoker who is now not smoking. Here\'\'s how he did it. Here\'\'s how to do it without the trauma, the withdrawal symptoms, the twitching, the bad temper.

Yeah, right. In your dreams. Author biography Richard Craze is a professional author who writes on a range of subjects. He is many things to many different people - writer, father, husband, lover, forgiving friend - but above all else he is a smoker. Currently he is not smoking but he is still all the other things.