the richest man in atherstone

Long time readers of my journal will know that a while ago I decided to stop smoking and failed miserably. Well, the time has come for me to try again and this time I'm determined to kick the habit.

I'll be quitting in a week or two after I've read the book 'Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking', which is currently on order from Amazon. Allen Carr is supposed to have a cast-iron approach to quitting which is endorsed by many prominent celebrities including Sir Richard Branson and Sir Anthony Hopkins. Additionally, he claims that when I stop smoking, I will have no withdrawal symptoms and will never want to touch a ciggy again. His technique relies more on the psychological reasons (fear of quitting) rather than willpower or NRT.

I hope his claims are true because smoking costs me, on average, £250 every month. I must be mad to keep doing it! Should (I mean, when) I become clean I plan on using some of this money to accelerate my wealth accumulation. I currently save 10% of my salary, however without the cost of cigarettes I want to bump this up to 15%. The rest will be used to reward myself and my family for finally quitting.

I'll keep this website updated with my progress and I expect I'll include a book review at some point as well.