About the Author

I am Jonathan Farley, a software developer from Scotland who stopped smoking at the age of 27 after 15 years. I was never a 'heavy' smoker, but at the same time I have never been able to stop permanently. I stopped for the first time ten years ago and I found it so easy that I have managed to do it ten times since! That's right, every year for the last ten years I have gone through the same routine. After the excess of the Festive period, I would decide that smoking was bad for me and I would simply stop dead (bad choice of words, I know). Then, for three to six months I would not smoke, would not be tempted to smoke and not really miss it.

Then it would start - I would be so confident that I was not hooked any more that I would go out socially and allow myself the treat of a cigarette. In fact, I could have fifteen to twenty cigarettes in a night and still wake up the next day feeling no ill-effects - no craving, no sickness, no cough and I would think that I had hit the jackpot - 'I can smoke socially and not get hooked again'. Then the social events would become more frequent, my smoking would get heavier and heavier and I was still convinced that I had it under control. Then eventually, I would have a bad day at work and decide that I would go outside with the other smokers and have a cigarette - just to calm me down. Then I would smoke more and more until I realised that I was a smoker again.

The truth is that I was a smoker again as soon as I had my first relapse. It managed to get me hooked again year after year because I expected the craving the next day to be as strong as it was the day that I stopped smoking. But since stopping, all of my dependence on cigarettes had left me and all of the nicotine had washed out of my system - I had effectively wiped the slate clean and started again. So because the craving was so slight after that first one, it was unnoticeable. Then, before I knew it, I was addicted as before and would have to go through the whole process again.

This time, however, I decided that I had had enough and a new approach was needed - one that would stop me smoking for good. Out of this idea was born the SmokeWorm plan.

You can get a good idea of how the plan works from reading through the site. If you think it will be of benefit to you or to others, click on the 'Buy The Book' link on the left of the screen

I hope you enjoy your visit, and above all I hope you enjoy stopping smoking.

All the best,

Jonathan.