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Coughing, hacking, gasping for breath with everyone griping at him to just be a man and quit! But despite even this pressure and how bad my health was becoming, another attempt at quitting was not even close to being on my radar screen.

Rick replied SO matter-of-factly that the 10% who failed to quit represented those who didn't follow his simple program and that in a couple of hours he could get me to give up smoking for good! He added though that this time, I would quit for good, without major stress and without suffering through weeks or months of painful cravings and withdrawals (that eventually led to my failure before) and *without gaining any extra weight whatsoever.

Ahhh, the seductive power of puffing! A Chance Meeting In 2003, I met a man named Rick Saruna.

Making one of my notoriously off-handed remarks, I commented about my being in the 10% - the stereotypical, weak-minded, incurable addict.

Knowing what I knew then about the horror stories of myself and others who tried to quit smoking, I was quite skeptical of this claim.

At the time, I had been looking for a local practitioner of NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and relaxation therapy to help a relative of mine through a difficult time.

If you want to know the entire truth, Rick was flabbergasted when I called the first time as a few weeks prior he had written my name down to contact me after buying a book at a conference he had attended in New Hampshire - my company was listed in the book's resource section.

So we had 2 reasons to meet.

Wilson RN Well, this was Beneteau - the Smoker, just last year.

I came across Rick and his clinic in my hometown of Windsor, Ontario.

We met a few days later at his clinic and discussed a plan of action for my loved one.

In fact he said I would lose weig....

Sara N.

I noticed that a large part of his practice was devoted to helping people quit smoking and he claimed a 90% success rate.