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“Quit Smoking, Why and How” by Dr. Surinder K Jindal is a useful book to read
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No, it’s a not a book advising people to quit smoking by highlighting the dangers of tobacco through unpalatable diagrams and sad faces. In fact, “Quit Smoking, Why and How” published by Delhi-based Vitasta Publishing Private Limit
ed and penned by Dr. Surinder K. Jindal, is interesting because of its conversational writing style.
A 220-page book that hit the stands recently, it is an honest attempt to help chain smokers quit smoking. Its 24 chapters written in simple style facilitate quick reading. Says Jindal, a professor and chief of the department of pulmonary medicine at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, “I wrote this book in two years intermittently”. The inspiring factors were his patients who would ask him for help to quit smoking and an article he read on how Hollywood actors, sportspersons and ministers, quit smoking. Stressing the ‘Cold-Turkey’ method of quitting that means, the determination to quit abruptly, once and for all, he says, “International studies have proved that this works best.”
FAQs
In FAQs a reader finds addressed issues such as “I am smoking for 20 years and have no health problems”, or “I take only two to three cigarettes, so why should I quit?” or “I am afraid of withdrawal symptoms, I cannot do away with that ‘just one’ urge”, etc. Among the suggestions Jindal gives is to make a list of ‘why should I stop smoking’. His reasoning is enough to make one hate tobacco. For instance, it contains nicotine that is used in sprays to kill bugs, ammonia which is a toilet cleaner, arsenic that is a rat poison, etc. He also points out the odiousness of stained teeth and bad breath. The book succeeds in proving that smoking is completely avoidable.
RANA SIDDIQUI
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