Don’t Quit Smoking!

“Dishabitize: Pruning Habits and Addictions with the Attending Theory of Motivation” includes the first draft of the Attending Theory of Motivation, which claims to explain all behavior of higher animals, including humans. This version uses cigarette smoking as a prime example to illustrate how habits can be dissolved (dishabitization), offering a pathway to healing addictions and breaking free from unwanted patterns.

Instead of the usual approach of meeting an addiction by first becoming abstinent, this book sets out the approach of an intermittent abstinence based method.

To ensure that every smoker worldwide is able to afford this ebook, the standard price is set at the price of a pack of cigarettes sold in Thailand.
In addition, readers should be able to decide for themselves how much reading this text is worth to them. Should you decide to buy the book, we will write to you in due course and ask you if the book has given you any value and if you would like to donate a little more than the purchase price.

This version is an unfinished manuscript. Written by an amateur, it must surely have countless weaknesses and errors. As an attempt at a scientific explanation of a phenomenon that has baffled scientists for a hundred years, written by an outsider to academia, I do not expect scientists to take it seriously.

This text is not meant to be discussed in scientific journals, but by people struggling with addictions we are full of hope that it can still provide value and help some people.

Much needs to be improved, rewritten, expanded or shortened before this manuscript can become a book or even be turned into what is called “good science”. Entire concepts such as the “power-modulators” must undergo scrutiny so that they can be improved or even completely replaced by new concepts in the next version.