Catherine B. Rowlett, TX Catherine, a forty-nine year old accomplished author and mother of two, was losing her health, her happiness, and herself to nicotine addiction. Her problems started forty-two years ago when her father began verbally abusing her. When Catherine expressed her unhappiness with her father’s hurtful behavior to her mother, she was rebuked and accused of being sensitive. In addition to her father’s dysfunctional behavior, her mother was overtaken by severe depression and was later diagnosed with schizophrenia. Catherine was consumed by a world of dysfunctional behavior that continued for much of her life-even after her mother passed away. This dysfunctional behavior dealt a severe, crippling blow to her self-esteem and created her anxiety, fears, insecurities, and her ability to trust the flow of life. My happiness and health were disintegrating before my eyes, and I had no idea how to fix it. I tried several smoking cessation programs, but after each one, I felt more hopeless about the prospects of a happy, healthy smoke free lifestyle. I found it difficult to believe that trading one psychoactive substance for another was the answer since I soon discovered that I was just as dependent on the patches, gum and chantix as I was smoking a cigarette! I always knew in my heart that there had to be more to the puzzle than these programs professed to. So, I kept searching for answers while I continued to struggle with smoking. I knew that my nicotine addiction was undermining my health, but I just couldn’t seem to stop. When I found the How to Quit Smoking in 60 Days E-System on the web, I was immediately intrigued by David’s concept because it seemed to address the root of the problem rather than substitute one substance for another. He gave me the missing… Read more…