SMOKING CURE
A.A. Technique Commended “I am not an alcoholic; but I was a nicotinic, and I found that the Alcoholics Anonymous programme worked for me also,” Sir John Walsh, Dean of the Otago Dental School, told members of the Workers’ Educational Association in Christchurch on Saturday evening. “I had been a heavy smoker for 25 years, and after trying for five years to control my smoking I was forced to admit that I was a nicotinic—that I could not control my smoking. That was eight years ago, and I have not smoked since.
“One of my friends on the committee of the National Society on Alcoholism said to me one day, ‘John, I notice that you have not been smoking lately. How do you do it?’ I knew that he was a heavy smoker and had been trying to give it up, so I looked him straight in the eye and said: ‘I applied the A.A. programme.’
“He gave me a very dirty look, but I never saw him smoke again."
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30575, 19 October 1964, Page 12
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