The usual reasons for stopping those habits might have been the fear of killing myself or to show everybody my strength of character or noble thoughts of my family and the effect of my actions on them. Those are good reasons to quit bad habits, right? But they weren't good enough for me. While on occasion, I stopped drinking and smoking temporarily, my urges kept driving me back compulsively. As long as my urges motivated me, I was an alcoholic and an inveterate smoker.

Then thirty years ago, I joined my wife and daughter in one of the late Mr. Wetherill's study groups, and I learned that there is a natural law of behavior called the law of absolute right: Right action gets right results; wrong action gets wrong results. I made the decision to take right action and refuse to continue taking action that was wrong—my drinking and smoking, for example.

The reason my decision has held for thirty years is that I made it to conform with the law of absolute right and not for any reason of my own.

There is much more I could recount of how my decision to conform with the law of absolute right has benefited me, and if I have made you a little curious, I suggest you order the book How To Solve Problems and Prevent Trouble. It describes why we take wrong action and how to stop it. Conforming to the principles of nature's behavioral law will change your life.

Meeting with others who are learning about the law is helpful, but you can do it on your own. Toddlers don't join groups to learn how to conform with the law of gravity so that they can walk instead of crawl through life. Of course, they see other people walking and those examples are helpful. That's why I thought you would find my experiences with drinking and smoking helpful.

At present, the information of the law of behavior is being shared by only a small segment of society. However, people who depend on the laws of physics (and who doesn't?) can learn to depend on creation's law of right action and gain its protection and benefits. I recommend you try it.

Dave