Quitters, Inc. Summary

Dick Morrison runs into an old co-worker at the airport. The co-worker, Jimmy McCann, has stopped smoking and claims that he has turned his whole life around since he stopped smoking. McCann gives Morrison a card for the place where he went to stop smoking, claiming that it changed his life and Morrison should give it a try. Morrison goes to the address on the card and meets with a counselor, though Morrison is not fully committed to the idea of quitting just yet. The counselor tells Morrison to come back the following day if he really wants to quit. Morrison does, even though in the back of his mind he is still not committed to quitting. The counselor advices him that he will be watched twenty-four hours a day for the first two months of the program. If he should...