Do not Quit Smoking - Stop Smoking Using the "Cedar Cigarette Spirit". . .
Posted: Wednesday, May 11, 2011
by Calvin Pstone
No Smoking 101
For those who desire to stop smoking cigarettes you may have already read several articles entitled, "How to Quit Smoking Cigarettes". Apparently they haven't worked if you have arrived at this place in your life. That is, reading an article about the benefits of not quiting the use of tobacco products.
Be that as it may, the facts have been in for years now. Quitting smoking is the easiest act a smoker can achieve. I know; myself and millions of other nicotine addicts have quit smoking hundreds of times. Stopping and thinking a moment. . .perhaps quitting is indeed the problem. Not quitting might be a fresh new approach which could manifest some positive results.
From No Smoking 101 - the book. . .
Chapter 22: The Ten Year Old Man
Passenger Wayne says, “Ah, Mr. ah . . . Cal, sorry, but what is a ‘Cedar Tree Cigarette Ceremony’? That sounds scary to me. Are you going to hurt me?”
“Listen up folks, before you go. Wayne has a legitimate question and concern and I will give the answer now. It will take just a minute or so. Good timing, Wayne, no problem.”
“On the stern deck, before you retire for the evening, bring your cigarettes, lighters, and ashtrays. We are going to have a last cigarette together and then ceremoniously give death to a child’s cigarette. Your child’s cigarette is going for a swim along with it attentive paraphernalia. Before and after the toss, which you will never forget, we will draw the aromas of a Cedar Tree’s budlets into our smell sensors. The aroma of the Cedar Bud, when smelled up close, will produce an experience that will show your mind’s past and future that you keep alive along with the real ‘Present.’ The astounding part happens when a cedar seed’s smell simultaneously produces these constructs, sort of like having extra eyes in the sides and back of your heads.”
Well Reader, I can see that was clear as mud for everyone. Look at the confused expressions on their faces, just like the expression on yours. I’ll explain.”
“First of all, you’ll soon discover the subtle, benign sensations of sniffing a cedar tree limbs greens and the intoxicating aroma of tropical flowers—similar to the feeling experienced when stepping off a plane in Hawaii. Nothing like eating peyote buttons, which by the way, and speaking of out-of-body experiences, produce a completely unique mind-trip. Sorry, that’s much more than you need to know.”
“Cedar tree budlets never produce euphoria, a feeling of elation or well being like a drug high, except for maybe a slight one thanks to the natural cleanness and purity. The ‘Cedar Spirit’ creates for you an optical connection between your mind and your spirit. You know, ‘Sniff. . . Earth to self . . . Roger, Self here.”
“Many of you hail from different parts of the country. Cedar trees grow almost everywhere on the planet so you have probably seen one. Cedar trees grow best around here in the Pacific Northwest. Indeed, the world’s largest living cedar tree attracts tourists just 40 miles from here as my now-dead crow used to fly, just a few miles southwest of Forks, Washington.”
“Fortunately, and thank you Grandfather, I am part Native American, Seminole. When I began smoking cigarettes in junior high school, I hung out with the local natives, not Seminole, the tribe that lived right behind Lummi Island, aft at direction, 5 o’clock. I wanted to tag along with them because they impressed me as the coolest guys around. Looking back, I was honored by their letting me hang out with them.”
“In fact, they invited me to a private ceremony where 10 year olds in the tribe were brought up in status, marked as men. Yes, the tribe considered 10 years old the age when a young person should begin working and contributing to the needs of the children and elders. This seemed quite normal to me, perhaps because I started bringing income into my family at age 7 and helped to support my family until I graduated from high school and entered the military.”
“Like you, Wayne, I was pretty nervous being the only white guy there, amid pretty loud folks, drums and singing and all. A few hundred people crammed into a 100-foot-long lodge building. Inside, two huge fires burned all the way up to the ceiling holes. To me, the ceremony seemed light years ahead of the enthusiasm of a ‘Pentecostal Church’ group meeting. Yes, from my perspective, the ‘Native American’ ceremony seemed well orientated to weed out the wimps and retain the true believers.”
“Sure enough, I knew that in keeping with ‘Murphy’s Law’, what you fear most will happen. My friend Samuel, referred to as Wise Sam, leaned over to my ear as we sat there watching and said to me, ‘Calvin the elders say you must be properly brought into being a man. They offer you the space to be among the twelve chosen 10 ten year olds tonight. Consider yourself lucky, my friend.”
“At that point, the hit movie ‘A Man Called Horse’ starring Richard Harris had not yet been made. If I had seen the film beforehand, I would have streaked like a rocket out of the large lodge doorway. Instead, without skipping a beat, I said to Sam, ‘This is good, I am honored. What must I do?”
“Talk about peer pressure, my pipe began pegging the needle at 800 pounds per square inch gauge. Unwilling to do anything to lose my position, I felt respected, thought of as wise, contrary to my Dad’s opinion of me. By contrast, at the lodge with my Native American friends I felt safe, and I miss them to this day. … Cigarettes and alcohol use has since destroyed them and they are dead or scattered now, save for a few.”
Calvin did indeed become a man. The details of the ceremony are private but the "Cedar Ceremony" must be understood by all people. . .is how the elders explained it to him. Thus, in the adventure story, Calvin continues talking to the people on the deck of his beautiful yacht as it speeds North to Sitka, Alaska. . .July 2nd, 2013.
No Smoking 101 uses 33 illustrations within its text to convey the books terrain. . .happy reading in the smoking adventure story with a twist. . .No Smoking 101
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