I wanna take away all those little things that you shouldn't be doing. You're a business owner, you need to be concentrating on the big items. You do not need to be worrying about"Oh, you have to send out that email. Oh, I should really do that Facebook post. Oh, I need to do some research on finding some new clients." None of that it what you should be doing.

Well, the Cigarette Whisperer is a new nickname in the last few years. It's one of the physicians who calls me that. I've been helping people stop smoking since 1991, I'm off cigarettes since 1987. I never dreamt this would be a calling for me, but it has been.

My story basically starts when I was four I was sexually abused the first time and then from the time I was 12 until I was 22. I always turned to drugs, alcohol, you know, self-harm was a big role in my life and when you're that damaged, of course, you get caught up with bad relationships.

My story basically starts when I was four I was sexually abused the first time and then from the time I was 12 until I was 22. I always turned to drugs, alcohol, you know, self-harm was a big role in my life and when you're that damaged, of course, you get caught up with bad relationships.

Since about 2004 or 2005, when the Edison Research folks started to do survey studies on the consumption of podcasts. There is a perception that there was a gap in popularity of podcasting in the middle part of the last decade, in the 2008 timeframe or so. 2009, there was a little bit of a dip in press coverage really. It was more around the hype. That was about the time when YouTube and Twitter and Facebook were starting to hit their stride.

But I forced myself to look at, you know, myself in the mirror. I'm just ... Tears are streaming down my face, and I was at the point where I had to make a choice. And the choice was I've got to decide whether I was gonna live or die. That's how far I got, and I decided to live. Thank God he was in my life or I wouldn't be sharing this with you today.

What people really need to do, they need to know the truth about what do you need to know about physiology? What do you need to know about dieting? What do you need to know about nutrition? That's what I put in the book.

There's thousands of supplements and things of people promoting every day that this is going to make you lose weight and stuff and people have tried these things and they've just become disenchanted. Nothing is working and they just think well this is just another one of those things that's coming along and it's not going to do anything for me.

Well, it took a long time because it was an arduous task that was cathartic, but it was painful at the same time and there were times that I would put the book down for six months at a time or even a year, and say, "I can't do this." And my wife, God bless her, would always tell me, "If it's too difficult, don't do it." And she was my rock and still is and I said, "No. You know what, I have to do this. It's within me. I want this for my kids, for our kids when we have them."

Well, it was kind of not positive exactly, but he said it was because I was hiding in the closet because I thought I heard police and I was leaning against the closet wall with my knees up to my chest and I had my head forward, and because I was like that for days unconscious, they said that it cut of blood flow in my neck to that part of my spinal cord, which basically killed the spinal cord right at C5/C6, that left me paralyzed