Quit for love of who you're becoming.
April 17 · 2026 17 years smoking. The shift in 4 minutes. Full cessation in 2 weeks. No patches. No psychoanalysis. By love.
Not a substitute for medical or psychological care. It complements, it points the way.
- 17 years
- 94K words
- 18 chapters
- FR + EN
Concretely, that day, I was in my bedroom. I'd just smoked. I closed my eyes. And in a few minutes, seventeen years of habit started falling away.
No patches. No psychoanalysis. No unkeepable promise. By love. A palpable love for something that hadn't yet arrived.
I know that phrase can sound naive. But this book makes it concrete, step by step.
AMORMOTOR isn't a book that tells you how to quit. It's a book that lets you find for yourself what will make you quit.
Here's the mechanic: your brain uses exactly the same circuits to remember a place you've been and to imagine a place you haven't yet been. Same for what you've lived and what you dream of living. This identity of circuits is memory-in-advance. Bring it back to the present, and you become, literally, the person you imagined.
You won't be a smoker who quit smoking.
You'll simply become someone who doesn't smoke.
- 17 years
I smoked. Daily, openly, for almost two decades.
- 4 minutes
The shift in my chest. Not the cessation — the cessation took 2 weeks.
- 0 patches
No NRT. No varenicline. No psychoanalysis. No 12-step.
- 94K words
The full method, peer-reviewed, in 18 chapters.
It was an ordinary evening.
Concretely, that day, I was in my bedroom. I had just smoked a CBD joint, to be straight with you. And it's important I tell you that, because I don't want to sell you a clean, calibrated scene where I'd meditated for an hour and the enlightenment had arrived. It's not that.
I close my eyes. And I ask myself a simple question, not spiritual, not therapeutic. Just:
what am I living right now, and what do I want to live later?
That's it. No protocol. No counted belly breathing. No “I will now project myself five years out.” The question came, and I let what came, come.
And there, I see myself in a magnificent villa. Marble on the floor. Huge bay windows. I'm on a very comfortable couch. And in my arms, I have what I believe to be my wife and my children. A bit blurry as a sensation — their faces aren't sharp, I couldn't draw them for you. But what's sharp is my place. The couch. The arms around them. The light coming in through the bay windows. And in my chest, something precise — not a vague emotion, not a generic “I feel good.” Something localized, in the heart, that weighs and warms at the same time.
You know, when we imagine our future, normally it's cerebral. “I want a house, a family, free time.” Shopping list. There, it wasn't a list. It was a place. A place where I already was.
And I feel a love I have never felt in my life. And especially — that's what struck me — I haven't fallen in love in a good 10 years. 10 years without my heart really beating for someone. So I'll just tell you, it was intense.
Memory-in-advance.
What you remember and what you imagine pass through the same circuits.
« If you bring the felt future back to the present, you become — literally — the person you imagined. »
Schacter & Addis Trends Cogn Sci, 2007
Same hippocampal circuits for memory + prospection.
Hershfield J Marketing Res, 2011
Future-self avatar exposure shifts behavior toward the projected self.
Bickel · Stein Episodic Future Thinking, 2014→
EFT reduces delay discounting in addiction.
Lally Eur J Soc Psychol, 2010
Habit formation runs on consistent felt repetition, not willpower.
MOTOR — five steps.
The mechanic is universal. The path through it is precise.
- M
Move
out of the lie
Dismantle the beliefs that make you think you're addicted. Defusion (Hayes ACT), CBT (Beck, Ellis), expressive writing (Pennebaker).
- O₁
Open
to your future self
Memory-in-advance : a sensory projection of the free version of you, already living. You bring it back as memory. Not promise, not motivation — felt fact.
- T
Transmute
the fear
Under every belief there's a fear. Name it, listen to it, let it speak — then walk through. IFS (Schwartz), Somatic Experiencing (Levine), Maté.
- O₂
Own
the promise
A soft promise, not a rigid contract. Implementation intentions (Gollwitzer), relapse prevention (Marlatt), rites of passage (van Gennep).
- R
Reignite
every day
The first 30 days. The bumps. The door staying open. You walk, maintain, embody. Habit formation (Lally), breathing protocols (Balban).
Open comes BEFORE Transmute. The vision of the free version reveals the fear that blocks the path. You transmute what you've already seen.
What this book doesn't do.
Five things I'm not going to pretend.
- 01 Doesn't replace a tobacco specialist, a doctor, or a psychologist.
- 02 Doesn't work without the fear looked at in the face.
- 03 Hasn't been tested in RCTs — it's a book, not a medication.
- 04 Doesn't promise you'll quit in 4 minutes.
- 05 Doesn't say what works for everyone.
If you need clinical support, the book points the way.
JP
Portrait à venir
me, on the day
I'm not a therapist.
I don't write after winning. I write while living these quits.
- — Quit Tobacco — after 17 years.
- — Quit Alcohol — sober, holding.
- — In progress Sugar — documented live in the journal.
Born in 1992 in Abidjan. Lives in France. The book draws on peer-reviewed sources and personal experience. It vouches for nothing it can't show. It points to professionals when professionals are what's needed. The rest, it walks with you.
« First book I've ever read. And damn, what a punch. »
Andrea Royer
first reader · April 2026
Three books. One method.
Each addiction, the same mechanic, applied with care.
- — 01 OUT
Tobacco
Releases August 2026
My experience: 17 years of smoking, quit in a few minutes. Full method, peer-reviewed sources.
Read more - — 02 LIVE
Sugar — Journal
In progress · live
A journal documented live, before I've fully quit. The method tested in real time, not retrofitted.
Read more - — 03 SOON
Alcohol
Drops early 2027
Sober since January 1, 2026. Same MOTOR structure adapted to alcohol's social mechanics.
Read more
85
days until drop
Late July — early August 2026
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