AMORMOTOR Tobacco
Quit for love of who you're becoming.
- 338 pages
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- 89K words
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- 18 chapters
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- Releases Aug 2026
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- FR + EN
Not a substitute for medical or psychological care. It complements, it points the way.
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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.
Jean-Philippe Nitkowski
Born 1992 in Abidjan. Lives in France.
I smoked for seventeen years. I quit in a few minutes — no NRT, no psychoanalysis, no unkeepable promise — after a sensory projection of my future. Not an intention, not a rational decision, just something that happened in the body.
I don't write after winning. I write while living these quits. It's deliberate. Tobacco is gone, alcohol too. Sugar is in progress, documented live in a separate journal. You see the method being tested on someone who hasn't resolved everything yet — not only on someone who already succeeded.
I call this mechanic memory-in-advance. It's what your brain already does when it imagines a place you haven't yet been: it uses exactly the same circuits as remembering. If you bring that felt future back to the present, you can become, literally, the person you imagined.
AMORMOTOR Tobacco is the first book in the series. Followed by AMORMOTOR Sugar — Journal (drop late 2026 — early 2027) and AMORMOTOR Alcohol (drop early 2027).
I'm not a therapist. I'm someone who documented the mechanic of a quit while living it. The book draws on peer-reviewed science and personal experience. For people who need clinical support, the book points the way — it doesn't replace it.
The book draws on 13 peer-reviewed sources.
No claims out of nowhere. Every central mechanism is grounded in published research. Click through to DOI / publisher.
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Schacter & Addis
Trends Cogn Sci, 2007
Same hippocampal circuits for memory + prospection.
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Hershfield
J Marketing Res, 2011
Future-self avatar exposure → behavior shifts toward that future (n=86).
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Bickel · Stein
Episodic Future Thinking, 2014→
EFT reduces delay discounting in addiction (meta-analyses).
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Lally
Eur J Soc Psychol, 2010
Median 66 days (range 18-254). Habit = felt repetition.
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Hayes
ACT 1999, +300 RCTs
Defusion : observe thought as object, not as truth.
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Beck
Depression, 1967
Cognitive restructuring : thought is not the fact.
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Cuijpers et al.
World Psychiatry, 2013
CBT meta-analysis : robust effect on addictions and anxiety.
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Frings et al. (Allen Carr)
Addiction, 2020
Peer-reviewed RCT on the Carr method — narrative effect proof.
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Cochrane Chamberlain
2017, 102 trials, n>120,000
Fetal benefits from full quitting, at any pregnancy stage.
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Surgeon General
2020, 700+ page meta-review
Official US reference — gains at 15-25 years documented.
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Doll et al.
BMJ, 2004 — 50-year UK doctors follow-up
Quit at 30 → almost all years gained. At 60 → 3 more.
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Hughes
Tobacco Control, 2004
95% relapse in unsupported self-quit. The book names the difficulty.
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Balban et al.
Cell Reports Medicine, 2023, n=114
Cyclic sighing morning protocol — reduces anxiety, improves mood.
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.
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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.
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