Archived from Charlotte Gerson's book

Story

   A. C. started to smoke cigarettes at the age of 17. She looked barely 15
and hoped that smoking would make her look more grown-up. At first,
she hated the smell and taste of cigarettes but quickly got hooked on
them, and was still smoking 35 years later when she went down with
malignant melanoma.

   When she discovered the Gerson Therapy and decided to go to the
Gerson clinic in Mexico, her main worry was the need to manage without
smoking once she got there. It had been made clear to her that if she
tried to smoke just one cigarette, she would be sent home at once. Having
tried, and failed, to stop smoking more times than she cared to
remember, A. C. felt very anxious indeed.

   As soon as she arrived at the hospital, she found herself embroiled in
the full intensive program: constant juicing, enema training, meals,
instructions and meetings with other patients, which took up every waking
minute. With all of his activity, it took A. C. almost two whole days
to realize that she had neither smoked nor missed her lifetime habit.
The real shock came a few hours later when, in the garden of the hospital,
she met a visitor who was smoking. To her amazement, A. C. found
the smoke highly offensive and quickly walked past the smoker. She suffered
no serious withdrawal symptoms, but it took several weeks for the
extremely unpleasant accumulated residue of her smoking years to
evaporate through her skin and hair. She never looked back andincidentally—
also recovered from her melanoma.