Authors [ J ]

Mark Jordan,

Author of The Stop Smoking Secret

 

Mark was born in Bangor Co. Down in 1960. He left school without qualifications in 1976 to work in a Sellotape factory and then for a few years as a bin-man. He became a youth work volunteer in 1980 and soon became a part time paid youth worker, then full time then leader in charge of a youth club.

Mark went to University to study Youth and Community Work and focused on addiction and graduated in 1988. He worked for a while with heroin addicts in Dublin and with the homeless in Belfast. Mark went on to form the charity PANDA in 1990 with a group of recovering addicts and secured a large premises in Belfast City Centre and refurbished it into a recovery club for recovering addicts.

He became seriously ill with Crohns disease in the late 90s and eventually had to resign from work. While bed ridden, Mark wrote the stop smoking book and gave away approximately 50,000 e-copies to rave reviews. The book was translated into 3 languages and was made into a DVD with assistance from the Lottery Fund. He re-entered full time education in 2004 and recently completed a HND in Media (Writing) achieving 5 distinctions and 6 merits. He is currently an undergraduate with the Open University studying for a BA (Hons).

Mark lives in Belfast with 2 children, Christine 20 and Conor, 15 and is currently Chairman of two charities.

Books

The Stop Smoking Secret

 

Originally from Glasnevin in Dublin, Annette Holliday had a passion for books from her early childhood.

 

ISBN: 184 223 0786 PRICE: €6.50 Pub. Date: Oct. 2002

Smoking is not just a bad habit. It is a complex and powerful addiction.
Most books miss this central point and offer only offer tricks and tactics. The Stop Smoking Secret teaches the smoker how to recognise and deal with the absolute core of their addiction problem - psychological denial.
As a test, this book attracted over 40,000 downloads on the Internet – proof that help really is needed when people decide to break free from smoking.
The social climate at present is one where smokers are being subjected to more and more pressure not to smoke and society is changing to reflect the feeling that smoking is rapidly becoming socially unacceptable.
The Stop Smoking Secret allows readers to control their mental dependency on cigarettes and teaches them how to overcome their addiction to smoking.