William Mermet

Some traps decide for you before you decide. William Mermet spends his time taking them apart.

He smoked for seventeen years and has been free for twenty, with no patches, no substitutes and no medication. He has been living with HIV since 2016, and kept it to himself for ten years, until he decided that silence was feeding the ignorance around it.

He writes methods, not testimony. The Quit Oath is a complete way out of smoking, built on the idea that willpower was never the problem. HIV My Love maps three dimensions, nine axes and twenty-seven levers for anyone whose ground has just given way.

He writes from France, and runs Tobacco, The Perfect Lie, a channel devoted to the oldest lie of the tobacco industry.