Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Be a Happy Non-smoker for the Rest of Your Life

Didn't get the exact book that I ordered but i have read 120 pages since I bought it a few days back.I have been smoke free for 3 days now I had been a smoker for 25 years.I have not craved a cigarette and especially since reading this book, it made me realise that smoking does nothing for me, doesnr relax me, the cigarette controls me. I will not be a slave any more waiting for that next fix,Well I can tell you now that I will never have another cigarette because IM A NON SMOKER.Great read Allen Carr.I'm off for a smoke 🚬 😤 just kidding 😂

I only read this to make a work colleague shut up. Like most people who smoke, I had a vague idea that I would give up one day... it just wasn't going to be today. I knew smoking was bad and gave you lung cancer and [fill in list of diseases here], and was a waste of money and made your teeth yellow. Hey, I *smoked*; I knew what a bad idea it was much better than the do-gooding non-smokers.But I also knew what giving up was like: the irritability, the lack of concentration, the headaches, the bored, horrible, obsessive feeling with a little tube of dried plant that you could no longer put into your mouth and set fire to. And frankly, all the arguments in favour of giving up were as nothing to the sheer nightmare I knew it was going to be.Then I read this book. Allen Carr also knows this stuff; he smoked 100 cigarettes a day for thirty years. Not only is this in itself a more impressive credential than being a pink-lunged doctor or psychologist, it means that he really does understand what it's like. From the point at the beginning where he says that on National No-Smoking Day, all smokers smoke twice as many, I knew this man was on to something. He knows that pictures of cancer-riddled lungs do not make smokers stop (just the opposite in fact, because the fear and stress make you reach for the packet again...)The conventional language of 'giving up', i.e. making a sacrifice, shows the fear inherent in this process - a fear which the giving up industry does nothing to quash. Slogans like "Don't give up giving up" just left me wondering exactly how long I was supposed to go on suffering through lack of cigarettes. Patches and gum just replace the drug you normally take once an hour (or whatever) with a form where you take it constantly!!Where Allen differs is that he deals with the psychological addiction first. To give up smoking, all you have to do is not smoke. But first you have to be convinced that you don't need to. And this is where this book is so good.I'm not going to say much more about Carr's method, because you need to read the book. But - for me - the proof that this works is that I began it with absolutely no intention of stopping at all, and finished it knowing that I was never going to smoke again.That was six years ago. I haven't had a cigarette since. I've wanted some, yes; the first day was awful, mainly I think just due to the shock to my system because I'd read the book very fast, and so had also come to my decision to stop very fast. I've had what I used to call cigarette cravings too (there's a Pavlov's dog somewhere in my head that still jumps for a ciggie as I get off an aeroplane); I've made the interesting discovery that these are mainly caused by a desire to get away from the situation I'm in - and it's very interesting to start dealing with stuff straight away, rather than hiding with my drug for ten minutes first.Buy it. Buy it TODAY. As Carr himself says, the worst that can happen is you'll just carry on smoking.

I wanted to wait until a decent amount of time had passed before I wrote a review of this book, just to prove that it does work! And it does. Yep, that's right, I've been cigarette free for 6 whole months now and feel great!I stopped smoking for 5 years once, then I went back to smoking the thin cigars every now and then at a party. Over the months, my addiction went up to the level it was before when I was smoking, and pretty soon I was on about 20 a day! In the past when I stopped smoking I used the Nicorette nicotine inhaler, and that did work for me then, but this time I tried everything - inhaler, patches, willpower, electric cigarette - and I still couldn't break the addiction. So for 2 years I was trying to stop and not getting anywhere, until a friend told me to read this book. She said several people she knew had stopped smokinh using it, and the book reported to have a really high success rate. I was sceptical. I mean, how could a book help you stop smoking? But I'm so glad I read it, and if you want to give up, I'd recommend it to anyone.I've been telling everyone I meet about the book and how high the success rate is, and they all ask the same thing. "Does it talk about all the really disgusting things smoking does to you?"; "Does it bombard you with horrible facts and figures and pictures?" Well, no. Anyone who knows a smoker's mind (and Allen Carr obviously does), will know that would be like encouraging them to smoke more. Any smoker can recognize the mind-set of being bombarded with adverts for smoking and them justifying it by saying, "Well, you have to die of something," or "I could get hit by a bus tomorrow, I might as well enjoy myself", and then reaching for a cigarette and lighting up! The interesting thing about the book is that it doesn't preach most of those things to you. Smokers already know the risks. What it does do is makes you think differently about smoking and cigarettes. It makes you change the way you feel about them and your relationship with them. Instead of looking at cigarettes as something you have to "give up" (which implies it's something good), it makes you look at them in a totally new light. In a way, it's like self-hypnosis. And because of the way it's done, it makes the process of stopping smoking so much less painful than any other method I've ever tried. OK, yes, I did get a bit grumpy for the first couple of weeks (hubby will probably say more than a bit!), but it wasn't painful like it had been in the past.One of the things that struck me while reading was the way smokers are manipulated. We're bombarded with adverts for products to help us "GIVE UP" smoking, but the term giving up implies that it's something pleasurable - something that is good for us. Not something that's slowly poisoning us to death. I mean, drug addicts aren't told by healthcare professionals that they're "GIVING UP CRACK", are they? The governments pay lip service to getting people to stop smoking by adding health warnings to cigarette packets, however, if they really wanted to do something, they could force the tobacco companies to produce cigarettes without nicotine in them. Nicotine is the only reason smokers are addicted to cigarettes, without it, it would be easy for all the millions of smokers around the world to quit. But, of course, they won't because there are millions of pounds to be made from people's ill-health and suffering resulting from smoking. In the 60s, apparently, a tobacco company did produce a cigarette without nicotine and it was buried so deep it would never see the light of day. Shocking that this is going on in the 21st Century, isn't it? I mean, could you imagine if chocolate producers added an addictive substance to chocolate, or dairy farmers added an addictive substance to milk. Imagine the outcry!It says you can still smoke while reading this book, but when you get to the end you won't want to smoke any longer. People who aren't ready to give up will put the book down then, but hopefully they'll come back to it later when they are ready. I read it during a four hour flight so I couldn't smoke, anyway, which was good for me. When I closed the book, I said to hubby, "Right, that's it. I'm not smoking anymore." He said, "Oh, yeah!" as he'd heard it too many times to count! But it's been over six months and I haven't smoked at all.So if you want to stop smoking the easy way, you have to read this book. It does exactly what it says on the tin!