a miracle (Dr Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking)

Member Name: josollsam

Product:	Dr Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking
Date:	06/05/01 (438 review reads)
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Advantages: Gives you back your life

Disadvantages: None

I had smoked from the age of 10. By the time I was 30 I smoked around 40 cigarrettes a day, no problem!

I would rather have gone without a meal than without a fag. My last penny would be spent on cigarrettes.

I went out with a non-smoker for a while and told him I would give up. But I didn't, although I tried to decieve him in many pathetic ways.

Whilst walking along the road I would light up (secretly) and hold the cigarette in my hand tucked into my sleeve, at the risk of burning my wrist, turn my head as though to look in a shop window and take puffs of the cigarette. As if he wouldnt know! My breath must have stunk all the time.

Anyway, I had wanted to quit smoking for years and had tried all sorts. I was becoming more and more frustrated with myself, feeling bad and guilty that I did not have the will-power, feeling weak and pathetic. Every single night I would say 'I will not light up tomorrow'. Of course the very first thing I did was light up.

Someone lent me Allen Carrs book. I told myself that if this book did not work I would give up giving up and quit giving myself a hard time about it.

I was so scared to read the last chapter, so scared that it was not going to work...But it did.

It is now 7 years since I have smoked.

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It is 7 years since I read the book. It is plain and easy to read, and very logically written.

Basically, Mr Carr appeals to your intelligence. He reminds you continually of why you would want to be a non-smoker. He points out that all the reasons why you think you smoke can't possibly be true.

To give a small example, he says that one thing you may say to yourself is that you like smoking. He points out (this is how I remember it, so it is possible that I am mis-quoting very badly here!) that your body is part of you and it does NOT like being poisoned at all. He reminds you th
at everytime you take a puff that immediately after it was not as satisfying as you thought it would be.

He points out that we smoke to relax but then in the next breath we smoke to help us concentrate. Well, either it is a stimulant or a repressant. It can't be both.

He just blows one justification and excuse after the other out of the water and tells you how it really is. You can't, in the end, argue with him. He is right. You are a non-smoker.

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