Stop Smoking Now; Read The Book (Dr Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking)

Member Name: swissh

Product:	Dr Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking
Date:	16/05/01 (1561 review reads)
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Advantages: it works

Disadvantages: long book, intelligence needed

Smoking is very hard to give up but is easy to stop; don't understand then you haven't read Alan Carr's 'The Easy Way to Stop Smoking'.

I 'gave up' smoking on several occasions and always found it extremely difficult, in fact it made my life a misery. I would be constantly making decisions involving trying to avoid smoking; shall I go to the pub, if I do will I smoke, if I don't smoke will I enjoy it, If I stay at home I'll miss out but I definitely won't smoke etc. etc. and in the end IU always started smoking again; a few puffs and then a couple of fags in the evening, ten on a night out; you know the story. I even managed to give up for several years but started again when my routine and social life changed.
I new all the reasons that I should give up; I'm a PE teacher, I have a family and knew all the statistics on siblings taking up smoking if their parents did; I was constantly jumping through hoops to keep smoking a secret from my children, a close friend had died suddenly of cancer caused by smoking in their early forties. I was painfully aware that after a day at school a cigarette in early evening would actually make me feel tired and nauseous but I would almost force myself to smoke it. Why?
Alan Carr explains why, Basically we make all sorts of subconscious and conscious links with smoking a fag, which we 'learn' and assume to be real. We feel that if we stop smoking we are missing out on something that we will not be able to function, to look good, to be grown up, to concentrate, to relax etc. the nicotine draining out of the system reminds of all of this and as we put the nicotine goes back in we link this with the return of a feeling of well being. Allan Carr explains how cigarettes, the smoking industry and even some of the misguided approaches to 'giving-up' combine to trap us in a terrible lie and he, through a sort of drip-drip argument turns the whole myth (which has bee
n building in our minds since our formative years) upside down.
Every time someone uses the phrase 'Giving up' they are helping keeping people smoking; You 'give up' something nice, something that you enjoy, that in someway gives you pleasure (but might be not too good for you) you give up clubbing in mid week, you give up chocolate, you give up sugar in your tea. You 'stop' doing nasty habits; you stop picking your nose, stop biting your nose, stop swearing etc.
A smoker reading this might find holes in this argument but if it's got you thinking then read the book because there are several hundred pages of reversing the lie.
It is the only approach that I have personal experience of true success, in that smokers truly stop and are happy to not smoke.
As a last thought I'll draw my one example of a contradiction from the book; smokers often suggest that enjoying the taste of a cigarette is a primary reason for smoking;

Think of three brands that you really enjoy.

Now think of three brands that you really detest (young smokers often mention Marlboro, Camel, french cigarettes etc.)

Describe how they taste.
Now put yourself in a situation where you would normally smoke; down the pub, after a meal, with your mates after work/school etc. and you've run out and the only cigarette available is one of the hated brands………..you know what you'd do; you'd smoke it anyway. What does that tell you? Read the book

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