Gone In A Puff Of Smoke (Dr Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking)

Member Name: Goldenboy4001

Product:	Dr Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking
Date:	27/06/01 (670 review reads)
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Advantages: This book has saved me loadsa money, my clothes don't smell and I don't taste like ashtray!

Disadvantages: The author insists that smoking is not a habit - I'm still not 100% sure about this theory.

Ever since I saw pictures of Geri Halliwell (amongst others) looking pensive reading self help books I always swore blind that I never ever read or need one. They couldn?t possibly work and if you actually want to do something then it?s the power of your own mind that will make you do something ? not some supposed Guru who?s writing from his ivory tower on a subject that they have no experience of other from text books.

So it was with severe scepticism that I handed over my £7.99 at Waterstones and left with my rather flimsy looking copy of Allen Carr?s Easyway to Quit Smoking.

Due to the fact that I shall be shortly moving house, I had anticipated that a new routine would make it easier for me to quit, I figured that I would not commence with my effort to ?give-up? smoking until then.

Events dictated otherwise when I found myself in the bathroom with nothing else to read and so I started flicking through the opening pages of this particular ?self help? book.

I was instantly hooked (no pun intended), to the point that I couldn?t put it down.

Allen Carr himself used to be a 100 per day smoker since before I was born so that took care of one of my concerns.

He presents the information in an unpatronising way, using the fact that the smoker knows the health side effects already and doesn?t stick to these.

His method draws attention to the facts of why the smoker smokes, what do they get from it and more importantly, how did the smoker deal with things before they thought they needed a cigarette to help them get through the day.

I couldn?t wait to finish the book so I could become a non-smoker and I knew that I wasn?t giving anything up.

I couldn?t even finish my last cigarette and nearly gagged a few times on a few of the other ones whilst reading the book.

On the other occasions that I had quit I had started again after going out to the pub. This time, I actually was l
ooking forward to going out and not smoking.

I became a non-smoker two months ago and am still finding it really easy. I?ve recommended this book to my friends and two of them have also quit the habit.

Thanks Allen Carr

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