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[khyber]

Has anyone heard of the book "Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking"?

If you're a smoker out there who really wants to quit, i tell you READ THIS BOOK. I myself am not, nor have ever been a smoker. However, I NOW know of over half a dozen friends and family members who have simply read this book and quit smoking.
I bought two copies back home: for my bro in law and one for me to lend to friends.
The lady at the bookstore said that she ALSO used the book as WELL as her friend.
Everyone i have heard of who read this book has quit. And apparently it is literally the easiest way to quit smoking.
anyone know any other stories about it?

[rapier]

sounds interesting..heres a review.

The Easy Way to Stop Smoking - A Book by Allen Carr
from Lesly R.

Book Review by Lesly R.
After numerous attempts to quit his 100 cigarette a day habit, Allen Carr came up with a plan to quit smoking that finally worked for him. He wrote this book based on his plan. The book became a best seller and has sold millions world-wide.

I did not use his plan to quit smoking. I purchased this book out of curiosity five months after I smoked my last cigarette. I found the book to be very reinforcing to my resolve not to smoke. Carr discusses everything about the nicotine addiction - triggers, social pressure, smoking and boredom, etc. He gives practical solutions to overcoming these situations along with great analogies about the misconceptions of nicotine addiction.

One analogy I particularly liked was that of wearing shoes that are too tight all evening. By the end of the night, your feet are killing you.
You are so relieved to take off those shoes and your feet feel so good. However, if you had not put those shoes on in the first place, you would not have sore feet. In the same manner, smoking does not relax or calm you down – smoking merely relieves the situation that smoking created in the first place – the need for nicotine.

I can��t tell you that Allen Carr has discovered an ��easy�� way to give up nicotine. I personally don��t think there is an easy way. I think there are lots of ways that will work, but they all take personal effort . I think what Allen Carr has done is write an extremely readable, well written book chock full of ideas to help you in your mental efforts to quit smoking. If you buy this book thinking he is going to give you an easy out from addiction, I think you will be disappointed. If you buy this book, however, to use as an additional tool in your efforts at smoke cessation, I think you find it to be valuable.

~Lesly R.~
http://quitsmoking.about.com/od/tipsforquitting/a/AllenCarrReview.htm

[khyber]

[hack]

I'm sure it works for a lot of people. In my case, I watched my best friend (41 years old) go from 200 lbs to 130 lbs in about 5 months. 2 days before he passed, I read a note from him (he could no longer talk after his throat surgery,) that implored me to stop smoking-I wish I could share it wth you but it was between 2 best friends. It is the most moving piece of writing I will ever read and while it is brutually frank, it made my respect and admire Bob even more if that was possible. I promised to show it to his chidren if they are ever foolish enough to take up the killer stick-thank god they seem to feel about it like I do.
That was just over 4 years ago and I have not only stopped but have also become an anti smoking nazi.
If you smoke in front of me, I show you 2 pictures of Bob-1. with his once handsome buff body playing golf in Pebble Beach 2.then a scrawny face and no hair on his head that I carry it in my wallet with scrambled eggs oozing out of his trachetomy after he choked on them.
Yeah, it's gross, -some people call me a boor for doing so but think how it was for Bob.
Smoking is the most severe form of denial I now of. If you continue to smoke, you will almost certainly die from it and not in a fashion that you would choose to go. You lie in a bed in a cancer ward with a bunch of other people who were in denial, throwing up every few hours, perhaps crapping in a bag, so your room stinks to high hell. You cough to the point tht our chest is ready to explode, You sit in your bed listening to other patients' doctors tell them what the next steps are in their fruitless fight against the big C. Then you hear the exact some bullshit when your doctor has a consultation with you and our family. You look at your wife and family who implored you for years to quit and you kept promising you would but you never did because you needed the fix it gave you to deal with the stresses of your life. Radiation and chemotherapy are the last ditch effort. They are a grotesque reminder of how bad you look without hair and how much you hate being on display to a bunch of resident doctors and nurses who seem to have now become or custodians even though they are in 2nd year of an underfunded medical program
I'll also show you a picture of my father at 75 years of age holding up 1 of the 2 packs of Players plain he limited himself to every day. He was 1 of the lucky ones who was totally impervious to cancer. About 3 days before his 78th birthday, his lungs just gave out and he choked to death in front of my mother in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. His dying comment? At least I didn't suffer through cancer. Yeah, trying to get a breath and literally choking to death is how I want to go. I loved my father without question but he knew he was playing a chump's game by smoking.
I still worry that cancer can come calling for me even though I've been off the cancer stick for 4 years. But if it does, it's my own fukin fault for being in denial. But if you are still smoking, what's your excuse? Stupidity, denial, believe it can't happen to you?, young and invincible?
Or just too fuxxing stupid to believe that smoking WILL kill you?
Food oozing out of your trachetomy when you are being fed by a student nurse isn't my idea of cool. Talking through a throat tube is equally ubcool-people don;t want to hear thiose gross sounds, plus they don't have a fukkin clue what you re trying to say. But then what's cool really matter when you got a few weeks left to live?
Well I guess she could take pity on you and...... NAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, smokers are losers. How can you trust people who do something that they know will kill them?

[Bulsajo]

There have been a number of threads on this book over the past couple of years here.
I heard about it here (from either Superfly or Ryst Helmut- perhaps both), and credit it with my current 11 months and counting success. I did deviate from Carr's plan in that I used patches for 2 months.

[helly]

A friend just gave it to me last weekend. Haven't started it yet but planning to after finishing my current book. Figured it should have my full attention.

[Bulsajo]

I forgot to add that it's an incredibly poorly written book. The guy doesn't win any points for style.
However, I believe he acknowledges that at some point.
And he doesn't care whether or not it's poorly written, only that it's effective. Which it is.

[Keepongoing]

The guy has a book on the Easyway to Quit Drinking and when you read it you have to scratch your head about the reasonableness of drinking.
I think if you read the book it would spoil the drinking party a bit.

[tomwaits]

I dislike him already..

Who wrote "How to Stop Spending 20 Bucks on Rags By Oprah-mentality Gurus?"

A shyster,

[Bulsajo]

[manlyboy]

You could always try sticking them up your arse. It's probably a lot healthier for you.

[skinhead]

[Confused Canadian]

[Hyeon Een]

I read the book but the style really irritated me. It had that annoying self-helpy american style which really winds me up. I guess oprah-esque is the word. I didn't quit then. I quit a few months later after checking out the website http://www.whyquit.com there's a free e-book there you can download which is better than Carrs one in my opinion because its less.. annoying. It is still quite annoying, but not as much so. There's a bunch of forums you can read there too which might be encouraging (though they are full of the annoying self-helpy "GOOD ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!! YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!" type drivel.

Oh yeah, download one of those quit counters. They tell you how many cigarettes you've not smoked, how much money you've saved etc. by not smoking.. they're kinda cool.

-HE