- ISBN13: 9781402718618
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
A new edition of the revolutionary bestseller, with four million copies in print. Allen Carr’s innovative Easyway method—which he learned with his own 100-cigarette-a-day habit near drove him to despair—has helped millions kick smoking without feeling nervous and deprived. That’s since he helps smokers learn the psychological reasons behind their dependency, clarifies in detail how to handle the withdrawal symptoms, shows them how to dodge situations when temptation might be converted into excessively strong, and enables them to stay smoke-emancipated. Carr discusses such issues as nicotine addiction; the social “encoding” that encourages smoking; the fake belief that a cigarette relieves stress; the character boredom plays in sabotaging efforts to stop; and the main reasons for failure. With this proven program, smokers will be throwing away their packs for excellent.
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No need for a long assess here. About the first three quarters of the book is washed-out exploding various myths and delusions about smoking (such as smoking relaxing you or being paid rid of stress), which sets you up and gets you into the right frame of mind for in fact quitting. At this point, the book wants you to take up again smoking while you scan it. In a nutshell, the simple road to stop smoking involves two equipment: lone, deciding you are by no means going to smoke again, and two, don’t mope about it anymore, express joy. Sounds excessively simple, but with reading the first part of the book, this strategy will make more sense to you.
Lastly, the book cites two main reasons why you will fail: the shape of other smokers, and having a terrible day. Having been around for 20 some years and being able to refine it with twenty years of feedback, I believe like this is lone of the surpass books out here on non-smoking.
Also caring: The Sixty-Second Motivator -fleeting, to the point, and practical.
Rating: 5 / 5
My partner tried each practice including the LungUSA program (Freedom from Smoking), counselors, the gum, strength of mind, etc. I came crosswise this book in the mall, she scan it, and quit. And she did it decisively. place on’t buy this for someone you want to quit — set aside it for when they are committed and struggling and need something to help them. The psychology is devious but vastly effective. I even bought a copy to place in the broadcast library. It begs the inquiry — why hasn’t it be converted into well loved here already?
Rating: 5 / 5
I quit with 40 years of smoking at least lone pack a day, and it was just as simple as Allen Carr said it would be. I reflect the answer is to produce in and accept what Carr is telling you.
I didn’t reflect I was ready to quit. I thought I loved smoking, and some days, a cigarette was my only incentive to make out of floor. I had bought the book on a whim, for some day far away off in the future when I’d be “ready” to quit. I had bought a carton of cigarettes on Saturday, and then on Sunday I was bored and chose to scan the book. Had my last cigarette before I was halfway through. Then morning at work, a friend questioned me if I was ready to go outside for a smoke break and I said “Well, I don’t smoke anymore, but I’ll go outside with you.”
No withdrawal pangs, just a feeling of relief that I didn’t have to smoke any more, and that it wasn’t going to be tough at all. All the smoking triggers that I worried about — car trips, with meals, phone calls, stressful times at work or at home, leaving work and lighting up, having a beer at the bar — none of those equipment triggered the urge. The urge is gone.
Fancy I had found the book earlier.
Rating: 5 / 5
UPDATE: May 18, 2008–Nearly two years now. More pleased than ever. My tiny circle of fellow-quitters-by-this-book: subdue a 100% accomplishment rank, most of them for nearly as long as me.
Scan my long, rambling assess if you like, but I’d rather you’d spend as much time reading as loads of DIFFERENT reviews here as doable, then…BELIEVE IT.
Trust me, I know that as a smoker, it seems categorically unbelievable. I was just so the same road. Just do it, produce it a shot. 359 out of 406 said FIVE STARS. That’s no manufacturing accident. You’ll see some patterns in these reviews…believe what you’re reading. Do it now.
Ten bucks for this book? That’s two packs of smokes! So value it. So simple. place on’t waste another day. place on’t even wait for it from Amazon…drive to the store and make it NOW. You can scan it in two or three days…you’ll be emancipated.
UPDATE: September 22, 2006–it’s now been three months since I quit, I haven’t stumbled once, and the thought of smoking doesn’t even penetrate my mind. I can happily and easily be around smokers without wanting a cigarette. For model: a friend of mine forgot I’d quit and questioned me to HOLD HER BURNING CIGARETTE while she went inside the house…I did so with no desire to publicity on it…no kidding…I by no means would have believed it if I hadn’t experienced it myself.
A couple of reviews above contend that you will subdue have cravings. I’m of the opinion that those people weren’t mentally in the right place when they scan this book. Here’s how I clarify it: you can’t crave or fail to attend something that you truly don’t want, right? (Case in point: non-smokers don’t crave cigarettes.) For about a week, yes, I did impulsively reach for the spot on the russet table where the pack ordinarily was, but I’d quickly remember that I’d quit, and had no struggle. In fact, so easily beating the impulse was empowering.
Scan the avalanche of positive reviews, and believe it. You know you shouldn’t smoke, but deep not working inside, you reflect you want it, that you delight in it…you reflect you will fail to attend it, you reflect you’ll protect wanting it. Allen Carr will convince you of why you don’t want to smoke. I’ve not compulsory this book to four other people, all of whom have quit without a problem. All of them (including me), and two other people who haven’t refined the book yet, have stopped reading in the middle, or delayed starting it since they’re worried that they will take up again to want the thing that they know is terrible for them…they BELIEVE that they delight in and want cigarettes. With you scan the book, you austerely no longer believe the LIES you’ve been telling physically: that you want it, that you delight in it, that you’ll fail to attend it. THAT’S why it’s painless. Do you have to talk physically out of eating cardboard? Do you have to exercise strength of mind not to chow not working on it? Why not? Since you have no desire for it. That’s what this book does for smoking. It’s COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from any other approach to quitting.
Smoke four more days, and you’ve washed-out the price of the book. My original assess from July 14th follows……..
My smoking resume: I quit smoking three weeks ago today, with reading Allen Carr’s book. I averaged a pack and a semi a day for nearly twenty years. During that time I quit smoking several times, once for six months. As with the vast margin of the people who have written reviews here, I quit smoking when I refined reading the book and have had no desire to smoke again. First, I want to address two recent reviews (that you will find below)…
Anthony (three stars on July 6th) makes the point that a person’s commitment to quitting is a factor, and whatever book you’re reading at the time you choose to quit might/may possibly work. That’s rank of right, but I disagree with him on another point: this book’s approach to quitting is vastly uncommon from anything else out here, and I, like most, have tried nearly everything. Nicotine gum, regular gum, land empty cigarettes, sheer force of will, the list goes on and on. This book clarifies, lone by lone, why each method of quitting generally fails, and even when successful, how people who haven’t smoked for long periods can go back to it. It doesn’t, as Anthony says, “acknowledge that it is the determination that ultimately makes it happen”. Carr does note that you have to want to quit, for sure, but he equips you differently that any other method. Fascinatingly, austerely, elegantly: knowledge is the power. Austerely and truly appreciative smoking for what it is gives you the strength, and I guarantee that you’ve by no means heard it clarified like this. If you’re reading these reviews, you’re probably trying and wanting to quit for excellent physically (or for a loved lone to quit), and you know how common, and painful, the failure can be.
Authorize, two huge stars from Kenneth on July 5th. Kenneth, my man, ease up a morsel. We all admire your Viking-like strength and ease of quitting by not buzzing and “just doing it”, “just not smoking”. You are truly a man of fantastic intestinal fortitude. But most of the smokers who are reading these reviews will probably tell you it’s not that simple for them, and they cannot clarify why. My best friend, who subdue smokes but just ongoing reading the book, said, “but I just…want lone.” He couldn’t clarify why. And Kenneth, before you disagree excessively strongly, o ye of infinite strength of mind, why, then, did you ever smoke at all? How long were you a smoker? A day? I’m pleased for your accomplishment, but you look like you might even be mad about quitting. The other eighty-some people who wrote positive reviews here don’t look frenetic at all. At least be pleased for us, and dodge coaching modest league.
When I’ve quit in the past:
1) I always chose I’d quit the following day, since I had to be able to smoke a few more before I in fact stopped–y’know, otherwise, it would just believe like I’d run out–then I’d ruin any remaining cigarettes before I went to sleep (with clogging my lungs and cutting my eyes with as loads of as I physically may possibly), and “not smoke” when I got up the then day. I’d wake up feeling ill, and would be smoking by noon, typically.
2) I rarely tell anyone else I was quitting (‘produce the looming dread of failure made me want to make sure I had really quit before I broadcast it, so as not to embarrass myself freely with my weakness…I would at least want to make past noon).
3) I had to make sure here were not any smoke-able butts somewhere, since I’d certainly fire lone up if I found it. Had to spray water in the trash cans, since otherwise, I’d dig through the trash looking for butts. Y’know, you’re not REALLY failing to quit if you don’t in fact go BUY a pack, right?
4) I was frustrated, irritable with people I loved and enraged with people I didn’t even know, and was always thinking about the cigarette I wished I was having but knew I couldn’t. With doing that a few times, I was able to consider how miserable quitting was before I would even make an have a crack. Talk about a discouragement…that would start several more months or years of puffing away before I’d reflect about trying to quit again.
Does any of that signal familiar?
This time–and I’m not kidding:
1) I quit when I refined reading the book. It was around lone in the afternoon. I stopped at that moment with no regrets or doubts about what I’d do with my hands for the rest of the day. Matter of fact, an hour with I place out my last cigarette, my mom called to tell me that her doctor needed her and my dad to come in collectively to peek at a CAT scan from earlier that week, didn’t tell them why, but it sounded serious. Mom just called to let me know and question for prayers. This was ONE HOUR with my last cigarette. She’s authorize, by the road…a chronic sinus infection, not the huge “C”…but I by no means even felt close to wanting a cig.
2) I have been telling everyone I talk to, from day lone, that I’ve quit smoking.
3) I’ve walked by lots of leftover cig butts (I’m something of a slob, I estimate) and sometimes I toss them in the trash, but sometimes I just sign it off, leave it here, and have no desire whatsoever to spark it. I’ve had some moments where, austerely out of habit, I reach for the place on the russet table where they were, but I’m equipped to deal with it, and Allen Carr’s not kidding, either–it’s in fact fun to beat the brief urge to smoke, and so easily.
4) I was not frustrated or irritable (no more than a normal, non-smoking human, anyway), and now when I reflect about the cigarette I’m not having, I smile rather than sweat.
Scan more of these reviews…these people aren’t making it up. Here’s a reason that the average rating is five stars instead of two and a semi. No manufacturing accident. I didn’t believe it until I scan the book. I would scan a assess and reflect, “yeah, you haven’t smoked in five days, I’ve done that lots of times.” But with I refined the book, I realized that I was looking at equipment completely differently than I ever had before, from the moment I place out the last lone. Lone of these reviews says something like, “I scan two-thirds of this book and then stopped reading it since I was worried if I refined it, I’d quit smoking.” Basically, he was worried that by austerely finishing the book, his cigarettes would perpetually vanish from his life. HE WASN’T AFRAID OF FAILURE, HE WAS AFRAID HE’D SUCCEED. How cool is that? (and if that doesn’t demonstrate how twisted smoking is, I don’t know what does.)
The closing selling point that got me to buy this book: you make to smoke all the road until the very aim, no guilt, no pressure. So you won’t have to fail to attend any of that smooth, full, smoking pleasure if the book doesn’t work. But it will work, in spite of you. That’s what’s so fantastic about it.
Do It Now.
Rating: 5 / 5
I was not compulsory this book by an ex-heavy smoker (40 a day). he said it worked for him and gave me a copy. I smoked for 10 years, and have been a non-smoker again for 4 years.
I tried to scan it once (out of peer pressure) and by no means got to the aim of it. 6 months later I retried reading it, this time I refined reading it. I havent smoked since.
I dont fail to attend smoking at all. Yet I’m not a smoker.. I like the smell of fresh smoke, I can see why the ritual of smoking appeals to smokers, I dont mind if others smoke but I have categorically NO desire to smoke.
Its a despondent-cost painless road to quit. Try it.The book is an simple common sense scan but really does exchange your perception.
Rating: 5 / 5