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iano
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Message 13 of 140 (451618)
01-28-2008 8:27 AM


The easy way to stop smoking
Go to a book store and buy Allen Carr's "The Easyway to stop smoking". It's a slim volume and written in simple english (and other languages I gather). Read a couple of chapters a day, follow the simple instructions and in a couple of weeks you'll be a non-smoker. A happy non-smoker that it. He instructs you to continue smoking while you read - how easy can it be!!
There is no willpower required nor trickery involved. Just the truth about cigarettes. And we all know what the truth does, don't we?
I mentioned this book on a similar thread in on another site recently. Someone was listening.
Just finished Allen Carr's Easyway book, put my last tab out and I haven't stopped smiling since. Once you (more accurately, Allen Carr - iano) get yourself in the right frame of mind it really is that easy, haven't had a single craving pang at all, just so chuffed with myself for giving up poisoning my body, giving myself bad breath and yellow teeth, and paying through the nose for it. 24 years of 20-40 a day and I'M FREE!!! Anyone who knows me will know how much I like a ciggie, I thought I'd never do it, this method really works, get the book, read it with an open mind and stop.
I will never smoke again
My sister got the book. She stopped. She gave it to my other sister. She stopped. She gave it to her boyfriend. He stopped. He gave it to my friend. He stopped. He gave it to his brother. He stopped. It came back to our family. I read it. I stopped.
The easy way to stop smoking. It does what it says on the tin.

  
iano
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Message 15 of 140 (451622)
01-28-2008 8:49 AM
Reply to: Message 14 by reiverix
01-28-2008 8:40 AM


Re: Try this
It's a constant battle. Just one cigarette will no doubt trigger the receptors and have me on a pack a day. The craving stoppped after a few weeks but the memories of smoking are still strong.
Then the post above yours is for you too.

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iano
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Message 17 of 140 (451631)
01-28-2008 9:27 AM
Reply to: Message 16 by reiverix
01-28-2008 8:59 AM


Re: Try this
I've heard that book is good, but cold turkey worked for me.
"Work" is a relative term
It's a constant battle.

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iano
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Message 50 of 140 (723119)
03-26-2014 5:35 PM
Reply to: Message 41 by subbie
03-26-2014 10:38 AM


You could do worse than give Allen Carr's The Easy Way To Stop Smoking a read. It's a thin volume and other than listening closely to the truth he has to tell you about why you smoke and why quitting can appear impossibly difficult (with only the prospect of lifetime of longing thereafter) there is no system for you to follow. And best of all, no willpower to have to sustain either in the quitting or in staying quit.
Although not a Christian (that I'm aware of), Allen merely applied the maxim that the truth (and not some gimmick method and not your own effort) will set you free. All you really have to do is read it. PS don't be put off by the repetition or the simple language - it's the truth you need, not intellectual challenge.
Even the title of the book couldn't be more accurate...
Edited by iano, : No reason given.

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