Allen Carr's easy way to stop smoking - it worked for me...

[mimicraze]

i feel awful, i wanna hurry and read it so i can lend it to my mum. my dad, my little brother, my friends, everybody. its crazy! my mums on NRT and i want her to stop, as she was on NRT and quit for three years yet started uyp again. same with my dad. cant wait for them to read it!

[tara]

just got through the first module my son thought it was fascinating so he joined in.

 

its a breath of fresh air-excuse the pun.

its not like any other stop smoking programmes.

 

-(have i spelt that wrong)

[deecee]

Originally posted by tara

I'll order it right now.

 

good luck Tara and your son,

and to mimicraze and everybody else who is trying to quit smoking. I have been stopped for 3 years now and my wife for 4 years, we smoked for 40 years and had about 30 a day. My wife suffered with Asthma but not any more. I am just waiting to have lung reduction surgery because of Emphasema ,caused or helped by smoking

 

hope you all manage to quit

deecee

[Foxxx]

Thought I'd bring this thread back! My friend lent me Allen Carrs book about 2 years ago. It sat my on bookshelf for all this time! I didn't want to give up smoking basically. I picked up the book before Xmas and read the first couple of pages, then put it back on the Shelf! I got scared that by reading it I would have to give up!!!

 

Anyway, having smoked since I was 16/17 and I'm 30 next year, I decided to take the book on Holiday at the beginning of May. I had finally decided that I wanted to give up. I finished the book on 11th May and haven't smoked since. The funny thing is, the withdrawal has been nothing! I have had a couple of very slight cravings e.g. drinking a cup of tea, finished eating but dismissed them very quickly and looked on it as my body expelling the poison and enjoyed the feeling! I can't get over how easy it's been.

 

Many years ago, I tried stopping with patches, after one day, I ripped the patch off and smoked! Then a few years ago, I went cold turkey, withdrawal method. Thing is I kidded myself and kept having a secret cig, or a puff of someone elses so all I had done was cut down to a small amount of nicotine, which meant I put myself in constant withdrawal as I wasn't getting my body clear. The symptoms were awful, night sweats, nausea, fever like symptoms etc. Withdrawal doesn't work very often because you think you've made a sacrifice.

 

This time, no symptoms and I went out the next day, got drunk and used it as a celebration of becoming a non-smoking. I sat in a smoking area with all my mates smoking in front of me, and I was not tempted. I couldn't believe it.

 

I was a reasonable hard core smoker, 20 a day, and if socialising 40 in a night easily. I was terrible if I hadn't had a cig for a while, got stressed so easily, was in FEAR of giving up, so I read the book. What the heck I thought and it worked!

 

Ok, yes it's early days but I really think I won't smoke again. The nicotine is out of my body now, so I do not need a fix like I did when I was a nicotine drug addict! So what would now be the point of having the odd one, or a drag? There would be no point, it would just re-addict me and I'd have to withdraw again.

 

I'm not going to preach to anyone, as I know from being a smoker, it doesn't work. Smokers know the risks and how antisocial etc it is. However, if a friend wants to stop, I'll recommend this book that's all I can do. In the meantime, those friends who say to me "I don't want to give up, I enjoy it, I enjoy drinking and smoking"etc I will be smiling to myself, thinking that's what I used to think, but now I know, you don't enjoy the cigarette, why would you enjoy smoking something poisoness into your lungs? I know now that it was the nicotine that was enjoyed, not the cigarette!

 

Good Luck to anyone who wants to stop.

[sammyBoy]

Good on ya Foxxx.

 

Just as an update, I gave up because of this thread in the middle of July last year. I have just looked back at my post and can't belive how confident I was that I had stopped after just 10 days of not smoking (I stopped overnight after smoking for 20 years) - but I really was sure that it had done the trick. 10 days is now 10 months and I haven't had one drag in that time.

 

I still miss them - I used to love smoking, it was a pleasure (and addiction) rather than a 'habit', but I am so glad that I stopped.

 

I have passed my copy (and a few others) on to other people and it has worked for them too. If you are thinking of stopping give it a read, if only out of interest - thats how it got me to stop!!

 

Sam

[Lea1979]

my brother read the book and highly recommended it to me after he saw he would never go back. I bought the easy way for women to stop smoking which i considered an absolutely fantastic book. I really didn't want to continue smoking to the end and hated everytime i had a cigarette. I also bought the little handy pocket book that has alot of the main quotes in so i could take it around with me and read it whenever i had a spare minute just so i could keep up the good work.

 

The only problem is, it worked for about two weeks. I went out had a drink, had a cigarette and was soon back into my old routine. I don't know why or what went wrong.

 

My point is I thought it a wonderful book and felt like it really was working for me. It just didn't in the end.

 

I would always suggest anyone to try it and hope it works for them.

 

I guess not everything can always work 100% and i must be the exception to the rule.

 

I am still smoking and so is my brother.

[Shiesh]

I tried the book it worked for my parents but not for me...eventually I joined a stopping smoking group at my doctors surgery (The Avenue Medical Practice, Reney Ave, Greenhill) it runs every Weds from 5.30 for new enrollers then 6 til 7 every week!!

 

You get 4 weeks prescription for either patches, inhalers, zyban, etc and the support of the group..(you don't have to attend every week but I found it helped me stay stopped in the early weeks)

 

Guess what I stopped and now into week 7!!

 

I cannot believe it...I have tried and failed so many times before

 

 

And I have made 3 new friends who have also stopped too!!

[Draggletail]

Originally posted by Foxxx

 

This time, no symptoms and I went out the next day, got drunk and used it as a celebration of becoming a non-smoking. I sat in a smoking area with all my mates smoking in front of me, and I was not tempted. I couldn't believe it.

Well done, Foxxx. Sounds like your experience is pretty typical of someone who stops smoking using the Allen Carr method - elation at how easy it was to stop, a desire to share this with other people, a confidence and sureness that you will never smoke again......

Thanks for bringing my thread back up. Chances are you will help someone else to stop smoking the evil weed

Yes, I can still get quite evangelical about the Allen Carr book, and It's eleven years since I stopped smoking

Draggle.

[Foxxx]

Originally posted by Lee1979

my brother read the book and highly recommended it to me after he saw he would never go back. I bought the easy way for women to stop smoking which i considered an absolutely fantastic book. I really didn't want to continue smoking to the end and hated everytime i had a cigarette. I also bought the little handy pocket book that has alot of the main quotes in so i could take it around with me and read it whenever i had a spare minute just so i could keep up the good work.

 

The only problem is, it worked for about two weeks. I went out had a drink, had a cigarette and was soon back into my old routine. I don't know why or what went wrong.

 

My point is I thought it a wonderful book and felt like it really was working for me. It just didn't in the end.

 

I would always suggest anyone to try it and hope it works for them.

 

I guess not everything can always work 100% and i must be the exception to the rule.

 

I am still smoking and so is my brother.

 

This is unfortunate. I know I'm still in the early stages and I could do what you have done (but I really think/hope I won't), all I can say to you is, the reason it didn't work is because you didn't take in what he said and follow all his instructions. This is the main reason for failure using his method. If you had really taken it in, you wouldn't have felt the need to smoke when you had a drink. You need to remove all the brainwashing you've had about enjoying a cigarette especially when drinking. I have been out and enjoyed drinking just as all non smokers do and haven't felt the need to smoke just as non smokers don't feel the need.

 

When you are ready, read it again. The time wasn't right for you.

[Foxxx]

Originally posted by Draggletail

Well done, Foxxx. Sounds like your experience is pretty typical of someone who stops smoking using the Allen Carr method - elation at how easy it was to stop, a desire to share this with other people, a confidence and sureness that you will never smoke again......

Thanks for bringing my thread back up. Chances are you will help someone else to stop smoking the evil weed

Yes, I can still get quite evangelical about the Allen Carr book, and It's eleven years since I stopped smoking

Draggle.

 

Cheers and well done you. Fingers crossed, if this forum is still going in 11 years, I will be posting the same post as you to someone else!

 

It's funny actually, I'm not craving now, I can only assume because the nicotine has gone, but every now and again I feel an urge, I can only assume because of the habit. I have to remind myself that I've stopped! I guess it's drummed into me to light up when I answer my phone or have a cuppa tea, and I used to light up almost subconsiously. But with any habit, it's easy to break. Weird example, but I think of it like this, I used to feed my dog every day at 6pm without thinking about it. After he died I automatically went to the cupboard at 6 to get his food, then remembered he'd died and I didn't need to feed him. It was just habit and you soon break it.