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 enlarge | Author: Allen Carr
Publisher: Sterling
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  461 reviews
Sales Rank: 992
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 1402718616
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.86506
UPC: 749725586160
EAN: 9781402718618
ASIN: 1402718616
Publication Date: January 2005
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Condition: Hardback book with dust jacket has clean and unmarked reading pages, jacket in excellent condition. Ships same day as ordered, with delivery confirmation
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Buy it now! October 29, 2008
I was introduced to this book at work. My supervisor has it and suggested that I give it a try after I told him I was going to quit smoking. (He has been nicotine free and loving it for 7 months now) After looking at the cover, I assumed it was a crock and this guy was making tons of money duping people into believing he truly had the "easy way" to quit. (Sounds more like the tobacco companies with the "easy way" to keep smoking). Anyways, I couldn't even make it over 24 hours cold turkey and willpower, so I decided to give it a try. I read through it with an open mind while smoking, and man... he understands every single thing that every smoker thinks and feels. Barely any of this book talks about the health scares or money, those tactics do not work and he knows it. He will not shove all that crap that smokers already know down their throat's.
It has only been 3 days so far for me, but I LITERALLY have not had any of those HUGE withdrawal "pangs", as he describes them, that I have had in the past. I love being smoke and nicotine free. Look at all of those 5 star ratings... this method works. Just follow his instructions. Read through it a few times if necessary. Most importantly, you absolutely have to know that you do indeed want to quit.
hard to reread, but worth it... October 26, 2008
this book is wonderful except for one, perhaps incorrectable, flaw: the instructions require that if you reach the end and are still anxious, still having any desire to smoke, you must read the book again. however, after reading the book once, it is hard to immediately reread the book because rereading something that you just read has a tendency to drop one's attention span very quickly... i found myself skipping sentences, paragraphs... then even whole chapters. and the other reviews of this book can be a little misleading. many many many people quit halfway through the book and never smoke again. but for many, it actually does require rereading the book. and i'm not talking about once. about six times for myself [or maybe five? you lose track, after a while...] but it does work... it's not difficult, it just takes a lot of attention. it took me a couple months to quit, because it is very difficult to read a book that you've already read, especially when you have extremely little spare time. also... it is better to read the book in one sitting. it works better. i don't know why. but something that works this well with only this one minor flaw... pay attention and be willing to spend time on this book and you won't regret it... it's wierd, but he's right about it not being about money,health,energy. there are hundreds of things that i've realized since i quit that are so much better... it really is nice to never need to smoke, to not need... yeah. so even if it takes a dozen times to get through it, do it. there's nothing to lose and so much to gain here. you know it's made my eyes brighter? they're not all yellowy and dry, they're white and wet now... strange...
Awesome October 24, 2008
The author is so right! I can't believe that this method is not being used by governments worldwide instead those stupid ads that are meant to scare you but just make you smoke more! I quit for a year and half and now bought this book for two friends. You will not regret buying this book, it will definitely make you wonder how come you have been smoking for so long...
It really Works! October 21, 2008
I quit! Unbelievable! If I was able to quit, anyone can.
I didn't even want to quit. Why would I try to quit? I knew I couldn't do it so why bother?
I loved to smoke! I Smoked close to 2 packs a day for 20 years.
My husband wanted to quit and kept using me as the reason that he couldn't. He kept saying I was going to kill him, so, I bought this book and decided to give it a try. I've been a happy non smoker for 7 months now. Yippeeee!
Unfortunately for my husband, he's not much of a reader. He didn't read the book, he still smokes, but at least he can no longer blame me as the reason he's unable to quit! Yes, I even live with a smoker and I'm still not smoking. The day I quit, I got up, smoked as usual, finished the book and quit at 1:00pm on a Monday afternoon. I had a half pack left, I threw it away and never went back to dig it out of the garbage like I expected myself to do. I did sleep quite a bit the first two weeks, but other than that, I was still able to work, drink coffee, and have cocktails without smoking. I wish my husband would read the book!
I Didn't WANT to Quit October 18, 2008
I didn't want to quit. I needed to quit. I bought the book and because I didn't want to quit I put it away until the cough was, quite simply, embarrassing. Then I thought, with this huge tug-of-war going on (I don't want to quit but I must quit for my health!), let's see if it's as easy as he says it is.
He deals first with the fear. I NEVER even tried to quit using 'willpower' before because of the fear. I was just too terrified of losing my friend, my companion, and all my coffee/cigarette rituals. He immediately acknowledged that we all think like that. But in fact we have invented these rituals as ceremonies for our next "hit".
He points out that we don't feel normal any more unless we're smoking because we are drug addicts and in a constant state of withdrawal that makes us feel empty and insecure and which can only be cured by another 'hit'. That nicotine, far from relaxing us in reality, actually makes us anxious because of what it does to the nervous system over time. But the 'hit' creates the illusion of relaxation because it's so much better than the feelings during withdrawal!
He points out a lot more and does it gently, rationally, entertainingly and never ONCE tries to scare us. And by the time I had finished the book I really was ready to jump to the other side of that proverbial line and say, "Yippee! I'm a non-smoker!"
This is key: you're supposed to smoke the whole time you read the book. So I'm sure a lot of people read really slooooowly. That's not a bad thing, that's a good thing. This is a book you want to literally live with for a few days, focus on it, re-read it again if you need to, and let it really sink in so it can change your thinking.
I am so thrilled about this method I called the UK clinic to see what it took to open one of Allen Carr's clinics in the US. I've researched and read a lot of other methods that emphasize the white-knuckling most people go through. This has got to be the BEST method on the market.
Allen Carr does a number on your brain - he de-brainwashes you so you simply don't feel deprived when you quit and that means no white-knuckling!
This method works!
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