REVIEW: Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking is a best-selling book that has helped scores of people to finally quit smoking -but it isn't perfect.
In this review, I recount my own experiences of using the Easy Way to Quit Smoking method, what worked, what didn't, and what I did and didn't like about the book.
I also outline my own recommendations/advice on how to use this book to help you quit smoking.
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Quit drinking (30 years ago). Scared shitless. Did whatever it took to get and stay sober.
Quit weed (5 years ago). Realized I was creating my own problems. Did enough to change how I wanted to live.
Quit smoking (1 week ago). Saw how many ways I was hurting myself. Still hard to visualize my future without smoking. One day at a time.
Quit drinking, weed and smoking like 18 years ago. Stayed clean for 15 years, a non smoker, but then relapsed, just smoking, not the other stuff. But it's been the hardest thing to quit the first time around and now. I haven't smoked for around 50 hours and not missing it cuz just had a nose surgery and this is the last thing on my mind. So I'm like, why not use this opportunity to get rid of smoking 🚬 too
hopefully by now you can't even believe you ever smoked! I smoked for 8 years and I can't believe it now, 6 years cigarette free. Nasty!
I quit smoking with Alan Carr’s book for 6 years and then broke one of his cardinal rules...I was going through a tough time and thought I could have “just 1 cigarette “ Now I am rereading his book.
hey hows it going? The same thing happened to me, but I read that it doesn't really work a second time.
Is it working the second time?
Jayo Caine ...it did work a second time...Instead of reading it I ordered the audio on my Apple Books app. I finished my final cigarette last Monday so it’s almost been 2 weeks. I’m doing great! I really believe his method is the only one that works. I had smoked for almost 20 years when I found his book. I owe my life to Alan Carr!
exactly..me too. i believed i could have just one also
Certainly is the golden rule. All smokers are chain smokers, regardless of amount or time between cigarettes. You've only stopped when you break that chain. Once you realise that every reason for smoking is because of nicotine addiction, it's easier to see that the mental hold has to be dealt with. Everything Allen explains about the mental part is true.
From someone who did the course and smoked his last cigarette, 11th October, 2003.
@@IDontReadReplies42069 it worked for me even after the 16th time
Today is my quit day 07/21/2020. This book is amazing!!
Yeah, how's it going?
Yay. Still free ???
Whassuppp today is mine how is it going
I found this to be a miracle for me. Ive stopped using willpower and start to using common sense. The only thing i would add to the book is to pick 3 words like "nicotine monster ,slave etc... And ever time I have bad moments and thinking about smoking those words takes me straight back to the book. And in seconds im no longer interested in smoking again .
I decided to attempt to stop smoking today. I've been watching your videos for support, and noticed I've only taken a few puffs over the past few hours. Normally I would have had at least 3 or 4 full cigarettes by now. I appreciate you taking time to make these vids, and your complete honesty.
Hi Chris I found your videos a few weeks ago and have watched a couple of your videos. I started Champix 8 days ago and today is my first day without cigarettes. I had flicked through Allen Carr's book back in the 90s and wasn't truly in the right headspace and nope didn't work. I have tried hypnosis many NRT products and am on Champix again for the 4th time. Today I found a copy of the Allen Carr dvd today and it has changed my mind set this time or perhaps locked in my current mind set. I turn 49 this month and have smoked for almost 40 yrs and im now truly ready to begin the next decade with a clean fresh start. Thank you for this review and all your vids. :)
Thank you Chris! ...yes I have read this book 2 times and I can relate to what you are talking about.Thanks for the recommendation..I am going to sit down and reread again for the 3rd time.
Like you, I found Carr's book helpful but went back to smoking. I needed that and more. I appreciate you understanding that & letting me know I'm not stupid. Your videos are helping me a great deal, thank you so much!
8 weeks not smoking by god it’s your videos that got me through thank you very much x you should write a book Chris told my dr about you and partner finally smoke free at 51 after 26 years wow your just amazing thankuou Debbie scotland
I read his book and continued to smoke for years. What bothered me was his insistence that the smoker doesn’t really enjoy smoking. Yes I did, I did enjoy it but being free from it is more enjoyable. I mean no one could say to a heroin addict that they really don’t like heroin because they love the high but hate the habit. Quitting is its own reward!
This is meeeeee but I haven't been able to free myself yet ...
what high do cigarettes give a chronic smoker?
Hi Chris! I quit smoking eleven days ago. However, today is the day of the crisis. Why today? I've no idea. Maybe it's this rubbish weather today, which certainly hasn't helped. I did my best not to reach for a cigarette, and tomorrow, I will feel mentally stronger and proud of myself for beating the craving. I had a glass of squash, three scoops of rum and raisins ice cream, and the niquitine spray. If it wasn't for the rain, I would have gone for a walk, too. I tried thinking of anything to do or occupy my mind but think of cigarettes. I watched a couple of your videos because that seems to help a lot these days. Thanks again.
Read this book twice and gave up for a month each time. Started reading it again recently, decided to just stop with a quick refresher, a lot of the info I read from the book originally has been mentally retained. Gave up taking Champix due to the side effects. I have heard that repeated attempts to quit eventually get you quitting, maybe you learn from your own mistakes, I’ve started to visualize smoking a cigarette if I’m having a craving and then imagine how gross it will taste despite the craving and how unsatisfied and disappointed I will be if I actually smoked that cigarette not to mention how it won’t actually work and only create lethargy rather than relaxation. Just throwing more tips out there from someone in the process of managing it. Maybe I’m doing it wrong but it seems to be helping right now.
Thank you 😢
I'm Somebody who went through it, didn't work , am hooked again. Now I'm ready to go over it again. Your videos are good.
Oh. My. God. I thought I was the ONLY one who read this all the way through once...and smoked a cigarette again. Thank you for the hope. I'm trying again.
It worked for me
Well Chris i found exactly the same i agree with you 100 percent !!!
keep doing the good work. i realy liked your video! Curently thinking about quiting smoking, and this was very interesting.
I quit smoking a few times for a couple months here and there, Im mostly just addicted to nicotine gum atm. Im looking forward to reading this, its in the mail for me now
My mom quit smoking with the help of the gum, but she couldn't stop the gum. We weren't so worried about that, though, because just nicotine wasn't nearly as bad as the crap that comes along with smoking. She was a non-smoker for seven years when she was diagnosed with lung cancer. How are you doing now?
Anyone who implies there is an “easy way” is lying, in my opinion. If you are in a headspace where you are ready, and confident you’ll quit, it’s smoother, but It’s an intense psychological addiction, and I’d like to hear from people who think it was easy to quit. Wouldn’t everyone quit if it was “easy”?
THAK YOU
For anyone who read "Easyway" and then failed after successfully quitting for a period of time, instead of re-reading it, I recommend reading "The Only Way To Stop Smoking Permanently" also by Allen Carr. In this one he explains his method even more by going over "Easyway" points (explaining them in greater detail and expanding upon them). This time you will completely understand his method. And I assure you, you will remain a happy non-smoker FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. After reading "Easyway" you might still have some doubts and unclear points, but after reading "The Only Way" you will be absolutely certain that you will NEVER need to somke another cigarette.
I want to quit smoking please help me.
Did you manage to?
I read this book a few years ago, but I wasn't ready and really didn't want to quit smoking. But, I am reading it again. I heard it doesn't work the second time. Any opinions? I have tried vaping, chantix, wellbutrin, patch, gum, meditation, and everything else I could think of.
You still hanging in there? How do you feel physically? Sorry if you mentioned it in the video, but I stopped after about 20 minutes
Awesome video
PLEAS READ!!!!!!!
Thank you very much, Chris. ^^
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didn't help me ... smoked while I read it !!! haha ... still smoking many years later ... getting motivated, thank you
Hi vimy, get the CD and listen to it, might help
@@HermanMelendez Is the CD just the book on CD or is it something different?
@@chersgear7202 Hi Bulldog, it's the audio CD of the book, with a few extras as I recall. I ordered it from Amazon for $46.86
If you put in Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking CD it should pop up. It's pricey, but cheaper than all the cigs. Good luck!
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Thank you! :)
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nisem nehala kaditi,prebrala sem knjigo,prosim te povej kaj je point, da me je strah res je strah me je apmpak kako naj premagam ta strah,občutek imam da manjka del mene,občutek kot da mi nekaj manjka,kot da mi manjka roka,neznam drugače opisati.zelo dobro razlagaš,prosim pomagaj mi.vem da bom končala zelo slabo,že težko hodim ,nimam sape,pa sem stara 47 let vem da morem in hočem nehati,prosim pomagaj mi, PLEASE READ THIS,HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go and ask the doctor for a photo image of those lovely black lungs if you smoked years. I'm was 43 year at the time and ended up with a feeding tube because I couldn't swallow food and liquids . I had narrowing of the oesophagus, my next visit to the hospital if I didn't quit was lung cancer I was told .
The hospital said I had the lungs of a 90 year old man . I bought this book in 2018 and read it twice and yes, I had my illness to help to me kick the habit but I still struggled to the book helped me along the way . Slave to nicotine no more . 6 years today 12/06/2024
Good luck to all with probably what is the hardest drug on this planet to quit .
10 months off alcohol and not even counting 😆👍
This book didn't do anything for me. Neither did quitsure or anything. I am doomed 😭😥😥😥😥
You're certainly not doomed at all, there's countless ways to quit smoking, i'm sure you'll find the one that's right for you!
@@ChrisSkoyles okay. Trying again (cold turkey). I smoked last night and felt sick. I had a good cry, quit before I did a bedtime meditation while i slept. I woke up today and it's been 21 hours so far. Feeling ok. Had a headache but just took something for it, keep feeling like i have lost something, hearts beating fast and food tastes weird but, I can deal with this. It's actually feeling better this time so far. And weirdly, i feel happy. Hope it stays like this.
@@ChrisSkoyles update. Haven't smoked now for 1 day and 17hours. Cold turkey. Feeling ok. Get the odd headache and i feel tired but so far so good. Main thing that's bothering me is this feeling like somethings missing or like i should be doing something. I am hopefull that, that feeling will go in time.
So,basically you failed to follow the Allen Carr instructions 😂