The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently: Quit cigarettes for good with this groundbreaking method (Penguin Health Care & Fitness)

by Allen Carr

Every smoker wishes that they had never lit the first cigarette. Every smoker envies non-smokers.

The nearest thing to the nicotine trap in nature is the process by which a fly is lured into a pitcher plant. So named because it is shaped like a pitcher – the jug not the baseball player. Insects are attracted to the smell of the sticky goo with which the rim and internal surfaces of the plant are liberally coated. The hairs on the plant grow in one direction only – downwards, which combined with the effects of gravity, ensures that the fly travels in the same direction. This is of no concern to the fly because it can fly off whenever it chooses. But why should it even want to fly off? After all the nectar is delicious. Not until it is being digested by the juices in the base of the plant does the fly realise that it’s being eaten by the plant, rather than the other way around, does the fly have any desire to leave. Too late! By then it is so saturated by the goo it can no longer move let alone fly.

the more the drug destroys you mentally and physically, the more you block your mind to the facts and desperately search for any flimsy excuse to smoke: JUST ONE MORE CIGARETTE!

When you extinguish that final cigarette, you will find that your smoking friends and colleagues will fall into two distinct categories. The first I referred to earlier: the ones that blow smoke in your face, perpetually remind you of the pleasures of being a smoker and continue to offer you cigarettes in the pretence they have forgetten that you’ve quit. Why do even relatives and good friends become so unpleasant and vindictive in these circumstances? The first thing that you need to realise is that you are dealing with the fear and panic of a drug addict. All aggression is based on fear. The great advantage of panic is that it enables us to place our own survival above all else. The great disadvantage of panic is that because we are oblivious to all else other than our own survival, we commit acts of which we are ashamed for the rest of our lives.