Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking

by Allen Carr

What more predictable and sustainable source of income is there than an addict?

Smokers no more choose to smoke than drinkers choose to become alcoholics, or heroin takers choose to become junkies. It is true that we choose to light those first experimental cigarettes. I

That fear is not relieved by cigarettes but created by them.

You didn’t decide to fall into the nicotine trap. But like all traps, it is designed to ensure that you remain in it.

smoking a cigarette takes you back to the level of comfort that non-smokers are at all the time.

What is it doing for me? Do I actually enjoy it? Do I really need to go through life paying through the nose just to stick these things in my mouth and suffocate myself?

The truth is that the most stressful periods for any creature are early childhood and adolescence. We tend to confuse responsibility with stress. Smokers’ lives automatically become more stressful because tobacco does not relax you or relieve stress, as society tries to make you believe. Just the reverse: it actually causes you to become more nervous and stressed.

the most pathetic aspect about smoking is that the enjoyment that the smoker gets from a cigarette is the pleasure of trying to get back to the state of peace, tranquility and confidence that his body had before he became hooked in the first place.

The main reason that smokers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that you are giving up nothing whatsoever.

The only reason any smoker lights a cigarette is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous cigarette created. It

The subconscious is an extremely powerful influence in our lives, and even in matters of fact rather than opinion millions of people can be deluded.

These bodies of ours are the most sophisticated objects on this planet. Whether you believe in a creator, a process of natural selection or a combination of both, whatever being or system devised these bodies of ours, it is a thousand times more effective than man! Man cannot create the smallest living cell, let alone the miracle of eyesight, reproduction, our circulatory system or our brains. If the creator or process had intended us to smoke, we would have been provided with some filter device to keep the poisons out of our bodies and some sort of chimney. Our bodies are, in fact, provided with fail-safe warning devices in the form of the cough, dizziness, sickness, etc, and we ignore these at our peril.

Tobacco takes away your confidence.

Smoking is a chain reaction and a chain for life. If you do not break that chain, you will remain a smoker for the rest of your life.

It’s only when we can’t have cigarettes that they appear so precious.

All you ever enjoy in a cigarette is the ending of the craving for it, whether it be the almost imperceptible physical craving for nicotine or the mental torture