Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking

by Allen Carr

We believe that if we have the requisite amount of Willpower we will be able to muscle through these issues, but of course Willpower is useless because it doesn’t help the smoker to resolve the smoking dilemma and remove the desire to smoke. As a consequence, because he hasn’t changed his thinking about the cigarette and retains the desire to smoke, the Willpower quitter is not really a non-smoker but a smoker who is not currently allowing himself to smoke. This is why relapse is so common among people who quit using Willpower—they never remove the desire to smoke. They believe that the cigarette gave them something and that they are now depriving themselves of that something. It is this sense of deprivation and sacrifice that keeps the desire to smoke alive. Think about it, who is more likely to relapse: someone that doesn’t want to smoke or someone that does? Quite simply, the key to being a happy non-smoker is to remove the desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no Willpower not to do so. In the same way that it doesn’t take you willpower not to do other things you have no desire to do. So long as Willpower quitters don’t understand this, they will continue to have a desire to smoke and will need to use Willpower to combat that desire.