Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking
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Because he’s brainwashed into believing he has made a genuine sacrifice when he quits, the cigarette continues to dominate the ex-smoker who quits using willpower. This is why people quitting using willpower are often so miserable.
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You have a golden opportunity to save your life by breaking free from this awful addiction and the limitless pain and suffering it brings to so many millions of lives. You have a choice. Make no mistake; if you choose to continue to smoke after reading this book, you’ll be a smoker for the rest of your life. Is this really the future you are choosing for yourself and your family?
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As I have said before, it’s not so much that we genuinely enjoy smoking, but that we get miserable when we can’t. This is not genuine pleasure, it is an attempt to avoid discomfort—a discomfort that non-smokers don’t get.
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If I had a time machine that could transport you forward in time just three weeks to experience the mental and physical benefits of quitting, that is all I’d need to do to persuade you to quit. You would think: ‘Will I really look and feel that good?’ Actually, what it really amounts to is, ‘Have I really sunk this low?’ I emphasize that the benefits are not only physical; you will have tons more energy, confidence, courage and self-esteem. You’ll also be more able to relax, concentrate and handle stress.
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Shortly after putting out my final cigarette, the congestion that I had felt in my lungs for years disappeared along with my smoker’s cough. My attacks of bronchitis and asthma stopped overnight, never to return. However something even better also happened—all the more delightful because it was so unexpected. I started waking up at seven in the morning feeling completely rested and full of energy actually wanting to exercise, jog and swim. At forty-eight I couldn’t run a step or swim
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a stroke. My sporting activities were confined to such intensely athletic pursuits as lawn bowling and golf, for which I had to use a cart. Today, at age seventy-two I jog two to three miles a day, work out for thirty minutes in the gym and swim twenty lengths. It’s great to have energy, and when you feel mentally and physically strong, it feels great to be alive.
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As I have said many times: it’s not that we enjoy smoking, it’s that we’re miserable when we can’t smoke.
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It doesn’t work because smoking is not a habit, it is an addiction.
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The next time those smokers inadvertently see the health warnings, the next time they have a heart flutter or pains in their chest, the next time they’re the only smoker in a group of non-smokers, the next time they are going out and feel anxious because they don’t know if they’ll be able to smoke, those poor smokers will have to continue to pay a fortune for the privilege of poisoning and suffocating themselves to death. And for what? Why do they live this life of slavery and pain? To remove that little empty feeling caused by withdrawing from the previous cigarette, so they can temporarily ...more
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The saddest thing here is that even though he is not smoking, the cigarette is still dominating the ex-smoker’s life.
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Cigarettes don’t make meals or social occasions; they ruin them. Smokers aren’t smoking after a meal because they enjoy it, but because they are drug addicts who need their ‘fix’ after a period of abstinence.
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Instead of feeling fearful and anxious about pangs, embrace them. Say to yourself: ‘I know what this is—it’s the ‘little monster’ dying.
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You will think about smoking—but it’s what you are thinking that it important.
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SAVOR EACH THOUGHT AND EACH MOMENT. REMIND YOURSELF HOW WONDERFUL IT IS TO BE FREE ONCE AGAIN AND CELEBRATE THE PURE JOY OF NO LONGER BEING A PRISONER, A SLAVE AND AN ADDICT.
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Willpower quitters frequently doubt their decision to quit because they still suffer from the illusion that they enjoyed smoking and this causes the sense of deprivation we have already discussed at some length.