Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking
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The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.
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Of all the basic human values, surely freedom is the most basic and most important? Who could conceive of anything as stupid as giving away this priceless gift in order to be enslaved to a drug that doesn’t even get you high?
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it is interesting to note and also ironic that cigarettes only seem precious to us when we aren’t smoking. When we are smoking, we take it for granted and we’re barely even aware that we are doing it.
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I closed my mind, prayed it wouldn’t be me, kept my head firmly in the sand and hoped that I would wake up one morning with no desire to smoke.
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what we are ‘enjoying’ when we smoke after a period of abstinence is not the cigarette, but ending the state of wanting or needing it.
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It is the myth of the occasional or ‘special’ cigarette that keeps willpower quitters mourning the loss of their ‘little friend’ instead of celebrating the death of an enemy.
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We confuse responsibility with stress. Responsibility becomes stressful only if you are not strong enough to handle it.
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You do not need to smoke. It’s the last thing you need to do; make sure it isn’t the last thing you do.
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These cigarettes are the equivalent of wearing tight shoes to get the pleasure of taking them off.
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The body cannot crave nicotine. Only the brain can crave.