The Easy Way to Stop Smoking Quotes

“The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.”
― Allen Carr, The Easyway to Stop Smoking

“Wouldn’t that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say ‘I never want to smoke again’, then spend the rest of your life saying ‘I’d love a cigarette.’ That’s what smokers who use the Willpower Method do. No wonder they feel so miserable. They spend the rest of their lives desperately moping for something that they desperately hope they will never have.”
― Allen Carr, Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Be a Happy Non-smoker for the Rest of Your Life

“However, you cannot force smokers to stop, and although all smokers secretly want to, until they are ready to do so a pact just creates additional pressure, which increases their desire to smoke. This turns them into secret smokers, which further increases the feeling of dependency.”
― Allen Carr, Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Be a Happy Non-smoker for the Rest of Your Life

“Responsibility becomes stressful only when you don’t feel strong enough to handle it.”
― Allen Carr, Easy Way to Stop Smoking

“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 there is nothing to ‘give up’.”
― Allen Carr, The Easyway to Stop Smoking

“The moment you stop smoking, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you’ve stopped smoking. Now when you have a mental block, instead of just getting on with it you start to say, ‘If only I could light up now, it would solve my problem.’ You then start to question your decision to quit smoking.”
― Allen Carr, Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Be a Happy Non-smoker for the Rest of Your Life

“There are people who can make love standing on a hammock, but it is not the easiest way.”
― Allen Carr, Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Be a Happy Non-smoker for the Rest of Your Life

“The cigarette gets the credit for everything and the blame for nothing.”
― Allen Carr, The Easyway to Stop Smoking

“Eight hours after putting out a cigarette, you are 97% nicotine-free. After just three days of not smoking, you are 100% nicotine-free.”
― Allen Carr, The Easyway to Stop Smoking

“The only reason any smoker lights a cigarette is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous cigarette created.”
― Allen Carr, Easy Way to Stop Smoking

“Smokers do not smoke because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.”
― Allen Carr, Easy Way to Stop Smoking

“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.”
― Allen Carr, The Easyway to Stop Smoking

“The moment you stop smoking, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you’ve stopped smoking.”
― Allen Carr, The Easyway to Stop Smoking

“Get it clear in your mind: CIGARETTES DO NOT FILL A VOID. THEY CREATE ONE! These bodies of ours are the most”
― Allen Carr, The Easyway to Stop Smoking

“Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime’s chain of filth, disease, fear, misery and slavery.”
― Allen Carr, The Easyway to Stop Smoking

“for me, is the saddest thing about smoking: the only ‘enjoyment’ a smoker gets from a cigarette is temporary relief from the discomfort created by the previous one. All the smoker is looking for is the state of peace, tranquility and confidence that they had before they started smoking in the first place.”
― Allen Carr, Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking

“Just one cigarette’ is a myth you must get out of your mind.”
― Allen Carr, Easy Way to Stop Smoking

“We think of stopping smoking as something that is very difficult to do. What do we need when we have something difficult to do? We need our little friend. So stopping smoking appears to be a double blow. Not only do we have a difficult task to perform, which is hard enough, but the crutch on which we normally rely on such occasions is no longer available.”
― Allen Carr, Easy Way to Stop Smoking

“The effect of the brainwashing is that we tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-story building is heard to say as he passes the fiftieth floor, ‘So far, so good!”
― Allen Carr, The Easyway to Stop Smoking

“To me this is the most tragic part of this whole business. How hard we worked to become hooked, and this is why it is difficult to stop teenagers. Because they are still learning to smoke, because they still find cigarettes distasteful, they believe they can stop whenever they want to. Why do they not learn from us?”
― Allen Carr, Easy Way to Stop Smoking

“If you haven’t got your health you haven’t got anything’ but it’s true. I used to think that physical fitness fanatics were a pain. I used to claim that there was more to life than feeling fit: like booze and smokes.”
― Allen Carr, The Easyway to Stop Smoking

“the sweetest things about breaking free from the slavery of smoking is to no longer have your life dominated by fear.”
― Allen Carr, Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking

“Warum nehmen Sie bei anderen Dingen so manche Mühe auf sich, um hier und da ein paar Mark zu sparen, und geben ohne mit der Wimper zu zucken Tausende aus, um sich selbst zu vergiften?”
― Allen Carr, The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Non-Smokers Using Allen Carr's Easyway Method

“Was soll die ganze Gesundheit. wenn man sich dabei elend fühlt?”
― Allen Carr, The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Non-Smokers Using Allen Carr's Easyway Method

“It is basically fear that keeps us smoking: the fear that life will never be quite as enjoyable without cigarettes and the fear of feeling deprived.”
― Allen Carr, Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking

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― Allen Carr, Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking

“The body cannot crave nicotine. Only the brain can crave.”
― Allen Carr, Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking

“These cigarettes are the equivalent of wearing tight shoes to get the pleasure of taking them off.”
― Allen Carr, Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking

“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.”
― Allen Carr, Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking

“We confuse responsibility with stress. Responsibility becomes stressful only if you are not strong enough to handle it.”
― Allen Carr, Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking