Allen Carr - Quit Smoking Boot Camp

The fast track to quitting smoking again... for good

Allen Carr

To Joyce Carr & Madi Lewis and to Tim Glynne-Jones & Nigel Matheson for their amazing contribution in making this book happen

Allen Carr was a chain-smoker for over 30 years. In 1983, after countless failed attempts to quit, he went from 60100 cigarettes a day to zero without suffering withdrawal pangs, without using willpower, and without putting on weight. He realized that he had discovered what the world had been waiting for, the easy way to stop smoking, and embarked on a mission to help cure the worlds smokers.

As a result of the phenomenal success of his method, he gained an international reputation as the worlds leading expert on stopping smoking and his network of centres now spans the globe. His first book, Allen Carrs Easy Way to Stop Smoking, has sold over 12 million copies, remains a global bestseller, and has been published in more than 40 different languages. Hundreds of thousands of smokers have successfully quit at Allen Carrs Easyway centres where, with a success rate of over 90 per cent, they guarantee youll find it easy to stop or your money back.

Allen Carrs Easyway method has been successfully applied to a host of issues including weight control, alcohol, debt, and other addictions. A list of Allen Carr centres appears at the back of this book. Should you require any assistance or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your nearest centre.

For more information about Allen Carrs Easyway, please visit www.allencarr.com

The key that will set you free

Do you find theres never enough time for all the things you need to do in life? Are you putting off your attempt to quit smoking until you can find the time to commit to it properly? If so, this is the book for you. You dont have to wait for the right time; you can enlist for the Easyway Boot Camp right now and begin your mission to quit smoking immediately.

Four days from now, you will be a happy non-smoker. Do you find that hard to believe? Well, I have only good news for you, read on

We hear it all the time: There are never enough hours in the day. If only you could quit smoking or vaping quickly, painlessly and permanently, think of the energy, money, and time you would have to spend on things you genuinely enjoy. But quitting smoking is not something that just happens overnight, right? Some people take months or even years and still dont seem to be completely rid of their desire to smoke. Whos got the time for all that!

That was my attitude to smoking before I finally quit. Sure, quitting would be nice but I dont have the time right now. I led a busy life, I had a successful career, and dealing with the pressures that brings I relied on cigarettes for my little crumbs of comfort. Of course, they werent really giving me comfort; they were only adding to my stress. But I was too wrapped up in my perception of life and the huge role that smoking played in it to see the truth. I needed someone to hold it up in front of my face.

I was very fortunate. Somebody did hold the truth up for me to see. Twenty or so years ago, I attended Allen Carrs clinic in London to see if he could help me quit my 80-a-day smoking addiction. I attended under duress. I had agreed to go, at the request of my wife, on the understanding that when I walked out of the clinic still a confirmed smoker she would leave it at least 12 months before hassling me about stopping again. No one was more surprised than me, or perhaps my wife, that Allen Carrs Easyway method set me free.

If I had been more open-minded, it would not have surprised me. By the time I went along Allen had already helped millions of people to quit through his clinics and books. The evidence was plain to see but, being a chain-smoker whose entire existence revolved around the next cigarette, the worst nicotine addict I knew, I couldnt see it. In hindsight, I can say that part of me didnt want to see it. It took my own personal life-changing experience to convince me.

For a third of a century, Allen had chain-smoked 60 to 100 cigarettes a day. With the exception of acupuncture, hed tried all the conventional and unconventional methods to quit without success. Eventually he gave up even trying to quit, believing: once a smoker, always a smoker. Then he discovered something that motivated him to try again.

As he describes it, I went overnight from 100 cigarettes a day to zero without any bad temper or sense of loss, void or depression. On the contrary, I actually enjoyed the process. I knew I was already a non-smoker even before I had extinguished my final cigarette and Ive never had the slightest urge to smoke since.

It was a revelation to Allen who immediately realized that he had discovered a method of quitting that would enable any smoker to quit:

Easily, immediately and painlessly

Without using willpower, aids, substitutes or gimmicks

Without suffering depression or withdrawal symptoms

Without gaining weight

After using his smoking friends and relatives as guinea pigs, he gave up his lucrative profession as a qualified accountant and set up a clinic to help other smokers to quit. He called his method EASYWAY, and so successful has it been that there are now Allen Carrs Easyway centres in more than 150 cities in 50 countries worldwide. Bestselling books based on his method are now translated into over 40 languages, with more being added each year.

It quickly became clear to Allen that his method could be applied to any drug. The method has now helped tens of millions of people to quit smoking, alcohol, illicit drugs, and to deal with sugar addiction, over-eating, and fear of flying, as well as to stop gambling and overspending.

I was so inspired by Allen and what I saw as his miraculous method that I hassled and harangued him and Robin Hayley (now chairman of Allen Carrs Easyway) to let me get involved in their quest to cure the world of smoking. To my good fortune, I succeeded in convincing them. Being trained by Allen and Robin was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. To be able to count Allen as not only my coach and mentor but also my friend was an amazing honour and privilege.

Over the past 20 years, I have gone on to treat more than 30,000 smokers myself at Allens original London clinic and lead the team that has taken his method from Berlin to Bogota, New Zealand to New York, Sydney to Santiago. Tasked by Allen with ensuring that his legacy achieves its full potential, weve taken Allen Carrs Easyway from videos to DVD, from clinics to apps, from computer games to audio books, to online programs, video-on-demand and beyond.

Behind this phenomenal success lies one simple truth a truth that Allen discovered by chance and passed on to tens of millions of people like me. What connects us all is that none of us expected to be changed in the way we were. We were all sceptical, all labouring under the same illusions. There is a vast army of smokers and vapers out there still suffering their own private nightmare, believing that they enjoy smoking or vaping, that it provides them with some kind of benefit, and that as a result, its hard to quit.

The truth about smoking is kept hidden from most smokers and even from many ex-smokers. Thats why some who quit using willpower continue to crave cigarettes long after they stub out their final cigarette. They believe they are making a sacrifice, resigned to doing without something that provides them with pleasure or support, believing that it helps them to control their weight, to relax, to socialize, and to handle stress. Understanding the simple truth and recognizing how it applies to you is the key to escaping the nicotine trap and staying free permanently. But it takes a special method to do that.