Allen Carr - Finally Free! The Easy Way for Women to Stop Smoking

I never feel relaxed if I dont have a cigarette in my hand.

You guess you enjoy it? You KNOW you dont.

Ever wondered why you light up:

whenever the phone rings?

whenever you finish a meal?

whenever youre out with friends?

whenever you need to concentrate?

Perhaps you think its just a habit. If it was, you could change it very quickly and easily by locking your cigarettes in a drawer or giving them to someone else to look after. Youd be down from 20 a day to two a day in no time!

But you know that when the urge comes, you would smash open that drawer or fight your best friend to get those cigarettes back.

Ive even heard of new mothers who have left their babies in the maternity ward to go in search of cigarettes. The maternal bond is a fearsomely powerful force. Can you think of any other habit for which a mother would break that bond?

It is not habit that makes you smoke 20 a day rather than two. Neither is it pleasure. It is a force so powerful that it can threaten even the maternal bond.

It is FEAR.

That mother puts her baby at risk because she panics without cigarettes. Why? Because she has been brainwashed into believing that she needs a cigarette to make her feel calm and relaxed.

How do we know shes been brainwashed? Because the thing she thinks will cure her pain is the very thing that caused it in the first place.

Its a vicious circle in which pleasure plays no part. And we have a word for that:

ADDICTION

People who have never smoked cant understand the lengths a smoker will go to for the next cigarette. They have never felt that panic caused by withdrawal from nicotine.

They never feel that desire for a cigarette.

This is the real difference between a smoker and a non-smoker. Until you realize this, you will find it very difficult to quit. You will try to become a non-smoker by never smoking again.

Thats like placing a bucket in the middle of the kitchen under a leaky roof, rather than repairing the roof. Instead of solving the problem, you merely give yourself another one.

Until you stop the leak by repairing the hole, your problem will not go away. Until you tackle the cause, your solutions will always be unsatisfactory.

The cause of your smoking problem is your apparent need or desire to smoke.

Non-smokers never have that feeling of need or desire. Just accept this indisputable fact: nobody but yourself forces you to light up.

One of the many common misconceptions about all drug addiction is that addicts only suffer withdrawal symptoms when they try to stop using the drug. In truth, they suffer them from the moment the first dose begins to leave their bodies, and the only reason they take the next dose is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous dose creates.

You might find this difficult to believe, but stopping smoking is easy for any smoker, including you. All you need to do is remove the need or desire to smoke.

The need or desire to smoke is the result of brainwashing. Before we ever try a cigarette, we are told that smoking relaxes us, aids concentration and helps to alleviate stress and boredom. We are also told that it is a filthy, disgusting habit that will get us hooked and ruin our health and wealth.

Ironically, the people who most emphasize the downside are often puffing away as they do so.

There is not a smoker in the entire history of the planet who believed they would become hooked when they took their first drag.

It is only after we fall into the trap that the brainwashing takes effect. We no longer see smoking as filthy and disgusting but as something enjoyable, relaxing and a real confidence booster. Soon we are regarding cigarettes as indispensable and its not long before we are unable to go without them.