Carr - Allen Carrs No More Ashtrays

To Ian McLellan, Charles Cooper and the rest of the team at Arcturus Publishing for their marvellous contribution to our mission to cure the world of smoking. Their hard work, creativity and dedication have helped achieve more than 13 million Allen Carr's Easyway book sales worldwide, saving millions of lives.

Allen Carr & Robin Hayley

This edition published in 2011 by Arcturus Publishing Limited
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INTRODUCTION

Most smokers are convinced that it's difficult to stop smoking. The problem, we're told, is the enormous amount of willpower it takes to resist the craving to light up.

Wouldn't it be marvellous then not to have this battle of wills, and to be able to stop easily? The wonderful news is that there is an easy way, a way by which any smoker can quit immediately and permanently.

You will not have to use willpower, suffer withdrawal pangs or need substitutes. You will not even gain weight.

I know you might find this difficult to accept, but it's true.

I've been proving it for over twenty years, not only with my books which have sold more than thirteen million copies, but also at my worldwide network of clinics.

Not surprisingly, I call my method Easyway. My name is Allen Carr, and I am regarded as the world's leading expert on helping smokers quit. I can help you by exposing the myths and illusions about smoking.

Once you see through them, you will be free forever.

This book will provide you with an inspiring companion and enable you to stop smoking easily, painlessly and permanently. I am so confident of your success that, if you fail to stop smoking with this book, you can recover its cost, in the form of a discount, if you attend one of my clinics, which are listed at the end.

So let me be your guide to stopping smoking enjoyably, and becoming what every smoker wants to be: a happy non-smoker. Let this be the first day of an exciting adventure: the day you start preparing yourself to quit easily, immediately and permanently.

Firstly though, please do not attempt to stop or to cut down until I advise you to do so. Carry on smoking as normal until that point. You could spend a lifetime trying to break into a safe and still not succeed. But if you know the correct combination, it's easy.

The nicotine trap is the most subtle, ingenious confidence trick that Mother Nature and mankind have ever combined to set. This book contains the key the correct combination to the safe that will allow you to escape. All you have to do is to follow a few simple instructions.

A QUESTION OF CHOICE?

Ask yourself a question: when did you decide to be a smoker? I don't mean, 'When did you have your first-ever cigarette?', but when did you decide to smoke every day?

In fact you never did; no one chooses to poison themselves with toxic fumes. You just drifted into it, like every other smoker on the planet.

MAYBE TOMORROW

So when will you quit? After you've spent 100,000 (the amount an average smoker spends on cigarettes in a lifetime)? When smoking has crippled your health? When the time feels right?

MAYBE NEVER

How many years have you been smoking? Do you ever wonder why it never seems to be the right time to quit?

I HAVE MY REASONS

Smokers give various arguments for smoking.

Because it tastes good. (Do you eat it?) For something to do with your hands. (Try a biro.) For oral satisfaction. (Use a dummy.)

SPECIAL CIGARETTES

We talk about our favourite cigarettes: for example, the first one in the morning. Isn't that the one that tastes the worst?

Or the one after a meal or with a drink, when answering the phone or during stress? How can an identical cigarette out of the same packet be so different from the ones you smoke at any other time?

DO YOU WISH YOUR CHILDREN SMOKED?

If the answer is no, it means that you wish you were a non-smoker too. So why aren't you?

Some say it's just a habit that they find difficult to break. But habits aren't hard to break. In the UK we are in the habit of driving on the left; if we go to France, we break the habit immediately without difficulty.

SO WHY DO SMOKERS CONTINUE TO SMOKE?

There are no good reasons for smoking.

It doesn't taste nice. It doesn't make you feel good. It doesn't help you to do anything.

Smokers smoke for one reason, and one reason alone:

THEY ARE ADDICTED TO NICOTINE! THE MOST POWERFUL DRUG IN THE WORLD!

ADDICTED? REALLY?

Nicotine is the most powerfully addictive drug known to mankind. Just one cigarette is enough to hook you.

It's also a powerful poison. The nicotine content of just one cigarette injected directly into a vein would kill you. This is why those first cigarettes make you feel dizzy and sick. You're poisoning yourself.

CIGARETTES CREATE A NEED

When the nicotine from the cigarette you just smoked leaves your body, it creates an empty, insecure feeling. Smokers recognize this feeling as 'needing a cigarette' or 'needing something to do with my hands'.

If you light another cigarette, the nicotine is replaced and the empty, insecure feeling immediately disappears. This is the feeling that smokers describe as satisfaction or pleasure. It's like wearing tight shoes just for the pleasure of removing them!

GETTING HOOKED

When you extinguish the next cigarette, the nicotine leaves your system again, the empty, insecure feeling returns and you begin to crave another... and another... and another.

Nicotine, the most addictive drug known to mankind, has hooked another victim.

THE LITTLE MONSTER

Imagine that empty, insecure feeling as being a little nicotine monster, like a tapeworm inside your body that feeds on nicotine.