Allen Carr - Stop Smoking and Quit E-Cigarettes

For a third of a century Allen Carr chain-smoked 60 to 100 cigarettes a day. With the exception of acupuncture, hed tried all the conventional methods to quit using willpower, nicotine replacement, hypnotherapy, substitutes and other gimmicks, all without success.

As he describes it: It was like being between the devil and the deep blue sea. I desperately wanted to quit but whenever I tried I was utterly miserable. No matter how long I survived without a cigarette, I never felt completely free. It was as if I had lost my best friend, my crutch, my character, my very personality. In those days I believed there were such types as addictive personalities or confirmed smokers, and because my family were all heavy smokers, I believed that there was something in our genes that meant we couldnt enjoy life or cope with stress without smoking.

Eventually he gave up even trying to quit, believing the maxim once a smoker, always a smoker. Then he discovered something which motivated him to try again:

I went overnight from a hundred 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 didnt take Allen long to realize that he had discovered a method of quitting that would enable any smoker to quit:

* EASILY, IMMEDIATELY & PERMANENTLY

* 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 clinics in more than 150 cities in 50 countries worldwide. Best-selling books based on his method are now translated into over 38 languages, with more being added each year.

Allen Carr was invited to speak at the 10th World Conference on Tobacco & Health held in Beijing in 1998, an honour that the most eminent physician would be proud of. His method and reputation could receive no higher commendation in that he was the first non-medically trained expert to receive such an invitation. Allen Carrs Easyway organization is now widely accepted as the worlds leading authority on stopping smoking and the method has been successfully applied to alcohol, weight issues, fear of flying, gambling, debt, and a whole host of legal and illegal drugs.

Im aware that the claims of the methods success might appear far-fetched or exaggerated, at times even outrageous. That was certainly my reaction when I first heard them. I was incredibly fortunate to attend his clinic in London in 1997 yet I did so under duress. I had agreed to go, at the request of my wife, on the understanding that when I walked out of the clinic and remained a smoker she would leave it at least 12 months before hassling me about stopping smoking again. No one was more surprised than I was, or perhaps my wife, that Allen Carrs Easyway method set me free from my 80-a-day addiction.

I was so inspired that I hassled and badgered Allen Carr and Robin Hayley (now chairman of Allen Carrs Easyway) to let me get involved in their quest to cure the world of smoking. I was incredibly fortunate to have succeeded in convincing them to allow me to do so. Being trained by Allen Carr 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. Allen Carr and Robin Hayley trained me well: I went on personally to treat more than 30,000 smokers at Allens original London clinic, and to be part of the team that has taken Allens method from Berlin to Bogota, from New Zealand to New York, from Sydney to Santiago. Tasked by Allen to ensure 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 programmes and beyond. Weve a long way to go and this book will play a huge part in our quest.

The honour of adding an extra chapter at the beginning of this book has fallen to me. This chapter specifically tackles the subject of e-cigarettes and, in fact, the use of all forms of nicotine. Please bear with me as you read this short but important chapter believe me, its important to do so whether youre a user of e-cigarettes and other nicotine products or not. I promise to leave you in Allen Carrs safe hands after that.

Like Allen and the millions of other smokers who have found it easy to quit by using his method, you can enjoy the same experience . All you have to do is to open your mind and read on.

John Dicey

Worldwide Managing Director and Senior Therapist

Allen Carrs Easyway

To the loyal, dedicated and extraordinary teams at Allen Carrs Easyway clinics worldwide. Fifty countries and counting!

E-CIGARETTES AND ALL THAT!

The title of this book was designed to appeal to all nicotine users. Whether youre a cigarette, cigar or pipe smoker, or a vaper (user of e-cigarettes), nicotine patch-wearer, nicotine gum-chewer, nicotine inhaler, snus- or dip-user in fact, a user of nicotine via any delivery device available this book will set you free.

If youve never vaped or used other nicotine delivery devices, you might make the mistake of thinking this chapter simply doesnt apply to you. Dont! The rest of this book will enable you to find it ridiculously easy to stop smoking youll never have to suffer with nicotine addiction again. But to avoid falling back into the nicotine trap in the future, you must understand it completely.

Youre escaping from the torture of nicotine addiction, not just escaping from smoking. If you harbour thoughts that perhaps in the future you might try an e-cigarette just to see what its like or at some point in the future it crosses your mind to try out whatever the latest nicotine craze happens to be youll be susceptible to falling back into the trap. This is especially important as e-cigarettes in particular are being marketed ruthlessly across all media. One of the most powerful and influential marketing machines on the planet is ramping up its activities once again. Their target? You and your kids! One puff of a cigarette, cigar, pipe, joint with tobacco, or intake of any nicotine by any means will trap you again. Understand why you need to avoid all nicotine and you will not only be set free for ever, but youll find it ridiculously easy to stop and more importantly stay stopped.

Much of the medical and anti-tobacco establishment will tell you that theres nothing to fear from the use of, for example, e-cigarettes. Theyve been heralded as a safer form of nicotine use with few disadvantages. This chapter will explain why that simply isnt true. Why else do you think that within a year or so of their launch hundreds of e-cigarette users had already sought help from our clinics to escape their addiction? And why else do you think this book will be bought and read by millions of vapers worldwide? Studies are already emerging that indicate the tremendous physical harm that is caused by e-cigarettes, let alone the fact that they are already widely accepted as being a gateway into smoking for youngsters attracted by the nicotine marketing machine.

OK, so lets understand how e-cigarettes came to be supported by much of the anti-tobacco establishment.

Safer nicotine delivery systems such as e-cigarettes were first supported by those in the medical and scientific establishment who realized in the late 1990s and early 2000s that programmes based on NRT (nicotine replacement therapy) were completely failing to reduce smoking rates. Ironically, some of these individuals were those responsible for the conception and implementation of those failing NRT-based programmes and policies.