Allen Carr - The illustrated easyway to stop smoking: a smokers guide to just how easy it is to quit

This edition published in 2012 by Arcturus Publishing Limited
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Illustrations copyright 2006 Bev Aisbett All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without written permission in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended). Any person or persons who do any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages ISBN: 978-1-84858-657-4 This book is dedicated to my close colleagues Robin Hayley, John Dicey, Madeleine Mason and to EASYWAYs world-wide team of dedicated therapists at our clinics who, without exception, sacrificed highly paid and successful careers to join our cause. Allen Carr To my late Uncle Percy for his long and agonizing struggle with emphysema, which was the tragic result of his simply being a man of his times before anyone knew better. Bev Aisbett ABOUT EASYWAY Allen Carrs hundred-cigarettes-a-day addiction was driving him to despair until, in 1983, after countless failed attempts to quit, he finally discovered what the world had been waiting for the EASY WAY TO STOP SMOKING. His network of clinics now spans the globe, operating in more than 100 cities in over 30 countries.

Contact details for these clinics are given at the end of this book along with a discount voucher redeemable when booking a session at any UK/Worldwide Allen Carrs Easyway Clinic (you wont need it yourself but you are welcome to pass it on to a friend who does). The clinics offer a genuine money-back guarantee based on which the success rate is over 90 per cent. Allen Carrs Easy Way To Stop Smoking method is also available in regular book form, CD Audio Book and DVD. For details of these items, and other books which successfully apply Allen Carrs EASYWAY method to alcohol, weight control, fear of flying and worry, visit www.allencarr.com

Actually, it takes a lot of WILLPOWER to be a committed SMOKER. You need to be able to PUT UP with: ILL HEALTH ISOLATION DISDAIN BAD PRESS COST and BLEAK FUTURE PROSPECTS. WILLPOWER sets up a TRICKY DYNAMIC its called RESISTANCE. Whenever you start FIGHTING something, it tends to get BIGGER. Ever noticed that if you are ANNOYED by something, it seems to TURN UP EVERYWHERE? So, of course, what do you think happens when youre FIGHTING, RESISTING or are NOT ALLOWED TO SMOKE? It becomes ALL YOU THINK ABOUT! The more POWERFUL the reasons for quitting, the more PANICKED you are likely to become about HAVING to quit! If youre repeatedly bombarded with messages of DOOM AND GLOOM, what happens? You feel STRESSED and when stressed, you reach for your CRUTCH. FEAR STRESS SMOKING You want to QUIT but you want to SMOKE! You end up at WAR with yourself.

Maybe you didnt feel READY to quit, but you feel PRESSURED to do so. Someone who cares about you may have given you this book in the hope that you might