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Allen Carr... Stop Smoking Guru.
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I remembered a few years back (maybe last year even) there was a discussion about this guys book.
Here is an official site of his:
http://www.allencarr.co.za/
I read this blog today, after googling for smokes again, rofl.
http://coolz.co.za/?p=63
The guy made sense and it's due to his blog post that I bought the book today.
I bought the illustrated version of the Easy Way to Stop Smoking.
Have any of you read it?
The only thing that bothers me, according to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Carr
The man died in 2006 of Lung Cancer. I've heard this before. People smoke a while (about 8 years for me) and then they stop and a couple of years later they develop cancer.
Am I reading the wrong signs though?
Thanks,
tera
I have read the book and I have stopped smoking 19 months ago. If you read the introduction to the book you will see that he was a heavy smoker and tried several things to stop before eventually doing it his own way. It is not a theoretical book.
I can really recommend that. I can also recommend not doing Nicotine Replacement Therapy, prescription or similar. As he said in the book - smoking is not really a big physical addiction.
Thanks Johan
I appreciate it.I have ordered the book and I should receive it later this month or early next month. I'm looking forward to reading it.
Peder
Hobbit
goodluck teraside!! hope you come right!!
Thanks peder! You're such a bubbly person
It's refreshing to see someone with some sense for a change 
Hosehead
Executive Member
Yep Good luck, terraside. Lord knows I need some too. I'm rather tired of hacking up juicy lung segments day in, and day out. Makes me fearful.Judging from your signatures, I'd have thought they'd have a "healer" in those church group revival meetings? Then I wouldn't have to bother with Allan Carr or Nicorette. The "healer" would just sort of mumble something or maybe he'd shout, then he'd poke me in the chest, I'd fall backwards in a trance (or narcolepsy whichever comes first to me) and I'd be free of coffin nails forever, in his name. Is that how it works?
Hosehead
Executive Member
It's a serious question. You do have these Christian healers do you or don't you? I'm just curious.
My friend. No Christian, anywhere anytime, no matter what he eats or dinks has the power to heal anybody. The only healer is God Almighty. Through God and His power they are able to heal the sick or those afflicted.
You are completely deviating from the purpose of this thread. If your questions were sincere you could have asked them through private messaging.
I fail to see that they are serious or sincere.
Hosehead
Executive Member
Well, for me, Private messaging defeats the purpose of a forum.
But thanks anyway you've answered the question. I wouldn't make a judgement call on what you see as serious or sincere because it just comes across as defensive. Allan Carr's methods work for some but not for others. Trust me on this. I've had his little book on my cistern seat for nearly two years now and I'm still smoking.
Thanks for your opinion on the book Hosehead.
I am not expecting a quick fix method, heck, if I stop smoking after reading a book I will truly be thankful.
My main problem with quitting is the cravings, they cause me to light one up again, which is a bad mistake.
So I got the book today.....
I bought the Illustrated version, which was published last year. It looks like a thick book, but I read it in about 30 minutes, even all the cartoons (which is on each page).
Things that stuck out for me:
If I stub out a cigarette and don't smoke, I am a non smoker. What are the reasons I started smoking?
The reason part is a bit of an issue for me, I know exactly when, where and why I started. I don't feel happy about it, but thinking about it after reading the book, even after reading everything about how I smell and what I do and don't do, I don't and did not feel motivated to quit.
Maybe it's just the pathetic cartoons, or the fact that they say they won't use scare tactics and they do.
I don't have the will power to quit, that's a fact, but reading this book I longed for the "key" to quit smoking on each page, finished the book and was really disappointed that I didn't find it.
So I lit a smoke a bit earlier and here I am, back to square fricken one
Edit: let's try this tera, let's try it
I bought the Illustrated version, which was published last year. It looks like a thick book, but I read it in about 30 minutes, even all the cartoons (which is on each page).
Things that stuck out for me:
If I stub out a cigarette and don't smoke, I am a non smoker. What are the reasons I started smoking?
The reason part is a bit of an issue for me, I know exactly when, where and why I started. I don't feel happy about it, but thinking about it after reading the book, even after reading everything about how I smell and what I do and don't do, I don't and did not feel motivated to quit.
Maybe it's just the pathetic cartoons, or the fact that they say they won't use scare tactics and they do.
I don't have the will power to quit, that's a fact, but reading this book I longed for the "key" to quit smoking on each page, finished the book and was really disappointed that I didn't find it.
So I lit a smoke a bit earlier and here I am, back to square fricken one
Edit: let's try this tera, let's try it
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Ou grote
Honorary Master
I thought you were talking of shrooms or something
Read the book alf! Come now!
Ok. I listened to the audio book.
Over 7 hours of it.
Here I go...
I hope the best for you bro. I still smoke though, but I know you can do it.
Ou grote
Honorary Master
I hope the best for you bro. I still smoke though, but I know you can do it.
1st serious attempt.
Nothing to lose.
charlie_82
Expert Member
My mum went to one of these seminars...
She smoked for 30 odd years, anything between 1 & 4 packs day!
Was even told by the doctor to quit due to risk of emphysema and DEATH, but she couldn't do it.
One Allen Carr seminar and that was it. She hasn't touched a cigarette since, no cravings, no grumpiness, nothing. Just like that!
If it can work for her, I have every bit of confidence in this programme
She smoked for 30 odd years, anything between 1 & 4 packs day!
Was even told by the doctor to quit due to risk of emphysema and DEATH, but she couldn't do it.
One Allen Carr seminar and that was it. She hasn't touched a cigarette since, no cravings, no grumpiness, nothing. Just like that!
If it can work for her, I have every bit of confidence in this programme
killadoob
Honorary Master
You guys seriously think this will make you stop smoking?
Hahaha you are better off getting hypnotized, if you really wanted to stop you would put a cigi down and never touch it again.
Will power. No book will help you.
Zyban would be better.
Anyways GL
Charlie no craving no grumpiness how does that work when your body is calling the shots? Surely she had cravings and grumpiness the first 2/3 weeks?
Hahaha you are better off getting hypnotized
, if you really wanted to stop you would put a cigi down and never touch it again.Will power. No book will help you.
Zyban would be better.
Anyways GL
Charlie no craving no grumpiness how does that work when your body is calling the shots? Surely she had cravings and grumpiness the first 2/3 weeks?
charlie_82
Expert Member
You guys seriously think this will make you stop smoking?
Hahaha you are better off getting hypnotized
Will power. No book will help you.
Zyban would be better.
Anyways GL
Charlie no craving no grumpiness how does that work when your body is calling the shots? Surely she had cravings and grumpiness the first 2/3 weeks?
She said she felt like lighting up out of habit... Like whenever she got into the car, she'd light a cigarette. So she'd naturally look for one and then realise she'd quit. All was fine.
I visited her 1 month after she quit and she was not miserable or grumpy at all. I smoke and she wasn't bothered in the least by my cigarettes.
I swear dude, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it either. She even had some extremely upsetting news 2 weeks after she quit, but didn't start up again.
I'm convinced they do something to you in those seminars without you realising it though. There's no way they went through all the obvious reasonings and that alone worked for her.
SOME ADDED INFO (don't know if it's been mentioned so forgive me):
If you're on Discovery Vitality, the course costs a few hudred rand. Not sure of the exact amount, but under R500. If you're not on Vitality, it costs around R2000.
I'm gonna be moving onto Discovery soon and this is the first thing I'm gonna do.
Hopefully in January, so I'll let you all know how it goes
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Ou grote
Honorary Master
Well 27 hours and no smoke for me yet.
Cravings are feeling good.
I was a pack a day, for around 20 years smoker.
Cravings are feeling good.
I was a pack a day, for around 20 years smoker.