How to quit smoking for good by mrsnancygreen

"I read a book, I looked at all of them but this one spoke to me"

How I did it: I followed the instructions in the book to the letter. I don't even believe this.... I got that comment from suwarian and I never tossed this email promising myself I would read it when I was ready to smoke. He was only one of a few people from 43 Things to ever even respond to anything I've written on there.Last month I went to Barnes and Nobles, I told them that I had read three books on quitting smoking and that they were too hard that I was looking for the "easy way" to quit smoking, like, "quit smoking for dummies" for example. The woman said, there IS a quit smoking for dummies but let's see what else we got, she pulled down seven books and I picked up the first book and it was the Allen Carr book Easy Way the girl hadn't left yet when I screeched... LOOK, IT'S THE EASY WAY, DIDN'T I JUST COME IN HERE ASKING FOR THE EASY WAY? I glanced through it and said, yup, looks like the right book, but continued to look through the others starting with the "quit smoking for dummies" looked through the other five breifly bought the allen carr book and quit smoking! In my subconscious mind I knew that if I read the email from the person from 43 things who told me that if I wanted to quit smoking for good to do something "I forgot what was it" that it would say to read the book, I just went to the email today and lo and behold!!!!!!!! I still didn't read the whole thing yet, the whole thing has been exactly like magic. I'm using the book to quit other things too, just changing the wording it's an amazing method and I truly appreciate him telling people about it, including me  who probably carried their advise in the subconscious. Peace. I'm going to read their blog now...I also suggest you do if you want to quit smoking

Lessons & tips: Read the book

Resources: Allen Carr's The Easyway Method


 

Oct 25, 2008, 09:25PM PDT | 4 comments


Comments:

olivep WAG MORE, BARK LESS

congratulations

I am so glad I just read this entry of yours. I was moved after reading the other.

What i want to know more aobut if you have the time is can you just put in one paragraph or one sentence even, the essence of alan carr’s idea to show me whether i should go and buy the book.

I did strat reading it once. And will do it again if there is what i want to know.

I didn’t use a book to quite smoking but now i am trying to encourage other people to give up other addictions like bulimia and self-harming.

I myself am addicted to the net but have just managed to regroup because i found more commitment and motivation for my tohers things. But it took a rough night on my regular forum to make do it.

Thanks if you can find the time to send me a quick message.

Oct 25, 2008, 11:04PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

mrsnancygreen MISSING HUBBY

summing it up

well it’s reverse psychology actually…..he tells you not to stop smoking through the whole book when your aim IS to stop smoking and you get aggravated because you want to stop and you want to know how but he doesn’t tell you how…by the end of the book you are dying to stop and you do like magic.. and other things that surround it I can only accredit to magic because I swear, I tried everything else, fighting fire with fire, doesn’t work, willpower doesn’t work, I think he works on your REBELLION!!! Therefore reverse psychology, he even says, after you read the book, you don’t have to quit if you don’t want to, he always gives you the choice which you already know you want to quit or you wouldn’t have picked up the book, so he sort of makes you look stupid too.. I don’t know, it’s weird…it works..

Oct 26, 2008, 11:14AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

mrsnancygreen MISSING HUBBY

summing it up using it for other things

I am actually re-reading the book to quit marijuana, as I read the book I write in a journal how it applies to marijuana, like for example the lies I have fed into like, marijuana is not addicting, it’s used as a prescription, another example the shame you feel, feed into that shame! Why do you feel shame. I think mostly what made me think is this…OTHER PEOPLE ARE LIVING PERFECTLY FINE AND DON’T NEED THIS OR THAT TO RELAX OR DEAL WITH ISSUES THEY DEAL WITH IT WITHOUT A CRUTCH…

Oct 26, 2008, 11:17AM PDT | Respond to this

olivep WAG MORE, BARK LESS

Thanks for replying. I really was not expecting that answer. That is pretty clever. I can see how it works.

For me what i did was use will power but without the pressure. I have tried that once and failed. The last time, i said to myself at hte beginning of the year, one day this year, and probably even the next time i get sick because i could never smoke when i had a cold as i always got such bad pharygitis/laryngitis. Smoking made my chest feel like it was full of knives. I went to bed for two days and when i got up i had no cravings. There was more to it than that but that got me over the hard part.

I hope it works for your efforts to give up dope too. Maybe you could suggest he write one for that. With my quit cigs. I had replacements thigns but healthy ones. I took up fitness and a good diet. I had a friend who quit smoking so she could complete her formal studies – the two don’t mix. But unfortunatley she went back to it after she graduated.

I saw in the book shop he has written one for overeating i think.

And don’t forget, just in case you get caught out sometime, YOU CAN NEVER HAVE ANOTHER CIGARETTE AGAIN. Cause that is the beginning of the end. You can not afford to have one cigarette or even one puff, if you want to stop for the rest of your life.

Best wishes.

Oct 28, 2008, 06:08AM PDT | Respond to this


 

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