Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking

Allen Carr helped me to quit smoking. He debunks many of the myths that keep smokers smoking. He shows how we forfeit health, energy, wealth, peace of mind, confidence, courage, self-respect, happiness and freedom for no good reason. He debunks the myth of withdrawal pains. Here is a link to the PDF file of Allen Carr’s Easy Way.

Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking

A few thins to remember about smoking:

“The beautiful truth is – there is nothing to give up. Once you purge that little monster from your
body and the brainwashing from your mind, you will neither want cigarettes nor need them.”

He also writes quite rightly:

“Not only is life better as a non-smoker but it is infinitely more enjoyable. I do not only mean you will be healthier and wealthier. I mean you will be happier and enjoy life far more.”

And as to the fear that haunts smokers at the idea of quitting:

“Non-heroin addicts don’t suffer that panic feeling. Heroin doesn’t relieve the feeling, on the
contrary, it causes it. Non-smokers don’t feel miserable if they are not allowed to smoke after a meal.
It’s only smokers that suffer that feeling. Nicotine doesn’t relieve it, on the contrary it causes it.”

Allen Carr does not use fear to motivate you to quit. Fear is caused by smoking. Allen Carr uses the joy of being free of the weed to motivate you:

I can understand why the congestion and the risks of contracting lung cancer didn’t help me to quit. I could cope with the former and block my mind to the latter. As you are already aware, my method is not to frighten you into quitting, but the complete opposite – to make you realize just how more enjoyable your life will be when you have escaped.

And as for cutting down or having that single cigarette:

“Get it firmly in your mind there is no such thing as just one cigarette. It is a chain reaction that will last the rest of your life unless you break it.”

With regard to the idea that quitting smoking is hard, Allen Carr writes the following:

• “There is nothing to give up. There are only marvelous positive gains to achieve.

• Never see the odd cigarette. It doesn’t exist. There is only a lifetime of filth and disease.

• There is nothing different about you. Any smoker can find it easy to stop.”

And with regard to the misery non-smokers allegedly suffer:

“You do not need to smoke. Life is infinitely sweeter without cigarettes.”

The beauty of the Easy Way is this:

“It didn’t occur to me until long after the man had left that my instruction to keep smoking is the real beauty of my method. You can continue to smoke while you go through the process of stopping. You get rid of all your doubts and fears first, and when you extinguish that final cigarette you are already a non-smoker and enjoying being one.”

With regard to the alleged difficulty of quitting, and the black depression some ex-smokers suffer, Allen Carr’s Easy Way avoids that by removing the alleged benefits of smoking. He writes:

“I’ve spent most of my life trying to stop smoking and I’ve suffered weeks of black depression. When I finally stopped I went from a hundred a day to zero without one bad moment. It was enjoyable even during the withdrawal period, and I have never had the slightest pang since. On the contrary, it is the most wonderful thing that has happened in my life.”

If you have read Allen Carr’s Easy Way in the past and have relapsed into smoking, you may need to read the longer and more detailed The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently.