Only way to stop smoking permanently pdf

I have posted both. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Begin your new life as a non-smoker today. This book will help you: Find the right frame of mind to quit Avoid weight gain Simply and easily stop smoking Enjoy the freedom and choices of all non-smokers From Allen Carr, the worldwide bestselling author of Easy Way to Stop Smoking.

And I haven't smoked since. Allen Carr. Author of the most successful self-help stop smoking method of all time, Allen Carr here further exposes the traps of smoking and provides smokers with the. However, it wasn't the hypnotherapy itself that enabled him to stop — "I succeeded in spite of and not because of that visit" and "I lit up the moment I left the clinic and made my way home The Only Way To Stop Smoking Permanently Great reviews for the book.

I might even adopt an aggressive attitude. It all depended upon the nature of the attack. But now it was almost as if I were suddenly released from the confines of my own mind and body and was able to observe myself as a non-smoker would see me.

As you can imagine, the object of my observations did not exactly fill me with pride. I tried to imagine that Joyce was the smoker and I the non-smoker. I pride myself on having a good imagination. I could see her wheezing and coughing whilst cooking a meal, fag dangling from the lips with an inch of ash about to drop into the saucepan. I could picture the nicotine stains on her fingers, teeth and lips. I could picture her dull eyes and grey complexion.

I could imagine the foul smell of her breath, and because I love her dearly, I believe that I would have tolerated these things. I could have tolerated all the money that she was wasting. I even believe that I would have put up with all the phoney arguments that she would have made to justify her stupidity.

I hope that I would have been as tolerant towards her as she had been to me all those dark years. I began to think about those people born with terrible disabilities like Downs Syndrome and Thalidomide, and how they seem to rise above such handicaps. What chance do you think you would have of obtaining a decent job if you were confined to a life in a wheelchair? Roosevelt from holding the No. There are people like Simon Weston, the soldier that suffered multiple burns in the Falklands.

No way. He has since married and is already a television star and modern day folk hero. Another classic example was Christopher Nolan, the young Irish boy who spent his first 15 years as a vegetable. His condition was such that he had no means of communication. The natural tendency was to treat him like an imbecile. But inside that broken body was an intelligent brain.

Eventually he learned to communicate by typing with a stick attached to his forehead. He even wrote a bestselling book. Can you imagine being treated as a vegetable for 15 years, when you are in fact highly intelligent, but not able to communicate? You would have thought that once Christopher had learned to communicate, his first message would be: Please put me quietly to sleep.

But no, just like all other creatures on the planet, no matter how underprivileged, deformed or ugly they might appear in the eyes of other creatures, the first rule of nature is: SURVIVAL!

Christopher wanted to live, because whether we like it or not, life is precious. Sadly, Christopher is not with us today, but I hope that wherever he is, he is able to appreciate the marvellous legacy that his example left to mankind. The sheer stupidity of what I had been doing suddenly hit me. There were people like Christopher Nolan, born with massive disabilities, and yet able somehow to surmount them.

Then there was me, not only privileged to be born, but lucky enough to be born with a complete and healthy mind and body. There I was, slapping the creator in the face, saying: "Thank you for my healthy body.

Why did you waste it on someone like me? I resisted, not because I was too proud to seek help, but because I knew that if it were possible for me to stop, I would have already done so.

Now, I am aware that when I describe the depth of degradation that I had descended to, most readers, particularly younger smokers or casual smokers will be consoling themselves with the thought that: I would never let it get to that stage, and even if I did, I would stop. I am also aware that you might be forming the impression that this book will be umpteen pages of blood and gore and that I am going to attempt to frighten you into quitting.

I promise you that I have nothing but good news for you. You might also be forming the impression that the actual key that Joyce pressed to open my mind, was the sudden realisation that I was destroying my own body.

Not so, I was fully aware that smoking was killing me. That had been blatantly obvious for years. I had merely closed my mind to the fact. Let me make it quite clear, at this stage the key word had done absolutely nothing to change my views about smoking, it had merely pricked my conscience which in turn lead to my agreeing to seek help.

I knew that the hypnotherapist would not be able to help me. But I thought that if I go through the ritual, I could come home, conscience completely clear, and say: "You see, it was a complete waste of time and money.

Will you now just accept that, whether I like it or not:. People that know Joyce will confirm that her name signifies her nature. She is a bundle of optimism and Joy. But I believe that she too was anticipating bad news. These were the actual words that I greeted Joyce with on my return. Her reaction disappointed me. No words were spoken, the look clearly conveyed the message. I think that she believed that the hypnotherapist had put me into some sort of trance and forgotten to take me out of it.

For years after I had stopped smoking and had successfully helped to cure thousands of other smokers, I think she still feared that one day I would awake from that trance and that again she would see me with that awful fag in my mouth.

Her disbelief was understandable. She had witnessed umpteen previous failed attempts to stop. She remembered how I had once looked her straight in the eye and blatantly lied when I assured her that I had stopped but was secretly smoking.

Strangely it never particularly worried me that I would die because of my smoking. I suppose I believed that I chose to take the risk, but I hated the thought that I would never be able to stop:.

What you will find difficult to believe is that before I extinguished that last cigarette, I was already a non-smoker and already knew that I would never have the need or desire to smoke again. The incredible revelation was: not only was it ridiculously easy, but I actually enjoyed the whole process right from extinguishing that final cigarette. An additional bonus was, far from gaining weight, 6 months after I extinguished that final cigarette, I was 28 pounds lighter.

What you will find even more difficult to believe, is that my discovery is equally effective for any smoker, including YOU. Indeed it is equally effective for any form of chemical dependency, including alcohol and heroin. My visit to the hypnotherapist was on 15th. July and was the most important day in my life. From here on I will refer to it as Independence Day. You might well be tempted to rush off to the nearest hypnotherapist. I am loathe to run down the man that I consulted, because I would be dead now if had not made that visit.

But I succeeded in spite of and not because of that visit. Later I will explain more about the mysteries surrounding hypnosis which will enable you to decide whether or not it can be of service to you. Although I did not fully comprehend everything that happened to me on that day, I was fully aware that I had made a discovery that every smoker was secretly searching for.

A few months spent testing the method out on friends and relatives confirmed my expectations. So much so that I took the momentous decision of quitting my job as a Chartered Accountant and set up a full time clinic helping others to escape from the slavery of nicotine. We started off with a small ad in the local paper.

Our first paying customer was Peter Murray, famous disc jockey and TV personality. The whole experience was a nightmare, I had lost my voice and I was in a blue funk. I dread to think what he thought of that first session, and I never had the courage to phone him to find out. All I do know is that it is usually my job to relax the client, on this occasion it was the other way around. I honestly believe that had he not been the pleasant personality that he is, I would never have had the courage to continue.

From that rather inauspicious start, my confidence grew and so did our success rate. We soon found that we had no need to advertise. Smokers were flying in from all over the world solely because of the recommendation they had received from successful clients.

I was the therapist and Joyce was typist, telephonist, receptionist and did all the other jobs that needed to be done. After 2 years we could no longer treat the number of smokers that sought our help, so I set out my method in a book:. I have always thought that a good title is an absolute essential for any book, yet I cannot even remember pondering about the title, it seemed obvious. I did however find the book very difficult to write, with the notable exception of the now legendary Chapter My only expectation of the book was that it would help smokers to escape from the nicotine trap.

It came as a pleasant surprise when I started to receive hundreds of grateful letters from ex-smokers and their families.

I have received very few letters from smokers that failed to stop after reading the book. This is what you would expect, we all tend to throw tantrums when the instruction manual is incoherent, but how many of us take the trouble to write to complain about it? Surprisingly, even the letters received from failures are complimentary, the criticisms being mainly restricted to suggestions on how the book might be improved.

I find instruction manuals particularly annoying nowadays. Although as a nation, the Japanese tend to be heavy smokers, the book has not yet been translated into Japanese. Perhaps I can get even by translating it myself. This personal computer business is another pain. My friends and relatives that had one assured me how easy modern computers are.

They are about as user friendly as a four pound club hammer landing on your big toe! User friendly! The instruction manual alone was larger than the complete works of Shakespeare.

The stupid thing was, that I sensed that I was being sucked in. They were all a tiny bit too enthusiastic about their computers. Of course they were! They reminded me of teenage smokers that learn to get over the foul smell and taste, then realising that they are now hooked, try to convince their non-smoking friends of the great pleasure of being a smoker.

Unfortunately, they all too often succeed! I never see him nowadays. He spends all night playing with it. Of course he does! Endless, sleepless nights trying to understand the damn thing. Modern technology is a marvellous thing but it does have its drawbacks. I remember the good old days when there were only 2 warning lights on a car, and a radio only required 2 knobs. I strongly recommend that you get one. The letters that I have received have repaid, a thousand times over, the considerable time and effort it took me to write the book.

It seemed a strange question to me. I only wrote the book because I had important knowledge to communicate. Having completed my task, where was the need to write another book? So why am I writing one now? There are several reasons, part good news part bad. I estimated that it would take about 10 years to cure the world of smoking. No doubt, like Joyce, you also suspect that I need to be certified.

But just reflect for a moment. Imagine that I had discovered a cure for lung cancer. So how long would it take for me to prove that I had in fact found the magic button? But imagine you had been imprisoned for nearly a third of a century, within an escape proof cell that had a combination lock, but no one knew the combination.

Neither your jailors nor your fellow prisoners. Then suppose you hated that prison more than the other prisoners and that you had devoted most of your time trying to discover the combination. That is virtually what happened to me. Perhaps you would be kind enough to spread the message and rewrite all the text books. It was no real problem.

Columbus proved his point by sailing around the world. I would prove my point by demonstrating to those smokers that consulted me, that it is ridiculously easy to stop smoking.

They would then tell their friends, who would come rushing around for my magic cure. I should make it clear that I have no mystical powers. A telephone would be magic to stone age man. There is no such thing as magic. I thought it would take about 4 years to prove that my method was the magic cure that smokers had been praying for.

I was over prudent. In fact we achieved that object to our satisfaction within 2 years. When I decided to give the world the benefit of my knowledge by writing the book, I approached a famous publisher, explained to them that I had discovered a method that would enable any smoker to stop easily, that I wanted to put it into book form, and that I had selected them for the task.

In fact they begrudgingly agreed to read the manuscript. Needless to say I got nowhere, but I learned a lesson. Everyone knows that Nick Faldo is a great golfer. Some of my converts might have suspected it, but I was the only one that knew it. The experience with the publisher convinced me that I would be wasting my time trying to court others. I had heard stories about talented writers spending years trying to get their work published.

So I decided to print the book myself. The problem was that at that stage, curing smokers was nothing like as lucrative as being a Chartered Accountant. The fact is, we were struggling to keep the wolf from the door. No problem, I had a successful and wealthy brother, the leading insurance broker in High Wycombe, who is always on the lookout for profitable schemes. I thought that I could kill 2 birds with one stone, provide him with a profitable investment and, because he knew that I was successfully curing smokers, and that I was of sound mind and body, it would save me the time and trouble of having to explain to financiers what a sound investment it was.

Unfortunately I failed to convince my brother that the book would be a sure-fire winner. His final body blow was: if you get any good ideas be sure to let me know! Ironically, the situation reminded me of that classic monologue by Bob Newhart. The theme is Sir Walter Raleigh. This is an edited extract:. What do you do with it Walt? It has several uses? What are its uses Walt? You can take a pinch of tobacco and sniff it up your nose?

Why would you do that Walt? It makes you sneeze! Yes I imagine it would. What else can you do with it Walt? You shred it, roll it up in a piece of paper and stick it—No! Oh, you stick in your mouth. So you can set fire to it? Then you breathe the fumes into your lungs?

It seems to me you could just stand over your fireplace and do that. Ironic that Walt was regarded as an imbecile for believing that people could be persuaded to smoke, and I was being regarded with equal incredulity for believing they could be persuaded not to. The experience with the publisher was merely a slight set back to my ego, however the incident with my brother was a real bone-crusher.

And I think this is true for many other smokers out there. Vaping allows you to continue this whilst also giving up smoking. Lose weightwithout dieting, calorie-counting or using will-power. It's true! Allen Carr's eating plan allows you to enjoy eating, savour flavours andlose weight. This book brings the original Easyway concept bang up do date, incorporating lessons that have been learned from those who teach in the global network of Allen Carr clinics.

No one has more experience of helping smokers quit. The contents of this book will give you all the tools you need to help you quit smoking quickly, easily, cheaply, and forever so that you can live the happy, healthy, smoke-free life you've been dreaming of and deserve!

Here Is A Preview Of Allen Carr's Easyway is a global phenomenon. It has helped millions of smokers from all over the world. You'll soon be able to: - Achieve the right frame of mind to quit - Avoid weight gain - Quit without dependence on rules or gimmicks - Enjoy the freedom and choices that non-smokers have in life - Quit without willpower It's time to begin your new life as a non-smoker with Allen Carr's The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently. This is an updated edition of his bestselling guide to giving up smoking.

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What have you got to lose? I read Allen Carr's book and would recommend it to anybody trying to kick the habit' Michael McIntyre 'Achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty-year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle' Anjelica Huston 'Instantly I was freed from my addiction. I found it not only easy but unbelievably enjoyable to stay stopped' Sir Anthony Hopkins.