I dropped the topic of quitting smoking a bit, although there were still quite a few articles in the plans, ranging from informative to personal experience. In the fall of 2017 it will be three years since I quit smoking, which is why I probably stopped remembering this habit, even if in the first months the desire to share the greatest joy never left me. In general, I have decided to finish the work that I started, especially since there will soon be new cycles on health and self-development. Something that I have already achieved, something that I will achieve in parallel with the readers. I really hope I have started writing a little better in recent years which means that this and other articles will be seen by people who find them useful.
Many people began their attempts to quit smoking with Allen Carr's book "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking".Why buy when you can just read online or download from torrent? This is your right, but I am still for the legal methods, as well as spending some money you will have a great incentive to read the book to the end. I'll write about buying or stealing a book at the end of the article. And now I would like to talk a little about the methods described in this book.
When you first get your hands on Allen Carr's book "The Easiest Way to Quit Smoking", it feels like it's in your bag, now you will read a smart book and your life will get better. The promised way is easy, which means you don't have to work at all. It might as well be so. Some have managed to give up their bad habit just by reading to the end. Unfortunately, the habit returned to many after a short time. And all because they did not read carefully, fluently and not thoughtfully, perhaps relying on Russian. By the way, the author of the book is a foreigner, so you shouldn't count on 100% success.
I wrote in a separate article on other books on the same topic that will help you get rid of other bad habits. Don't fool yourself into hoping that quitting will solve all your problems. In fact, you will only take the path of self-improvement with confidence in your abilities.
What is the magic of Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking? Is it really in a special writing style? Obviously not. The book helps you reflect on your habit. Show the true face of the enemy, without intimidating with horror stories about various plagues that threaten the smoker, of which there is already a lot of material on the net (in the article: "harm from smoking to the human body" - I tried to revealthis topic as much as possible, without unnecessary horror stories). Allen calls smoking just an imposed need, thanks to which he spends a lot of money to enrich companies. He thinks the state doesn't make an effort to introduce a total ban on tobacco, even though it might, the church doesn't say anything about smoking, even if it's worth it - they just need smokers. Death prematurely, sick people who pay an additional fee for the right to voluntarily self-destruct.
In The Easiest Way to Quit Smoking, Allen Carr points out that essentially there is nothing to quit, you don't give up on something important and useful, you stop paying companies by killing yourself. Remember, as a child, you didn't need to smoke a cigarette after dinner to get extra pleasure, you didn't need to light a cigarette while talking with friends, you felt great right after sleeping. Cigarettes, according to Allen, and it is difficult to argue with him, all this takes away from the smoker, whose life consists of two periods: the desire to smoke and the smoke itself - the only pleasure is to satisfy his need for nicotine, which recurs. immediately, it's worth throwing your butt off. The most surprising thing is that by saving your life from tobacco, you will get rid of the need to consume it, eg. if you stop smoking, you will stop wanting to smoke.
The book is written in a fairly simple and accessible language and has been translated with high quality, so reading it is not only useful, but also enjoyable. So feel free to purchase its electronic or paper version, if the smoking problem has not yet been solved.
Who and why reading Allen Carr's book helps
First of all, The Easiest Way to Quit Smoking book will help those who are really about to quit smoking. I have seriously tuned in and am seeking help where possible, for example, I have personally used the book as an additional source of motivation as well as an opportunity to shift focus from smoking to something else.
According to statistics, around 80% of Allen Carr's readers have quit smoking. But don't think that they are all so weak in character, and that the writer is a great mystic and hypnotist. People start thinking and sooner or later come to the conclusion that quitting smoking is really easy. "In fact, there is nothing to throw away" - so Carr loves to express in his book, all you need to do is stop subjecting yourself to daily torture and poisoning. And to stop, you can pay corporations to destroy your own health.
Therefore, smoking is not won by weak and carefree people, but, on the contrary, by those who think clearly and take care of their own health and that of their children. A high percentage cannot but rejoice: this means that the world has not yet gone mad and most people still know how to sensibly assess the situation. And even if I, and people like me, quit not ONLY thanks to the book "An easy way to quit smoking", but not without.
Why buy Allen Carr's book
I have come across a theory that the smoking cessation method works until you pay for it. Here an unconscious trigger is triggered, hammered as a child, according to which nothing is given freely and for free, for example the principle of the proverb "you can't easily pull a fish out of a pond". It is very likely that I, like many others, were once exposed to this effect, because the first time I was given the book "An Easy Way to Quit Smoking" friends who wanted to help, so I have not seen any effects sincebook. Likewise, the pills with which at least half of the former smokers quit did not work at the same time, because I also received the first pack for free. As a result, the process of quitting smoking dragged on for five long years from 2009 to 2014. However, I'll tell my story another time.
Among other things, as a legal blogger defending compliance with the law and the "start with yourself" principle, he is simply not ready to give advice on theft. On the other hand, I believe that any work after the author's death must become the property of the public. So decide for yourself, the main thing is not to read online. Most likely, a single reading of the book won't be enough, so it's always good to have it on hand for every new attempt.
For example, it took me three full reads, the last one was quite a distraction from the urge to smoke, but extremely effective. I read that you can smoke at any moment, I had a pack of cigarettes against all advice, I knew I could give up on my plans at any time, the stronger and more reassuring I became in my desire to quit smoking. My claims and motivations worked, and Allen Carr's penny-dumped book "An Easy Way to Quit Smoking" worked. Although the method was not the simplest, the goal was achieved and the next step was taken.