Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking

The whole business of smoking is like wearing tight shoes just to obtain the pleasure you feel when you take them off.

Smokers’ lives automatically become more stressful because tobacco does not relax you or relieve stress, as society tries to make you believe.
Just the reverse: it actually causes you to become more nervous and stressed.

Are habits difficult to break?
In the UK we are in the habit of driving on the left side of the road.
Yet when we drive on the Continent or in the United States, we immediately break that habit with hardly any aggravation whatsoever.
It is clearly a fallacy that habits are hard to break.

So why do we find it difficult to break a habit that tastes awful, that kills us, that costs us a fortune, that is filthy and disgusting and that we would love to break anyway, when all we have to do is to stop doing it?
The answer is that smoking is not habit: IT IS NICOTINE ADDICTION!
That is why it appears to be so difficult to ‘give up’.

believe smoking relieves boredom.
This is also a fallacy.
Boredom is a frame of mind.
There is nothing interesting about a cigarette.

Smoking is not a habit or a pleasure. It is drug addiction and a disease.

Try to see it another way: the ‘habit’ is a continuous chain for life, each cigarette creating the need for the next. When you start the ‘habit’ you light a fuse. The trouble is, YOU DON’T KNOW HOW LONG THE FUSE IS. Every time that you light a cigarette you are one step nearer to the bomb exploding. HOW WILL YOU KNOW IF IT’S THE NEXT ONE?

Most of us can look back at some illness or accident in our lives when we prayed to get better. (HOW SOON WE FORGET.) By being a smoker you are not only letting rust get in and doing nothing about it; you are systematically destroying the vehicle you need to go through life, and you only get one.

Smokers tend to avoid exercise and get into the habit of shallow breathing in order not to cough.

The worst thing we ever suffer from is fear, and the greatest gain you will receive is to be rid of that fear.

greatest gains from stopping are psychological, and for varying reasons they include:

The return of your confidence and courage
Freedom from the slavery
Not to have to go through life suffering the awful black shadows at the back of your mind, knowing you are being despised by half of the population and, worst of all, despising yourself