Alan Carr's EasyWay To Stop Smoking

I went on the one of the "clinic" sessions years ago when our company's sales director offered to pay for anyone who wanted to go - I stopped for about 7 months, without any real problems, then when I was living in a shared house, i got back into smoking almost by accident, and suddenly I was back where I started.

I'd always had his thought in the back of my mind that I didn't want to smoke when I got "older" but had never really defined what that was (a classic bit of procrastination!) but when my GF and I found out we had a baby on the way approx 4.5 years ago and a lot of other things were going on in my life (new house, moving the full length of the country etc) it suddenly hit me that "older" was now, and once I was really ready to quit the book was very easy to use and I've not had a cigarette since - and I can honestly say that I've not craved one in all that time. Still like the smell though strangely (freshly lit, not stinking on clothes!)

I think if you are ready mentally to quit (whether you know it or not), the book is a great tool to use as it makes it incredibly easy, but if you are not in that " ready to quit" place mentally, then you will still struggle.
 
~J~ said:
I want to stop smoking, but I enjoy it. It's not as if I wake up on a morning coughing and spluttering, or run for a bus and get out of breath and think "damn those ciggies". But I do actually enjoy it.

I smoke Amber Leaf, costs about £2.60 and that's with papers, and only buy two packets a week so that's £5.20 a week on cigs. The stop smoking aids are nearly 3 times as much as that so whilst it's common sense to say stopping smoking is good for me, it's just harder when I know I'd be worse off financially if I took the alternatives.
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you may be worse off financially when you start using the stop smoking aids, but if you manage to quit, then you wont be spending anything on tobaco or stop smoking aids, so in the long run you will be better off financially.

3x the price for a few weeks or months, however long it takes you can be better then £5.20 per week for the rest of your life.
 
Read this recently , hasn't worked perfectly but far better than my previous attempts.

Have slipped up on a few occasions (all whilst drinking ... ) am determined not to slip up again, read the book through once more :p
 
Azagoth said:
I did it the cheap and easy way! I stopped buying fags and smoking them!
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This and I dont understand all the bull that people say about it not being that easy....

Most people who talk about quitting don't actually want to quit, they just like the social pat on the back advice about it.


here is all the advice you need to quit smoking:
1.) Throw away any existing packets you have in the bin NOW..as in NOW
2.) Don't buy any cigarettes
3.) Don't borrow/crash/share any cigarettes
4.) Pat yourself on the back and reward yourself with something at the end of the day when you go without them
5.) Do something else in place of when you normally smoke (just NOT eating)
6.) Avoid the social situations with other smokes (lead them by being in the non-smoking crowd)
7.) There is no seven as you just quit!!!

I went from 20 - 30 a day after smoking for 4 years to zero and did it over night because there is no other way to quit smoking than STOPPING RIGHT NOW!
 
This book worked for me , i have the willpower of a jellyfish and was smoking when reading this book (which he recommends by the way).
From 40 woodbines a day to 0 after this book .
Had to read it twice though (must be thick).
 
I used to be a reasonably average smoker - 10 a day or so unless I was DJing then I'd go through a pack in a night. The best way I stopped was to remove myself from the situations where I felt the need to so I stopped drinking and partying for a few months, was easy from there.
 
PoD said:
This and I dont understand all the bull that people say about it not being that easy....

Most people who talk about quitting don't actually want to quit, they just like the social pat on the back advice about it.


here is all the advice you need to quit smoking:
1.) Throw away any existing packets you have in the bin NOW..as in NOW
2.) Don't buy any cigarettes
3.) Don't borrow/crash/share any cigarettes
4.) Pat yourself on the back and reward yourself with something at the end of the day when you go without them
5.) Do something else in place of when you normally smoke (just NOT eating)
6.) Avoid the social situations with other smokes (lead them by being in the non-smoking crowd)
7.) There is no seven as you just quit!!!

I went from 20 - 30 a day after smoking for 4 years to zero and did it over night because there is no other way to quit smoking than STOPPING RIGHT NOW!
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Try that after 15 years, its not quite that simple
 
I quit smoking when my son was born 2 years ago, its was tough, and I still think about having a smoke now 2 years later, but then I think about my son and that helps. I quit drinking the same time also which helps a lot, funny I dont miss a drink at all, but smoking I still do miss.
 
Workplace invites Alan Carr clinic around to our office every three months. My manager forced me to go even though i said i didnt want to quit (he said try it any way & was the morning away from the desk :cool:). It was very interesting (she had a suit case FULL of cigs of all kind :eek:). Didnt help my self because it was clearly from other people who quit over the years (pick from the top i thought but really...no)

Didnt quit, felt like i wanted to argue each case with her but didnt want to ruin it for the other two attending.

I would go to it if you 'want' to quit, otherwise its pointless
 
Well done!

But... Azagoth permabanned... it's always odd when you a see a familiar name and realise they haven't posted for moons.
 
Devrij said:
Try that after 15 years, its not quite that simple
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I smoked for 15 years and quit cold turkey on December 24th, 2009. Sometimes it really is that simple.

For the record I have never craved nor smoked another cigarette since. I have no idea why it was so easy for me (it was not my first attempt mind you) but I think I was just ready. A lot of people quit due to external pressures (sometimes subconsciously) and don't actually want to quit and in these circumstances it wont work. If you genuinely want to quit, and its for yourself, you will do it.

Just my 2p :)
 
I quit in March of this year having not read the book but I was only ever a casual smoker. Maybe at my worst I was smoking 5 or 6 a day but I can honestly say I never found it difficult to just stop smoking for a week or 2.

I know a few people who've read the book, a close friend swears by it. I think because I was never (what I would regard as) seriously addicted, I'm probably disadvantaged by not reading it, as occasionally I tell myself that if I were to have another ciggy, I wouldn't find it difficult to stop again.

Still getting the occasional cravings but I think it's the jazz cigarettes I miss more than anything. Out of curiosity, did anyone else start smoking cigarettes/roll ups because of other smokable substances?
 
Devrij said:
Try that after 15 years, its not quite that simple
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i did it, it really is. I have no willpower at all. Not smoked for 14 months now.

I looked at the price of 20 marlboro in Budgens and laughed... Just quit.
 
I smoked 10-15 fag's and 3-4 joint's (or more) a day for about 13 years and my chest was starting to feel very bad for it. On new years day 2007 when I woke up at some friends house after a heavy night, I gave away my last 7 Bensons and decided that I would stop smoking anything there and then. It was quite weird because it felt like it took no will power to stop, you just need to REALLY want to stop and make that one decision not to smoke any more. I guess I was lucky in that I found it so easy to stop, it was like I had made such a firm decision in my head that the rest just followed effortlessly.
So, I'm just coming up on 5 years smoke free and I wish anyone trying to kick the habit strength in their decision :)
 
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