Alan Carr's EasyWay To Stop Smoking

To the people saying that smokers think they like cigarretes but really don't, well, its not true.
I like smoking. I like the taste of smoke! I never smoke any other brand except mine and the odd 1 or 2 others because I don't like them. I smoke 2-3 cigs a day, except when I go out to the pub, then they are in the 10s. When I'm sick, I don't smoke, because my throat causes the taste to not be good. I quit whenever I have to (e.g. I wanted to pass some army exam and needed my cardio condition to go up really fast so quit for a month then started as soon as goal was accomplished).
I don't wanna quit. I know i'm hurting myself but it is something I enjoy doing.
I never was and never will be addicted.
 
if you enjoy it and dont want to stop, keep smoking

if you dont enjoy it anymore and want to stop, find whatever method works for you

the most effective, is to just stop..
 
M1k3H said:
To the people saying that smokers think they like cigarretes but really don't, well, its not true.
I like smoking. I like the taste of smoke! I never smoke any other brand except mine and the odd 1 or 2 others because I don't like them. I smoke 2-3 cigs a day, except when I go out to the pub, then they are in the 10s. When I'm sick, I don't smoke, because my throat causes the taste to not be good. I quit whenever I have to (e.g. I wanted to pass some army exam and needed my cardio condition to go up really fast so quit for a month then started as soon as goal was accomplished).
I don't wanna quit. I know i'm hurting myself but it is something I enjoy doing.
I never was and never will be addicted.
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Self brainwashing at its finest
 
Well If this book doesn't help me quit, then I'm lost, I have no willpower whatsoever. It doesn't help the fact my mother smokes constantly in the house, and it's always going to be around me.
 
The easiest way to give up is smoking is by chucking them in the bin they where belong.

It's not hard to give up, a bit of will power and thoughts of having a longer life and not poisoning your internal organs turning them black should be enough.

Unless you want this

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[TW]Sponge;20908105 said:
Yes it is.
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I smoked for ten years and one day decided to chuck my last box away, haven't touched once since, it's not hard.

It's all in the mind, if you find it hard to, then you have no control.
 
10 years of smoking, 7 years clean and never looked back. it was the money for me, i am just to greedy. i decided one day enough was enough and that was it.

At the time i enjoyed smoking, in the morning, after food and when i was drinking it felt like the most rewarding thing i could do, just so so satisfying. now im free of the addiction, of the sense of need i associated with these. i most certainly enjoyed it though and to say no smoker enjoys it is just tosh.


You have to truly want to give up to succeed be it with will power alone or with aids to help. good luck and remember there is reward to success!


starkill3r said:
The easiest way to give up is smoking is by chucking them in the bin they where belong.

It's not hard to give up, a bit of will power and thoughts of having a longer life and not poisoning your internal organs turning them black should be enough.

Unless you want this

Centrilobular_emphysema_865_lores.jpg
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looks like burnt bread pudding mmmmm!
 
When are you pratts bleating on about the "only way" to quit is to just give up? Going on like anyone who needs help to quit isn't man enough or something.

So you gave up unaided. Well done. Now toddle off and be smug with yourself, and let others discuss alternatives to just going "cold turkey".
 
If you smoke then just read this book. If you smoke because you like it and don't want to quit then still read the book, maybe you will want to quit after reading it. No harm done either way right?

Ready it myself a few years ago and became a none smoker straight away, as did my girlfriend (a smoker of 15 years) and my mother (a smoker for around 35 years).

It's often difficult getting people to read it becuase deep down they think that if they start to read it then it's going to be asking them to quit by the end of the book and the idea of quitting scares the hell out of them. Understand that it aims not to make you feel that something is being taken away but rather that something it being given.
 
Dj_Jestar said:
I used to think I enjoyed smoking, now I realise that anyone who says that is actually just conning themselves because of the addiction. :)
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Listening to people who haven't 'quit' and they all say the same things 'It is harder than it sounds, it is harder for me, some people find it harder'.

Well no, anyone can all just quit tomorrow because just quitting isn't about suddenly finding yourself not wanting cigarettes, it is just the ONLY way to have actually STOPPED.
If you are going to smoke 4 a day instead of 10, you haven't quit, you have cut down.

So cut down if you want, but realize and I am not being condescending, that you haven't quit and all you are doing by talking about how you have cut down is giving yourself a pat on the back and then reinforcing your failure to quit when you are still on 4 a day next year or worse back to 10+

If you want to reward yourself in the best way possible, you quit, you stop and you can then say everyday 'I quit smoking' and then sound like one of us smug **** because you are entitled to be!

Stop fighting against the quitters and join them!
 
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After reading all the posts of 'I read this and stopped straight away' this really intrigues me!

I don't even smoke and now I wanna read this!

(also thought thread was about said comedian)
 
I quit with this book 10 years ago, It's quite a revealing book, reminding you about your first cigarette and how much you coughed then had to force the cough down then how smokers short breath as if they take full breaths they'd just splutter and cough all the time.

I think the biggest click for me was the freedom, not having to worry about cigarettes and a lighter and then enough cash to buy more, It's such a release.

I have a few moments where I think I could go a cigarette here but they are usually unusual situations that I used to smoke in rather than an addiction eg lighting a bonfire and prodding it with a stick or waiting in a hide for dusk, other than that I quit straight away after reading the book and never looked back.

How anyone with an ounce of intellect can smoke now baffles me, the cost, the crutch, the stink, the exclusion from public places and the health implications they must be accepting a slow painful smelly penniless suicide
 
Dj_Jestar said:
When are you pratts bleating on about the "only way" to quit is to just give up? Going on like anyone who needs help to quit isn't man enough or something.

So you gave up unaided. Well done. Now toddle off and be smug with yourself, and let others discuss alternatives to just going "cold turkey".
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Someone sounds like they want to quit but can't. :p
 
PoD said:
Listening to people who haven't 'quit' and they all say the same things 'It is harder than it sounds, it is harder for me, some people find it harder'.

Well no, anyone can all just quit tomorrow because just quitting isn't about suddenly finding yourself not wanting cigarettes, it is just the ONLY way to have actually STOPPED.
If you are going to smoke 4 a day instead of 10, you haven't quit, you have cut down.

So cut down if you want, but realize and I am not being condescending, that you haven't quit and all you are doing by talking about how you have cut down is giving yourself a pat on the back and then reinforcing your failure to quit when you are still on 4 a day next year or worse back to 10+

If you want to reward yourself in the best way possible, you quit, you stop and you can then say everyday 'I quit smoking' and then sound like one of us smug **** because you are entitled to be!

Stop fighting against the quitters and join them!
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As above, I already have quit.

However, as I switched to vaping, it blows your point out of the water, as I did give up cigarettes immediately, but continued with a gradual decline of nicotine in the vapour.

The same is true of anyone who uses inhalers, patches, nicotine gum etc. :p

EDIT: And before any smartarse tries to get er.. smart, I no longer vape either! :p
 
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I tried vaping , was on it about 6 months , went straight back on the cigs afterwards . Ended up with twitch in my hands , that went after I stopped vaping.
 
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