Have you read Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking??

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Huge stretch of AIBU here but have posted elsewhere a no response...

I'm just about to start reading this, I quit while I was pregnant but quickly started back up after separating from my husband. I am now looking to kick the habit for good and wonder if anybody else has read this.

Did you rate it?

And most importantly, did it work for you?

Thanks

i read a bit of this on jan 7th 2013 and havent had a puff since , only a few day off one year now , well worth a read .

Didn't work for me. Nothing worked until I got pregnant.

Yep.

Read it ten years ago, quit instantly, no looking back. Easiest thing I ever did.

Just finished his drinking one on NYE as I've got majorly into health and fitness recently and decided I wanted to give up booze forever. So far so good!

I read it a few years ago and it did work. I thought it hadn't, but then about a week after I finished the book it suddenly clicked, it was very weird. I was walking through town and just thought all of a sudden "FFS, this is stupid!" and fished my tobacco / papers etc out of my bag and dropped them in the nearest bin. So a delayed reaction, I suppose!

Anyway I stayed quit for 18 months with no cravings or regrets and then started again for no apparent reason. The book did not work a second time. I quit again earlier this year using an E-cig.

It took me three goes, but I got there in the end. I started with the Easy Way to Stop Smoking, then The Easy Way for Women to stop smoking, then finally the Only Way to Stop Smoking. Haven't smoked for 8 years now, best thing I've ever done.

The tone and repetition are infuriating. Works though!

Worked for me too!

Doesn't work for everyone but the success rate is pretty bloody impressive. The NHS should prescribe copies of this to people trying to stop smoking rather than their stupid cessation courses. And don't start me on the nicotine replacement industry...........

It worked for me, I was disgusted with myself that I found it so easy to stop after reading it.

I stopped nearly 7 years ago and have never looked back.

You have nothing to lose OP

..and so much to gain

I thought it was shit.
Paul McKenna worked for me though

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mosschops is your big news out yet???

ladybeagle me too! I quit last February without him.

No

Well you should have done what I did,I set up a savings plan for 10 years with the money I was spending on cigs £170 per month I'm half way there I've got 10 THOUSAND POUNDS yes thats right 10 THOUSAND POUNDS in the bank just by putting away what I was spending on cigs by the end of that time it will be more than 20K as I have now reinvested the 10K into a higher interest account, so sorry Allen is right you will have more money

That's a great idea Sue. I might do that. I'll need to pay more into a pension too now that I'm probably going to live longer.

It is good, and I did get the 'epiphany' moment where I just stopped. I was having a cigarette at about 4pm, put it out and just didn't smoke again.

However, for me it didn't last long and I only quit for 3 days.

The only thing that stopped me long term was the NHS stop smoking clinic and patches. I stopped for 9 months. I then had a wobble, smoked again for 2 months and I'm now on the e cig (7 weeks in), my new favourite thing.

I have and I got the epiphany moment and I quit about a year and a. (sorry lots of ands)

I did go round for a month saying yippee I'm a non smoker out loud wherever I was even if I was on my own.

It didn't work for me, like others have said it was the attempted brainwashing that I didn't like.

Yep, worked for me! 20 a day for 13 years and quit 15 December 4 years ago.

You have to really want to quit though, I actually did the Alan Carr classes twice in my early 20's which definitely worked but I found the excuse to start again, even though when sparking that first cigarette I knew I didn't really want it.

This time round, I'd hit 30 and was nearing 30 a day and utterly disgusted with myself - read the book, then read it again just to be sure!

Worked like magic.

Thankyou prof

When I had hypnotherapy all I could think about was why the bloke was using such a stupid voice! Eg ' you are feeeeeeeling sleeeeeepy, veeeeery veeeeery sleeeeepy' all the while I was thinking ' no I'm not!'

Read it in a night on holiday in 2006.

Smoke free for 7.5 years now

Didn't work for me...actually wished I'd not read it all the way through and just stopped when it seemed like a good idea...
Read the bit where it says you had to force yourself to have your first fag...actually no I didn't (long story but I was anti smoking - had had a massive argument, had a cigarette and went ohhhhhhhhh....really did calm me down ....) - And I know someone else who had a trauma - child had a really nasty accident - and a neighbour gave them a cigarette (long time ago now) and that was it they were hooked for 20 yrs (quit only after being in ICU for 3 weeks, then hospital for 6 weeks -unrelated to smoking)...