ANYONE READING ALLEN CARR????

[jessicaandrebeccasmummy]

Need help.... started it, and not found time to continue. Want to give up smoking, but cant do it on willpower alone- been there done that, and failed.

i smoke like a god damn chimney again after cutting down while pg, and i WANT TO STOP! For one, i cant afford it much longer!!!

So, anyone reading it that can motivate me or anyone read it and its worked?!?

HELP!

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Thanks Mosschops.... im really hoping this will work, but i need to find time to read it - guess i should get my arse off of here but its too addictive!

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Hi there!
I read 3 different versions! No actually 4
I read the bog standard one. Didn't work. Read the really big one and was bored rigid. Then I read the one aimed at women alongside a tiny pocket size one I kept in my bag. While they never had an instant effect, it all went in, and when I did stop, a lot of what he said kept coming back to me. It was what kept me on the straight and narrow so to speak. So a lot of failed attempts but got there in the end very easily. BTW I was a 10 a day (give or take) girl for about 16 years. Also one of those people that smoked first thing in the morning which are the hardest to quit.

Now I have absolutely no desire to smoke at all ever.
Do you want a copy of Alan Carr? You can have mine!

WOW!

Well done you.... Ive got the "the only way to give up smoking permenantly" one - could i "borrow" the women one, would refund postage costs.

Certainly. You have my email address I think, so let me know your address and I'll route it out.
I guess my best advice is what a lot of smoking gurus say, Never give up giving up. I really thought I would never do it and in the end it was dead easy. I do feel so much better. I have nicer skin and hair, don't smell of stale fags,can power-walk so much quicker...The list is endless.
The main thing is, don't beat yourself up if you relapse because you can always try again.

Posey- thank you!!!

I read the small one, a couple of days after I had stopped smoking. I know for a fact that I couldn't have lasted without the book. Dh stopped about 5 days after me, so I shared the wisdom from the book with him. It's been 13 years now. One thing that helped me was I no longer had the inner dialogue of 'will I won't I' (have a cigarette), I had stopped smoking and that was that.

I felt that I was duped by the tobacco companies, and the nicotine replacement companies, all of whom were telling me how hard it was to give up, and I was determined that they wouldn't fool me again.

thanks for that - this is all so positive - really must get back into the book - as soon as Soapstar Superstar is finished, i WILL read some more!

Zaphod - thats one of the things Alan Carr gets really annoyed at, the fact that tobacco companies and a lot of giving up "experts", doctors etc warn you that it will be really hard.
All part of the brainwashing I'm afraid.

BTW Jessicaandrebeccasmummy, did you get the reply I sent to your CAT message after the Christmas swap?

Jessica-hi me again,I read Allen Carr-The Easy Way to stop smoking,it was a small slim paperback book,so not long to read and carrying on smoking while you are reading it.
I had book in one hand,fag in another.

Allen Carr is THE best for helping to get off the fags,as he looks at the whole thing a different way,also whyquit.com which charlie cat suggests is fantastic.
It is not easy,the main thing is in your BRAIN something really has to shift.You really have to WANT to do it.
I stopped for 3 years-started again
I stopped for 18 months-started again
and since December 2005 I have been stop,start.

I have now gone 15days.

Dont beat yourself up about the whole thing

Got your email. Will bung it in the post tomorrow.

so im doing this alone then!!!

You have all given up already!!! HELP ME PEOPLE!

No you are not doing this alone,I am really TRYING to give up too!!!

read it, stopped , brilliant

but you are 15 days into it!!! I havent even started! (Still smoking like a chimney!!)

YEH- but i have just had a fag and feel as sick as a dog!

lol.... well there you go - you dont need to smoke now - how many were you smoking anyway?!

get the book, and read it as quickley as pssible.

how quick is as quick as poss?!

I read it sixteen years ago, and stopped smoking a few months later - it really helped. The bit that helped me most was picturing my inner Nicotine Monster: so every time I felt a craving, I knew it was the NM wanting FOOD so it could GROW.....and that if I didn't feed it, the cravings would get smaller and smaller and die.
I'm a visual person, so the mental image helped no end - plus, I was ready.
Loads and loads of luck to the giveruppers, congrats to the givenuppers, and death to the Nicotine Monsters!

Was on 10 roll ups a day-big problem i have is that dp smokes.So i am putting all the blame on him for the fag i have just had!!!!!!!!!
its my own fault really

DH smokes too - we are on roll-ups most of the month (we splash out at the beginning) but im on more than that.... god i feel so crap about it, but its the only thing getting me through the day which is really bad. I need to do it for my girls if no-one else x

Exactly-the reason i am so wanting not to smoke is for dd and ds

so thats why ive just asked DH to roll me a ciggie is it?! OH GOD!