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| Author: Allen Carr
Publisher: Arcturus foulsham
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 44278
Media: Paperback
Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0572028628
Dewey Decimal Number: 362
EAN: 9780572028626
ASIN: 0572028628
Publication Date: December 1, 2002
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 Smoking January 17, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, despite reading this book twice, I still smoke. Allen Carr says that once you read the book and understand the message you will loose the desire to smoke. I wish this was true.
 Not the book I thought it would be January 9, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I was not impressed at all with Allen Carr's Easy Way for Women to Stop Smoking! I read the book all the way through, and when I finished, the only thing I could think was that Mr. Carr is making a lot of money, but not producing a good product. It did not help at all with me. Just saying I am a non-smoker doesn't get it with me! That is basically the premise of the whole book. Don't waste your time reading this book if you really want to quit. I went to a doctor and got a prescription for a pill that really seems to be working. I have smoked for 30 years a pack a day. I quit, but not because of Mr. Carr!
 PHENOMENAL!! January 6, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I practically chain smoked for 32 years ~ but not anymore. I am free and getting healthier by the minute. I still think about a cigarette occassionally, but now I think "Yuck, I wasted half my life doing that!".
If you are even half way serious about quitting smoking then you can do it with this book. Allen un-brainwashes you about how difficult it is. I always wanted and needed something to "flip that switch" in my head and this book does exactly that. My smoking switch is OFF.
So buy it ~ now ~ it's the best 8 bucks you'll ever spend on yourself or your loved ones. I'm so very glad I read this book! 100 stars!
Another Carr success story! January 3, 2007
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
Edit: Just wanted to update, I've now been smoke-free for over two years. Thank you, Alan Carr! I couldn't have done it without you.
I was really addicted to cigarettes. A 20 year habit, and even though I'd desperately wanted to quit for years, each attempt ended in failure. The most I'd managed was just a few months, and that was during my first pregnancy. Three weeks after my daughter was born, I was back at it again. My subsequent pregnancies I tried to quit, but never made it more than a few days. My husband is a vehement non-smoker, and I was desperately ashamed of my habit, and yet the urge was just too strong.
Now in my late 30's, I knew I had to do something. If not for myself, then for my young children. My oldest really wanted me to quit. There was many a time I lectured her about not smoking, with a cigarette between my own fingers, using myself as an example of what not to do and explaining to her all the ways it had made, and was making, my life so much less than it could have been. My two youngest were starting to ask me questions that made me so guilty and uncomfortable, like "Mommy what's that?" and, "Can I put that in my mouth too?" And for our entire married life, I cringed everytime my husband kissed me because I knew he was totally repulsed by the lingering cigarette odor.
So finally I decided this was it. Sure, I'd decided that before, but this time I was more desperate than ever. I went to my doctor and got a prescription for Welbutrin. I knew from an earlier attempt that it did help. You're supposed to take the Welbutrin for two weeks before you quit. I used those two weeks to read Alan Carr's book. (Thank you, Amazon, for making these reviews available. I never would have bought this book had I not read so many great testimonials about it.)
What else can I say? The light bulb went on in my head in a major way! The only way to stop going through nicotine withdrawl was to quit smoking! Shocking, but true. Otherwise, my whole life was tied up in daily small battles with the "nicodemon": at the movies, out with my husband, in church, at family gatherings . . . the only way to be free of the torture of cigarettes was to give them up once and for all, and to realize that they were not helping me to relax, they were in effect keeping me at some level of tension every moment I didn't atively have one in my mouth!
This is my analogy, but it is exactly what Alan Carr explains. Smoking is like having a bad case of poison ivy. When you scratch it, it feels better for a minute, but in the long run you're only helping the poison ivy to spread. The only way to stop itching is to get rid of the poison ivy! And as long as you continue to scratch you will *never* get rid of the poison ivy! You've got to resist the urge to scratch and allow your body to heal. Then you can finally be free once and for all.
Once I really assimilated and believed that, along with many other equally startling revelations Mr. Carr explained, I ended up quitting before I had planned, and have remained smoke free for over 6 months. I am no longer a hypocrite or setting a bad example for my children, or blowing off questions I can't answer. And my husband is more than happy to kiss me now! ;-) Sure there are still times I want a cigarette, but thanks to reading Mr. Carr's book I can honestly say that I know I am happier and better off smoke-free than I ever was having even the most satisfying cigarette dangling out of my mouth. To bring back the poison ivy analogy: Remembering with fondness and longing how great that cigarette after dinner tasted is like remembering with fondness how good it felt to scratch that really itchy poison ivy! Sure it brought relief, but who in their right mind would want the torture of poison ivy just to experience the relief of scratching it? In order to truly enjoy a cigarette like you did when you were a non-smoker, you have to first get yourself re-addicted to nicotine. Otherwise, smoking is like scratching yourself when you're not itchy. Sure, maybe you could get some small (very small) pleasure from it, but at the risk--no--near *certainty*-- of your poison ivy coming back? No thank you!
I truly don't think I would have gotten to this point if it hadn't been for Allen Carr's Easy Way for Women to Stop Smoking.
Finally free! December 4, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
After having smoked on and off for over 40 years, I heard about the book in Good Housekeeping magazine. At the time, I wasn't smoking, but knew I'd probably start smoking again because I always have--even after 10 years once! I always thought of myself as an ex-smoker, never a non-smoker. This book showed me what a difference that little syllable is. I've read that a "self-help" book can't change you. In this case, that's completely false. Mr. Carr was a genius. Please read his book.
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