I dropped the topic of quitting a bit, although the plans included several articles ranging from informative to personal. In the fall of 2017, three years after I stopped smoking, I probably stopped remembering this habit, although the desire to share the greatest joy in the first months did not leave me. In general, I decided to finish the work I started, especially soon there will be new periods of health and self-development. I have already achieved something, I will get something in parallel with the readers. I really hope that in recent years I have started to write a little better, that is, people will find this and other articles useful to them.
Many people started trying to quit smoking with Allen Carr's book, The Easy Way to Quit Smoking.Why buy when you can only read online or download from torrents? This is your right, but I am still a supporter of legal methods, and you will have a great incentive to read the book to the end, even if it costs a little money. At the end of the article I will write about buying or stealing a book. Now I would like to talk a little about the methods described in this book.
When I first read Allen Carr's The Easy Way to Quit Smoking, it's like it's in a bag, now he's going to read a smart book and make life better. The promised way is easy, so you don't have to work at all. It can be good. Quite a few were able to give up their bad habits by reading to the end. Unfortunately, the habit soon returned to many. Also, perhaps because they did not read carefully, fluently and thoughtfully, relying on the Russian language. By the way, the author of the book is a foreigner, so you should not believe that it will be a 100% hit.
I wrote a separate article on the same topic about other books that will help you get rid of other bad habits. Do not flatter yourself in the hope that quitting will solve all your problems. In fact, you will only embark on the path of self-improvement with confidence in your abilities.
What is the magic of Allen Carr's easy way to quit smoking? Is it really in a special writing style? Of course not. The book helps to reflect your habit. It shows the real face of the enemy without threatening the smoker with horror stories about various wounds that already contain a large number of substances in the wax (in the article: "Smoking harms the human body" - I tried to open this topic as much as possible without unnecessary horror stories). Allen calls smoking just a necessity, so you spend a lot of money to enrich companies. Just think that the state is not trying to impose a complete ban on tobacco, even though the church says nothing about smoking, even though it is worth it - only smokers need it. Patients who die early pay an additional tax for the right to self-destruct.
Allen Carr emphasizes in his book The Easy Way to Quit Smoking that there is essentially nothing to give up, that you are not giving up something important and useful, that you are simply killing yourself and giving money to companies. Remember, as a child, you didn't need to smoke after meals to get extra pleasure, you didn't need to light a cigarette while talking to your friends, you felt great right after sleep. According to Allen, smoking and it is difficult to argue with him, all this avoids the smoker, whose life consists of two periods: smoking and the desire to smoke - the only pleasure is to meet the need for nicotine, which immediately reappears. The most amazing thing is that you get rid of the need to consume tobacco by ending your life. If you stop smoking, you will stop wanting to smoke.
The book is written in a fairly simple and accessible language and translated in high quality, so it is not only useful but also pleasant to read. Therefore, if the issue of smoking has not yet been resolved, do not hesitate to buy the electronic or paper version.
Who and why reading Allen Carr's book helps
First of all, the book "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking" will really help those who want to get out of this habit. I set myself up with all seriousness and sought help as much as possible, for example, I personally used the book as an additional source of motivation, but also an opportunity to move from smoking to something else.
According to statistics, about 80% of Allen Carr's readers quit smoking. But don't think that all of them are so weak in character and that the author is a great mystic and hypnotist. People just start thinking and sooner or later come to the conclusion that it is really easy to quit smoking. "There's really nothing to throw away" - that's why Carr likes to express himself in his book, so it's important to stop being tortured and poisoned on a daily basis. You can pay companies to ruin your health to quit.
This means that weak-willed, light-minded people do not smoke, but take care of their health and the health of their children. A high percentage can not fail to rejoice - it means that the world is not crazy yet, and most people still know how to assess the situation wisely. And people like me and I just didn't quit because of the book The Easy Way to Quit Smoking, but it didn't happen without it.
Why Don't Buy Allen Carr's Book
I came across a theory that no smoking cessation method works until you pay for it. Here is triggered by a subconscious stuck in childhood, so nothing is given for free and for free, for example, the principle of the proverb "you can not easily take a fish out of the pond. "Like many others, it is very possible that I was once exposed to this effect, because I was not affected by the book, because for the first time friends who wanted to help me were given the book "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking. "Similarly, the pills taken by at least half of the former smokers did not work on time because I bought the first pack for free. As a result, the smoking cessation process lasted five long years, from 2009 to 2014. However, I will tell my story another time.
Among other things, as a legitimate blogger who advocates compliance with the law and the "start with yourself" principle, you are not ready to simply give advice on theft. On the other hand, I believe that after the death of the author, any work should become the property of the people. So decide for yourself, the main thing is not to read online. Most likely, one reading of the book will not be enough, so it is always good to have on hand for each new attempt.
For example, I needed three readings, the last of which was more distracting than the urge to smoke, but extremely effective. I read that you can smoke whenever you want, I had a pack of cigarettes against all recommendations, I knew I could give up my plans at any time, how much stronger and more guaranteed I was that I wanted to quit smoking. My affirmations and motivations worked, and Allen Carr's book, An Easy Way to Quit Smoking, which I downloaded for a penny, worked. Although the method was not the easiest, the goal was reached and the next step was taken.