Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking

Instead of moping about it, say to yourself, ‘I know what it is. It’s the withdrawal pang from nicotine. That’s what smokers suffer all their lives and that’s what keeps them smoking. Non-smokers do not suffer these pangs. It is another of the many evils of this drug. Isn’t it marvellous I am purging this evil from my body!’

All you ever enjoy in a cigarette is the ending of the craving for it, whether it be the almost imperceptible physical craving for nicotine or the mental torture caused by not being allowed to scratch the itch.

Now if you have a permanent itch, the natural tendency is to scratch it. As our bodies become more and more immune to nicotine the natural tendency is to chain-smoke.

It is essential to counter the brainwashing right from the start. Get it quite clear in your head: you don’t need the cigarette, and you are only torturing yourself by continuing to regard it as some sort of prop or boost. There is no need to be miserable. Cigarettes do not make meals or social occasions; they ruin them. Remember too that the smoke

Remember, the only pleasure smokers get is to relieve withdrawal pangs and as I have already explained, even that pleasure is an illusion. Imagine the little nicotine monster inside your body as a permanent itch so imperceptible that most of the time you aren’t even aware of it.

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