How do you sucessfully quit smoking and stay quit? -
Quitting smoking is extremely difficult. The withdrawl makes us not want to, but we know the risks and we know that they are not worth it. For anyone who wants to end their nicotine addiction, check out www.stopsmokingcleveland.com. This is the MOST effective method on the market. It is 86% effective and the details of the program are on the website (no signing up or submitting your information).
I tried this program and it changed my life.
If you quit. You quit. It is very easy! Don-t lite one. Don-t chew either it is worse than smoking. The rest is all in the mind. If you get angry while quitting you are just looking for an excuse to light up. Nothing or no one can make you smoke only you can do that.
I have quit for 9 days now. I use 14mg nicotine patch and have found a lot of good advice and help at www.quitnet.com. I read a book by -Allen Carr- titled -Easy Way to Quit Smoking- which was very inspirational. I carry a little card with reasons why I want to quit and helpful hints to stay quit. I also have a small picture of a healthy lung and a diseased smoking lung which I carry with me as a reminder of lung cancer (you can get this off the internet). I chew gum and suck on short straws. I read a lot about not smoking and go to the quitnet for help.
You can quit for you, good luck and keep trying to quit. They say it gets easier to quit the more you try to quit.
This method works for me and is the only money back guaranteed.
I quite smoking 2 years ago
Get the Facts
Easyway, founded by Allen Carr in 1983, has the highest independently verified 12-month success rate (75.8% for a smoker completing the program) of any quit smoking technique and a 90% satisfaction rating.
Compare Easyway to other methods and see for yourself why Easyway is called “The Cadillac of quit smoking methods.”
The Allen Carr Method
HOW THE METHOD WORKS
Using psychotherapy, the method works in the opposite way to the “willpower” method. It does not concentrate on the reasons the smoker should not smoke : the money, the slavery, the health risks and the stigma. Smokers know all that already. Instead it focuses on why smokers continue to smoke in spite of the obvious disadvantages.
It is fear that keeps smokers hooked!
Fear the smoker will have to give up their pleasure or crutch. Fear the smoker will be unable to enjoy life or handle stress. Fear the smoker will have to go through an awful trauma to get free. Fear the smoker will never get completely free from the craving.
The Method removes these fears
Smokers quit with the Allen Carr Method as happy non-smokers, not feeling deprived but with a huge sense of relief and elation that they have finally achieved what they always wanted….
TO BE FREE!
What about the terrible withdrawal pangs from nicotine?
The physical withdrawal from nicotine is so slight that most smokers don’t realise that they are addicts. What smokers suffer when they try and quit using other methods is the misery and depression caused by the belief that they are being deprived of a pleasure or a crutch.
The Allen Carr Method removes this feeling of deprivation.
It removes the need and desire to smoke. Once the smoker is in the right frame of mind and they follow the simple instructions, the physical withdrawal from nicotine is hardly noticeable.
No Gimmicks!
The Method does not use any gimmicks, useless aids or substitutes. No nicotine gum, patches, lozenges, tabs, inhilators or nasal sprays! No needles! No lasers! No drugs! No herbs! No shock treatment!
The Allen Carr Method is successful because:
It removes the smokers’ conflict of will.
There are no bad withdrawal pangs.
It is instantaneous and easy.
It is equally effective for long-term heavy smokers and light smokers.
You need not gain weight.
You will not miss smoking.
Medical Endorsements
A personal view from Professor Judith Mackay MBE, JP, FRCO (Edin), FRCP (Lon), World Health Organisation Advisory Panel on Tobacco and Health
“I have no hesitation in supporting Allen Carr’s work. Many clinics use some of his techniques but it would appear that few do it in quite such a successful package.”
Carole Johnson, Coronary Heart Disease Prevention Unit, Tyne Tees
“his success rate was such that, when budgets allow, we continue to use Easyway for work with specific groups and individuals.”
Dr Anil Visa BSc, MBBch., FRCA, Consultant – Royal Hospitals NHS Trust – Royal London Hospital
“I have observed the Allen Carr method at first hand and have found it to be very successful and I wholeheartedly support it as an effective way to quit smoking.”
Dr William Green, Head of Psychiatric Dept, Matilda Hospital, Hong Kong
“It is a remarkable fact that Allen Carr, on his own admission a non-professional in behaviour modification, should have succeeded where countless psychologists and psychiatrists holding postgraduate qualifications have failed, in formulating a simple and effective way to stop smoking.”
Dr Martin Jarvis, Principle Scientist, Imperial Cancer Research
Fund and Reader in Health Psychology, University College London
”...I am more than happy to testify to Allen Carr’s enduring involvement and to recognise the value of the kind of behavioural and cognitive support he provides.”
Dr PM Bray MB CH.b., MRCGP
“I was really impressed by the method. In spite of the Allen Carr organisation’s success and fame, there were no gimmicks and the professional approach was something a GP could readily respect. I would be happy to give a medical endorsement of the method to anyone.”
Celebrity Endorsements
-His method is absolutely unique, removing the dependence on cigarettes, while you are actually smoking. I’m pleased to say it has worked for many of my friends and staff.”
Sir Richard Branson
“Some friends of mine who had stopped using Allen Carr’s method suggested I tried it. I did. It was such a revelation that instantly I was freed from my addiction. Like those friends of mine, I found it not only easy but unbelievably enjoyable to stay stopped.”
Sir Anthony Hopkins
GOOD LUCK!
cut off your fingers. its almost impossible to light up then
For me it has been mind over matter. I have kids now and I don-t want them to ever see me smoke and get the impression that smoking is okay. It-s hard though... I still think about smoking A LOT. You just have to try to find something to occupy your time that won-t let you smoke (I knit now). Also, when you-re having a bad moment or a bad day, remind yourself that tomorrow is another day... another day when you HAVEN-T had a cigarette! Reward yourself for not smoking.
The Patch, The Gum, and, most of all, Will Power. You can-t do anything if you don-t want to do it. You have to have the motivation more than anything.
The desire to quit should be greater than your desire to smoke!
It-s NOT easy.
But all the hype about NICOTINE DEPENDANCE is RUBBISH. There are NO severe withdrawal symptoms. Just a strong urge to smoke ... you have to feel miserable for a few days - NO OTHER WAY.
To help you along for the first week I suggest you take some tranquilzer tablets such as DIAZAPAM. Small doses two or three times a day.
Don-t try to ESCAPE from thinking or talking about SMOKING. DON-T BE AFRAID OG GIVING UP!
Try to AVOID the company of SMOKERS for atleast the first week.
DO NOT BOOZE during your first THREE MONTHS... you could become weka when you are drunk.
I KNOW ALL THIS BECUASE I ACTUALLY QUIT AFTER BEING A HEAVY SMOKER for 30 YEAR PLUS.... I smoked 60 a day till July 2003.
Now I simply ENJOY MY FREEDOM from slavery to tobacco. It-s a great feeling not always crave for a cigarette. No lousy taste in the mouth. No social embarrasment - in public places. So much more fun to be alive!
GOOD LUCK!
Realise that it is going to be difficult, know that it-s what you really want to even if your mind is trying to make up all kinds of excuses. Get help (patches, gum etc) if you think it will help. Be very prepared for times after your morning coffee, after a meal or when you-re out having a drink and maybe change your routine. I went cold turkey and ate sugarfree gum at those times I really craved it. If you quit then have a weak moment, don-t be hard on yourself realise what good you-ve done then pick up quitting where you left off.
ANYONE CAN DO IT IF I DID!!