Easy Way to Stop Smoking
by Allen Carr
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Book Reviews of Easy Way to Stop Smoking
Book Review: Put Me Down as a Non-Smoker
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this book in about three or four days, smoking all the while. On the last few pages I KNEW I was done and finished off my the rest of the pack. I haven't smoked since. I didn't feel nicotine withdrawal pains and didn't overeat and didn't bully my family. In fact, they never knew I quit (I was a secret smoker.)
The book seems a bit repetitive but bear with it. It's the easiest, least expensive way that I know of. I've bought a copy for my daughter and I consider that small expense one of the greatest gifts I could ever give her.
Do yourself a favor, save your health, your money and your self-respect. There are no deadlines, no pressure, no scare tactics here. You'll find that you'll quit because you want to, are convinced to, and are ready to. Hard to beleive, but true. This is the Magic Bullet!
Book Review: Like everyone else
Summary: 5 Stars
Much like all the other reviews on this book, my opinion is also stellar. As much as I usually deplore 'self-help' material, Carr's conversational style and obvious real-smoker-experience makes this an exceptional book. In tandem with Chantix (modern medicine FTW), this book has helped keep me smoke-free for over a year now.Book Review: Done!
Summary: 5 Stars
It worked! Even though the book encouraged me to continue smoking until I'd finished, I knew I wasn't going to light up again 3/4 the way through. I know this may scare some people into not wanting to read it, and Allen addresses this "fear" throughout the book, so don't worry about it! You obviously want to quit smoking, or you wouldn't be reading this, right?! So, when you're ready, most definatly, read this book! Quite simply, it works! Good Luck!Book Review: It really works! I'm done after 4 years! YIPPEE
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay so if you are reading this and are most likely a smoker, buy this book! The thing about Carr is that he understands you. He's not the ones on the tube or in the magazines telling you to stop and have never puffed on one in their life. His method works because it explains WHY you smoke and the real answers to the excuses you make for doing it.
Non-smokers deal w/ everything you do and don't need a cigarette. You are brainwashed into thinking you do. He is repetative and drills it into your brain. I loved it! I knew if I fully couldn't grasp the concept right away he would explain it again later.
This is the only method! You smoke as you read it and finish it when you're ready.
When you quit, which you will...it will be an elated feeling, one of pure joy. No withdrawl symptoms, moping or a feeling of deprivation.
What are you waiting for? Read it!
Book Review: A decent analysis of the smoker
Summary: 4 Stars
I've contemplated what it is that keeps my friends and I smoking cigarettes over the years, from a philosophical and psychological standpoint, and I think Allen Carr did a decent job of it. He will show many people I'm sure how they've actually brainwashed themselves into believing that they enjoy smoking, when really it's just a byproduct of their addiction to nicotine met and then justified in a whole host of ways. I was impressed with that. However, what I was not impressed with is the idea that quitting smoking cigarettes is an "easy" task, actually I consider it downright arrogant to make such a claim. If you're living a nice lush life inside your own house and working a decent job, sure it might be easier then, but when you're getting by on the minimum you will be FAR more stressed out and it will be far more difficult for a smoker to quit under such circumstances. I think the "Easyway" method is ideal for a person with a low-stress lifestyle and who is also ready to quit. But for me personally, I just finished the book a week ago or so and already made 3 failed attempts to quit, actually managed to go 40 hours without one during it though. I even went out into a field and rolled out a sleeping bag to get away from irritation triggers (people), but wound up getting bit by thousands of mosquitos, so that didn't work. I understand exactly what Allen Carr is saying, I understand his message fully, in fact I understood well 80% of the book before I had even opened it. Long story short though: It'll work for some maybe even most smokers, but it's far from a universal method to make the quitting process an easy one for all smokers. I'm tempted at times to give the book 3 stars, and then tempted at other times to rate it at 5 stars, so let's agree on an even 4. Worth reading and recommended.