I’m an ex-smoker!
I am very pleased to announce that I have become an ex-smoker. I started smoking some years ago, as a heavy party/part-time-smoker, then stopped for a couple of years. Back then I think I stopped because some huge changes occurred in my life and I just couldn’t get into the mindset of smoking, plus I couldn’t afford it back then.
About ten months ago, I began smoking again, this time more regularly, and I was up to around twenty a day. Tried stopping, then started again shortly after. I knew I was in for it, but couldn’t find an excuse and a method to quit totally. Then a former co-worker, Casper introduced me to the book Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking, and boy was I in for a treat!
First and foremost, I was sceptic as hell: “How on Earth can a book change people in such a way that it can make them stop completely with such a nasty habit?”, I thought. But it intrigued me, since Casper said it had helped quite a few people before him (word of mouth), and since he isn’t the type that reads ‘Self-help-books’, I gave it a try.
I read it in one stretch and I never, ever want to smoke again. Amazing! What it does basically, is to bombard you with ‘the awful truth’ behind smoking, breaking down the logic most people associate with this phenomenon. It works as a kind of mild brain-wash, but actually removes the ‘real’ brain-wash behind smoking that has been built up in years by not only governments (who makes wads of money on this industry) and manufacturers, but also by smokers themselves (unintentionally of course).
Basically, you are left with a feeling that you do not loose something precious, but gain so much, and it is actually very, very easy to quit once you get behind the façade, get the facts down and are carried gently and firmly through the process by Allen Carr, who himself has been a devoted smoker for 33 years, then going from 100 a day to 0 in one snap.
This book rocks. If you smoke and are thinking about stopping, read it! Period!
(The book has been translated into more than twenty languages, including Danish)
Side note: I got shat down my neck again by a bird earlier today… Call me ‘the bird toilet’. I smell a conspiracy brewing…
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Apr 1st 2004
Two shats Massi? You are definitely in for something BIG … LOL
Apr 1st 2004
Hey, congratulations my friend - good news - smoking really is a bad thing.
I also stopped about a year ago, but as you maybe remember, I smoked on a regular basis - now I’m only smoking once or twice a month, when I’m going out or so.
Looking forward to seeing you again - miss you!
Apr 1st 2004
Hey thanks P! Looking forward to see you too again my friend!
And Rosi: I really don’t consider myself being especially lucky having become the local bird toilet around here… (^_^)
Apr 2nd 2004
Props to ya!
Apr 2nd 2004
wow! I admire you for being able to quit. I saw the book before in a bookstore (but didnt really read it) but I htink if you put your mind to it (quitting, that is), book or no book, you should be able to quit. But on the flip side, if you have no notions to quit smoking (like me), then all the willpower in the world isn’t going to help.
Apr 2nd 2004
Thanks Sharon & Tony!
Actually, willpower isn’t quite enough most of the time, because of the way we globally think about smokes: We think we’re loosing something precious if we quit, but we don’t. That’s why most smokers won’t quit to begin with because they somehow are afraid of losing that ’special’ thing that isn’t there, even though deep deep down they’d like too get rid of the cigarettes.
Too much of a thing to get into here, but that’s the geniality of the book, killing the myths and revealing the truth.