Customer Rating: Summary: Living Proof Comment: This works.
Period.
6th January 2009 marks one year to the day that I finished this book and smoked my last ever cigarette.
Best thing I ever did.
Customer Rating: Summary: I'M A NON SMOKER!!! Comment: This book really changes your perscective on thinking you are too addicted to quit!!! I've been a non smoker for a year and never look back neither i do not look at smokers and wish i could have one i simply know that i'm a non smoker. brilliant well worht the money! Customer Rating: Summary: BRILLIANT! Comment: I have had problems with alcohol and been a very heavy smoker for many years. I thought it better to try and quit 1 at a time to reduce the stress! Although I was worried what smoking was doing to me, I decided to try and quit drinking first as the consequences of my drinking were ruining my life. I had tried to quit smoking many times in the past and it was too much, I just could never do it. I read the Easyway to control alcohol book, and managed to quit drinking straight away. Something happened to me when I read that book, I knew I'd never drink again. I decided to give the smoking a try straight after.. Friends and family told me to leave it for while, "one thing at a time", I read this book on 27th may (6 months ago) and not only have I never smoked, I've never even wanted to. This book has changed my life! If I can do this, anyone can! My advise is read each chapter and make sure you understand each chapter before going onto the next. Dont be tempted to skip through the book. Customer Rating: Summary: I was worried Comment: I was worried that this wouldnt work for me. I have smoked for 5 years, and have tried to stop maybe 4 times for differing lengths of time. I would be proud of days that I went a day without a fag; it showed strength of willpower i suppose.
I read the 1 star reviews about this book, and they confirmed what I felt must be true all along - this must be too good to be true. What I now believe having read the book, and extinguished the final cigarette, is that these people do not want to give up. No book, no program, no person in this world is going to make you stop smoking - except yourself.
So the way in which this book works. Well, as a smoker, you are aware of why you shouldn't smoke; i.e. the disadvantages. Smokers don't stop for these reasons though, otherwise we would all be non-smokers.
What is more interesting, is asking you to think (while smoking a cigarette) why you continue to smoke - i.e. the advantages. I can't list them here, that's what the book does, but as you read, you have a massive sense of realisation sweep over you. it is almost as though the truth about cigarettes becomes obvious.
I write this review, 18 hours after my last cigarette, feeling that I should be tearing my hair out dying for a fag. But instead I am feeling very positive about the next few days and beyond. I would recommend this book not just to people who wish to quit, but to people who smoke. The way in which it is different is that it makes you realise all the positive reasons that a smoker uses to smoke are illusions.
As I say ignore the people who say this book isn't that good, it is certainly worth a try. A book is a book, and as an inanimate object it is not going to prevent you putting a cigarette in your mouth and lighting it. Open your mind to what cigarettes are doing for (not to) you. Customer Rating: Summary: Provides a positive push... but is ultimately devoid of 'real' insight Comment: First thing to point out, I didnt read the book until a long time after I had successfully managed to quit by reading 'The Nicotine Trick'. Curiosity got the better of me to see just why Carr was the de facto smoking guru. From my perspective this book has succeeded mainly from the positive message it instils in the reader and from persistant hammering home of the message. This can and has worked for many, but many aspects of the Easyway method have now been shown as bunk by Chris Holmes' marvelous book. It is definately worth a read, but in my opinion your money would be better spent on 'The Nicotine Trick' or 'Nicotine The Drug That Never Was'. These go further to the root of the problem rather than being mainly motivational (as Easyway is), and help you come out the other side understanding smoking better, and, providing the tools to quit successfully.
