Interesting, it's the exact same thinking that helped me quit smoking. I just realised that every cigarette just made me want one more. I pictured the gigantic ashtray needed for all the cigarettes I had smoked in my life, and that picture was so gross that it helped me stop. Thinking of the smell old stumps is also equally off putting.
Cigarettes cost $36 for a pack of 20 in Australia, equivalent to $23 USD or 17.34 GBP. It's insane how much money the government makes from them. Over $300 for a carton. I quit some years ago and have never regretted it.
I tried a number of times to give up smoking, and hope had faded. So i figured i should try to cut back the number i smoked each day... To do this i kept pen and paper on hand to record the time of each cigarette. Every time i reached for a smoke i checked the time of the previous one. I then decided to put off having another for a few more minutes. after a few day, and weeks, those pauses
lengthened: the latest few minutes is 25 years long... I never once decided to stop smoking, only to cut back... Occasionally i still get the urge, but i say to myself "maybe later"...
I am pleased to endorse this article. Allen Carr’s method, which I had the luck to encounter in a free mini-paperback that came free with a Saturday broadsheet newspaper, equipped me to overcome a 15-year smoking habit that began in my early teens. His insight was indeed brilliant and the method itself a genuine game-changer for anyone who really wanted to stop. If I simply counted the money stopping has saved me over the last 40 years I would owe Mr Carr countless thousands (and I would have shortened my life expect by over a decade).
I found this book in the opshop many years ago, read it and got to the last chapter and when ready I read the last chapter and gave up, never went back. I weaned off by using herbs like mugwort, and when I got to the last dregs of the tobacco pouch I resisted from buying more. You need to take up a new hobby to distract you. I chose puzzles, to keep my mind distracted. Good luck to everyone trying to give up, it is the hardest drug of all to give up thanks to the many chemicals deliberately put into the tobacco and cigerettes to keep you hooked. Sadly same thing is happening to vapers now. Don't put anything in your mouth that is not healthy and nourishing for you. You many even have to avoid some friends/aquaintances/family for a while until they accept you as a non-smoker.
I was never a smoker but this was a very interesting article. I think you can replace "smoker" and "without cigarettes" in the following sentence with just about any addiction and get the same results. "Smokers develop a deep-seated fear that life will never be as enjoyable without cigarettes, which keeps them trapped even when they desperately want to escape."
I was gifted this book whilst working in China, 2007. Chinese cigarettes were cheap with fantastic holographic packaging with high tar and nicotine content.. i probably smoked 20 a day.
Anyhow.. I read this book (which btw states that you should smoke as normal) in 2 nights.
Woke up the next morning and POOOOF.. no desire to smoke, gave up cold turkey with no 'side-effects'
3yrs i gave up.. then started again (i know, stupid decision) so I re-read the book aaand again stopped smoking for another 8mths.
Well done for your efforts, you have to be ready. Don't wait until you get a health scare. Take up a new hobby, or smoke herbs like mugwort to help lower the tobacco levels.
Oh dear. I used to be a smoker but I simply wasn't addicted because any time it was inconvenient or impossible to smoke it didn't bother me so I was lucky like that. I gave up completely over a period of a few years I'd say.
due to impositions (flying) i can go without without discomfort then when free, light one up.. I have 3 packets left ( in B.C you can buy from the reservation 200 or 10 packs for $45).. then I’ll re-read Mr Carrs’ book again. thanks for your support.
Why stop? Nicotine is the only substance that destroys the nanotechnology in the kill jab ...why in hell do you suppose they would forgo the huge profits from tobacco?
I also read the same. Smokers didn't get covid. But, since covid never existed in the first place and the real disease was in the kill shot, just don't take any shots, ever. After having taken just 3 vitamins daily I haven't had a common sickness in 10 years, not even a sniffle, so there's no need for nicotine to protect me because I don't take shots. My sister chain smoked for 60 years, never got covid. After her second shot she died.
Vit C, 10,000 IU divided up during the day, I don't take all at one time.
Vit D, 10,000 (2 at 5000 IU) pills at a time and only during the winter. The rest of the year I take 1 at 5000. In summer I take sun at high noon in bathing suit. I slowly work my way to an hour when the sun shines. Those days I take no D.
CO Q-10, 100 mg. Affects mitochondria function and is the driver of Vit D absorption. My sickness during the winter was epic. Non-stop coughing, bronchitis, sore throats, pneumonia, months on end. When my homeopath checked my Vit D levels I was at an 11. Levels should be like BP, 80 to 120. Relief was almost immediate when I started taking vitamins. It's been 10 years now.
Thanks, CM. There's a lot now being said about supplements being toxic especially Vit D and how it's rat poison - which I don't find a compelling argument because we're not rats and it might be some kind of mega dose - also it might be used with other substances for effect - however I have to say all the talk has made me more skeptical. Your experience though certainly suggests otherwise.
I cannot overstate the importance of Vit D. These liars are spinning tales about danger and toxicity of vitamins because they want you sick. Without sickness they go out of business. What was shocking to me was zero mention of taking VitD during the pandemic. That said everything to me.
When I walked into a homeopaths office at deaths door he put me on Vit D 20,000 IU's daily for 2 weeks. FDA recommends 500mg daily of VitD which should tell you is worthless by comparison, no?
I had much the same experience. I'm 66 but in very good health. Normal BMI, low blood pressure, not diabetic or pre-diabetic, cholesterol levels good, etc. The ONLY THING my doctor could prescribe for me at our last meeting was a megadose of Vit D, similar to what you got, CM. I was deficient even though I was spending most of my time last year in the tropics! And yes, the dosages the FDA recommends seem paltry in comparison.
Reading Carr's book now. It's helpful, but I have one major hangup with it. Wondering if anyone can address this: It's not quite true, as Carr says, that there is "nothing to give up" with nicotine. The understanding is emerging now that nicotine (clean, smokeless nicotine like gum; and dosed responsibly, not frequently) has a number of genuine health benefits (including, in particular, cognitive benefits). One could argue that those benefits are not worth the risk of keeping nicotine in your system (and thus tempting one to smoke or, in my case, vape). But it's hard for me to get over. I'm *really* interested in enhancing my productivity to the max, and when I get in those 'crunch' moments when cravings hit hard, this is the notion that keeps me coming back to nicotine.
Allen Carr also applies same protocol with drinking alcohol/also a Group 1 Carcinogen. Often people will say it's just a simple pleasure in life, Group 1 Carcinogens are not simple pleasures, maybe having desert a few times a month or having a daily coffee/cappuccino may be?
Interesting, it's the exact same thinking that helped me quit smoking. I just realised that every cigarette just made me want one more. I pictured the gigantic ashtray needed for all the cigarettes I had smoked in my life, and that picture was so gross that it helped me stop. Thinking of the smell old stumps is also equally off putting.
Cigarettes cost $36 for a pack of 20 in Australia, equivalent to $23 USD or 17.34 GBP. It's insane how much money the government makes from them. Over $300 for a carton. I quit some years ago and have never regretted it.
Maybe they should print dollar signs on each ciggie to remind people they are burning money.
People still pay this kind of money for them. Unbelievable!
I tried a number of times to give up smoking, and hope had faded. So i figured i should try to cut back the number i smoked each day... To do this i kept pen and paper on hand to record the time of each cigarette. Every time i reached for a smoke i checked the time of the previous one. I then decided to put off having another for a few more minutes. after a few day, and weeks, those pauses
lengthened: the latest few minutes is 25 years long... I never once decided to stop smoking, only to cut back... Occasionally i still get the urge, but i say to myself "maybe later"...
Whatever works is my motto ... as long as the cost - if there is one - isn't too great. Congratulations for finding a way that worked for you.
I am pleased to endorse this article. Allen Carr’s method, which I had the luck to encounter in a free mini-paperback that came free with a Saturday broadsheet newspaper, equipped me to overcome a 15-year smoking habit that began in my early teens. His insight was indeed brilliant and the method itself a genuine game-changer for anyone who really wanted to stop. If I simply counted the money stopping has saved me over the last 40 years I would owe Mr Carr countless thousands (and I would have shortened my life expect by over a decade).
I found this book in the opshop many years ago, read it and got to the last chapter and when ready I read the last chapter and gave up, never went back. I weaned off by using herbs like mugwort, and when I got to the last dregs of the tobacco pouch I resisted from buying more. You need to take up a new hobby to distract you. I chose puzzles, to keep my mind distracted. Good luck to everyone trying to give up, it is the hardest drug of all to give up thanks to the many chemicals deliberately put into the tobacco and cigerettes to keep you hooked. Sadly same thing is happening to vapers now. Don't put anything in your mouth that is not healthy and nourishing for you. You many even have to avoid some friends/aquaintances/family for a while until they accept you as a non-smoker.
I was never a smoker but this was a very interesting article. I think you can replace "smoker" and "without cigarettes" in the following sentence with just about any addiction and get the same results. "Smokers develop a deep-seated fear that life will never be as enjoyable without cigarettes, which keeps them trapped even when they desperately want to escape."
His method worked for me. I bought two books and loan one out to people I know that want to quit smoking. It worked every time.
I was gifted this book whilst working in China, 2007. Chinese cigarettes were cheap with fantastic holographic packaging with high tar and nicotine content.. i probably smoked 20 a day.
Anyhow.. I read this book (which btw states that you should smoke as normal) in 2 nights.
Woke up the next morning and POOOOF.. no desire to smoke, gave up cold turkey with no 'side-effects'
3yrs i gave up.. then started again (i know, stupid decision) so I re-read the book aaand again stopped smoking for another 8mths.
I started again re-read again.. same result.
Started again then it didnt work!
Well done for your efforts, you have to be ready. Don't wait until you get a health scare. Take up a new hobby, or smoke herbs like mugwort to help lower the tobacco levels.
thank you.. had the health scare.. still smoke.. still in denial!
After reading Carrs’ book, the urge to smoke wasnt there and no ‘vacuum’ to fill
You mean you're still smoking?
unfortunately yes.. going to give it another go with a better frame of mind.
Good luck, Wayne. What do you think made you pick up again?
that little/huge lie of… “I can quit anytime” and the “its only one” chestnut!
Oh dear. I used to be a smoker but I simply wasn't addicted because any time it was inconvenient or impossible to smoke it didn't bother me so I was lucky like that. I gave up completely over a period of a few years I'd say.
due to impositions (flying) i can go without without discomfort then when free, light one up.. I have 3 packets left ( in B.C you can buy from the reservation 200 or 10 packs for $45).. then I’ll re-read Mr Carrs’ book again. thanks for your support.
Why stop? Nicotine is the only substance that destroys the nanotechnology in the kill jab ...why in hell do you suppose they would forgo the huge profits from tobacco?
For your HELth? Give me a break
I also read the same. Smokers didn't get covid. But, since covid never existed in the first place and the real disease was in the kill shot, just don't take any shots, ever. After having taken just 3 vitamins daily I haven't had a common sickness in 10 years, not even a sniffle, so there's no need for nicotine to protect me because I don't take shots. My sister chain smoked for 60 years, never got covid. After her second shot she died.
Sorry to hear about your sister...but don't be too complacent, there are a multitude of ways they can get this stuff into the resisters.
I never took a shot but I now smoke a pipe just in case....raw unadulterated tobacco is ok. Grow it .
Actually, I couldn't agree with you more. Well said.
What 3 common vitamins do you take and in what dosage?
Vit C, 10,000 IU divided up during the day, I don't take all at one time.
Vit D, 10,000 (2 at 5000 IU) pills at a time and only during the winter. The rest of the year I take 1 at 5000. In summer I take sun at high noon in bathing suit. I slowly work my way to an hour when the sun shines. Those days I take no D.
CO Q-10, 100 mg. Affects mitochondria function and is the driver of Vit D absorption. My sickness during the winter was epic. Non-stop coughing, bronchitis, sore throats, pneumonia, months on end. When my homeopath checked my Vit D levels I was at an 11. Levels should be like BP, 80 to 120. Relief was almost immediate when I started taking vitamins. It's been 10 years now.
Thanks, CM. There's a lot now being said about supplements being toxic especially Vit D and how it's rat poison - which I don't find a compelling argument because we're not rats and it might be some kind of mega dose - also it might be used with other substances for effect - however I have to say all the talk has made me more skeptical. Your experience though certainly suggests otherwise.
I cannot overstate the importance of Vit D. These liars are spinning tales about danger and toxicity of vitamins because they want you sick. Without sickness they go out of business. What was shocking to me was zero mention of taking VitD during the pandemic. That said everything to me.
When I walked into a homeopaths office at deaths door he put me on Vit D 20,000 IU's daily for 2 weeks. FDA recommends 500mg daily of VitD which should tell you is worthless by comparison, no?
I had much the same experience. I'm 66 but in very good health. Normal BMI, low blood pressure, not diabetic or pre-diabetic, cholesterol levels good, etc. The ONLY THING my doctor could prescribe for me at our last meeting was a megadose of Vit D, similar to what you got, CM. I was deficient even though I was spending most of my time last year in the tropics! And yes, the dosages the FDA recommends seem paltry in comparison.
Reading Carr's book now. It's helpful, but I have one major hangup with it. Wondering if anyone can address this: It's not quite true, as Carr says, that there is "nothing to give up" with nicotine. The understanding is emerging now that nicotine (clean, smokeless nicotine like gum; and dosed responsibly, not frequently) has a number of genuine health benefits (including, in particular, cognitive benefits). One could argue that those benefits are not worth the risk of keeping nicotine in your system (and thus tempting one to smoke or, in my case, vape). But it's hard for me to get over. I'm *really* interested in enhancing my productivity to the max, and when I get in those 'crunch' moments when cravings hit hard, this is the notion that keeps me coming back to nicotine.
Allen Carr also applies same protocol with drinking alcohol/also a Group 1 Carcinogen. Often people will say it's just a simple pleasure in life, Group 1 Carcinogens are not simple pleasures, maybe having desert a few times a month or having a daily coffee/cappuccino may be?