Quitting smoking?

I just read the reviews of this book at Amazon. Wow, it seems like this guy has really hit on something. Testimony after testimony of giving up smoking with an amazing ease. I'm putting it on my wish list because although I quit years ago I'd love to understand what this guy's method is since it is apparently incredibly effective.I used to smoke very heavily and tried to quit time after time as smokers usually do, as the intro to this book also affirms. I'd do the usual rummaging through the garbage to find a bit of a butt to smoke, I'd throw out partial packs, even drown them in water to make them unsmokeable, then find myself going down to the Seven Eleven at midnight to get another pack. I did manage to quit for two years once and it was exactly as the guy describes, a daily struggle that made going back to it inevitable when life got a little more stressful.When I did quit it was at a Christian seminar where we were asked to pray about something we thought the Lord would want us to get out of our lives. I prayed to give up smoking. When I got in my car after the seminar I lit up the half smoked cigarette I'd left in the ashtray, smoked it down to the filter, thinking the whole time "Why am I doing this after praying to stop?" I don't know what made it possible but that was the last cigarette I ever smoked. And the urge was gone gone gone, never had the slightest desire after that.That was in August of 1989.So I'm wondering if whatever happened to me psychologically that made it so easy for me to quit through prayer was similar to what happens to people who quit with such ease from this book. I'd like to find out.ABE: I mean of course God changed my desire to smoke because I did pray, but I'm talking here about the psychological component of it, HOW He changed my desire, what mental change occurred that made it possible to simply put cigarettes absolutely out of mind as I did from then on.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

The impression I get of the book without having read more than the introduction is that it DOESN'T try to guilttrip the smoker, doesn't emphasize how you are killing yourself even, because you already know that. I get the impression that it mostly describes the psychological state that keeps you needing to smoke and that there's something about just having that acknowledged that makes it possible to stop thinking you need to smoke and actually truly voluntarily give it up. Something like that?I think what you say here may be the main thing: Like you really DON'T WANT to smoke but you have to realilze you don't? Once you don't want to smoke it doesn't even enter your mind any more, why would it if you really don't like it and found out you really don't like it and don't need it. You don't obsess about eating spinach if you don't even like spinach, you just don't even think about spinach. That's what I THINK happened to me, something like that anyway.If this book can lead people to that frame of mind all smokers who have tried to quit need to read it. I know there are some it doesn't work for, there always will be some of those, but it's a remarkably small percentage from the sound of it.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

Iano posted way back in the thread --Message 13 --on the book The Easy Way To Stop Smoking by Allen Carr and insisted it really is easy, no struggle whatever, no cravings whatever.I believe him because When I quit my two and sometimes even three pack a day habit after years of failure stopping and starting again, struggling and giving up, it was amazingly easy and from what Iano said it sounds like this book is a similar attitude changer to what I discovered on my own.Far as I can tell nobody here took Iano's advice seriously. I wish somebody would and then report back on it.You want something that doesn't feel like a sacrifice. This sounds like it. I'm sure there are always some people who are immune to any method but this has a great track record and really sounds worth trying,. You say you know smoking is irrational, but I have a feeling you rally have no idea until you read this book.REMEMBER: no struggle whatever, no cravings whatever. None. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.