Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2018 in Books
• Published on: 1995-01-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Synopsis
Aims to expose the traps of smoking, and to provide smokers with the motivation to break free for ever. The book covers giving up without becoming dependent on a substitute, the myth of weight gain and the particular problems women face when giving up smoking.

Customer Reviews

It worked for me
I was told about this book by a collegue. I started reading it thinking I would read the book but never stop. As I read it I found myself having less and less desire to smoke.

The book was very repetative and at times it would have been easy to stop reading. I continued to the end of the book and have now been a non smoker for over a year.

In that time I have had cravings but but most of the time I am just thankful that i don't smoke anymore.

Gave up by accident after reading this.......
Well sort of!
Read this in conjunction with listening to Paul Mckenna 'Stop Smoking' hypnosis tape (every night for at least 2 wks), and wasn't really sure I wanted to quit, but was supporting a friend (as you do). Had read AC's Easyway, but needed something more hardcore to convince me... I put out my last ciggy at 1pm 7th January 2008, and have not smoked since.
Oh Yes, occassionally felt like a ciggy, but bigger picture is I do not want to be a smoker. Thanks to Allen Carr
20 a day for 25 years - and I LOVED smoking...........If I can do it, YOU CAN TOO ! GO FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A real puff piece
This is essentially a 'superking' version of 'Easy Way to Stop Smoking', whose extended length actually makes it less satisfying and poorer value. Carr pads out his otherwise useful advice with autobiographical details and tedious analogies that add nothing to the text apart from extra, irrelevant pages. He makes this worse by teasing you about 'the instructions' he will soon reveal to help you stop smoking for good, which he kindly manages to withhold until page 380!

The book therefore reads like an unedited version of 'Easy Way' published after the slimmer volume's success to make more money from the smoking 'monster'. By the final page I was no nearer to quitting my habit but had developed a passionate dislike of this self-aggrandising, patronising man and annoyance at myself at boosting further the considerable coffers Carr inhaled from coughers.