Do you smoke?

You say to someone else to get off their high horse, yet you're still very nicely sat on your own.

"Withdrawal symptoms are myths" what *******s is that? Your body is physically craving that nicotine, your brain is used to having it and wants it, badly. After the first few days/weeks (depending on how much you smoked and for how long) it does get easier, but there is a reason a lot of people relapse.

You don't need willpower to quit smoking? That's the worst advice I've heard anyone give to someone who'd want to quit smoking. You need a lot of it, you need to physically force yourself to say no to something that you're so used to it's like denying drinking water when you're thirsty.

I'm sat here thinking you've never been a real smoker and given up at all, you seem to have got off it lightly and gone "oh if it's so easy for me it must be for everyone else, they are all just stupid compared to me."

I bought this book for my boyfriend after meeting someone on holiday who recommended it. You have to want to give up to read it - but why would you be reading it otherwise. My boyfriend read the book and is now on week 4 of not smoking. He hasn't had any help i.e. patches, as the book recommends you dont rely on anything. He is amazed at how easy it has been. He has been smoking since he was 14 and is now 47. He was a heavy smoker and has only ever tried to give up once before - and managed 8 days!! He would recommend this book to anyone. It is a psychological look at the the mind of a smoker and makes complete sense. Give it a go!

Take what I said out of context then

Did I not mention cravings? Cravings are not "cold sweats, headaches, sickness", are they? The reason people relapse is because they think they are giving something up, when they are not. They are gaining many things, they convince themselves it's going to be incredibly hard, convince themselves they are going to have terrible withdrawal pains and it's going to be a nightmare etc... when it doesn't have to be. Once you realise and fully grasp the concept that you have nothing to gain at all from smoking, you do not want to smoke.



Worst advice? That's why the bloke who said it was a multi-millionaire and has by far the highest quit success rate with his method than any nicotine substitution or willpower methods have. Who am I going to listen to? Him or you?





I tried to quit loads of times with the same rubbish I had told to me, "you need willpower, you need patches, you need this that and the next thing", you don't. The only time I was successful was after I read that book. I'm pretty sure some successful quitters could come in this thread and vouch for it, too. The crux of it is he will take any myth or excuse you have to continue smoking and debunk it and expose it for what it is, a myth.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/014103940X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346847583&sr=8-1

Check reviews, this bloke knows a damn lot more than you do. I think I'll take his advice seeing as that's how I eventually quit.



Hundreds and hundreds of people saying the same thing.

It literally hit me after I posted it that at 6am it was Alan Carr's method and now I feel like a **** for posting that This is why I shouldn't post at 6am.

Haha some of you make me laugh like "i'll quit after uni" or "i'll quit before I go to uni".

Do you not realise how hard it is to give up smoking? :L
It's a physical addiction, if you are so used to having them and then just stop, idgaf how much will power you have to say no, you will feel absolutely ****e, cold sweats, headaches, sickness..
I've tried so much, that now it's got to the point where I'd rather just smoke, than feel **** for the month or more that it takes me to try and quit.

naive.

It's mine as well, because I have to walk past you in the street every day and breath in your cancerous fumes every time I walk into any sort of public building. By all means, smoke, but nowhere where non-smokers want to go. Also, littering is illegal, I don't know why smokers seem to think they are exempt from that law when they throw cigarette butts on the ground.