IF you really want to stop please read..

[nsd_user663_2876]

Hi, just thought I'd share my story with you guys.

I'm only on day 4 which for some of you I imagine is really hard at the moment. I was smoking about 25 + a day when I decided to stop.

My first attempt to stop was a few years ago on patches. Last 5 months, the first two weeks were hell, then after that it was easier, except at the bar! lol Well needless to say, one smoke leads to another so I soon became a regular chain smoker again.

A friend recomended that I try Allen Carr's easyway book. I thought I'd do one better and go to the Clinic, I attended on saturday. By 1pm on saturday I knew I would never smoke again and I was so happy about it! I've had no withdrawels, I'm not eating to substitute. I feel confident and relaxed but more importantly my future is so bright!

This should be the first and ONLY way to use to stop smoking. I am now telling all my friends about it, they don't believe that it can be easy but it can! I know you think I'm only day 4 what would I know, I just do! On patched days 1-5 were awful! But I feel amazing!

If you don't believe me fair enough, it's your call. But all I can say is if for some reason (which I know will not happen) I do smoke again. I get my money back at least. Patches, hypno or accupuncture don't offer that.

[nsd_user663_1704]

Congrats on your quit and your confidence. Glad it worked for you, alas I know theres quite a few people that it hasn't worked for but they stay determined and find their own methods to suit, which is the main thing in the end!!

As long as we are quit eh?

stay strong x x

[nsd_user663_2876]

You are right, it is good as long as we quit. But I think there are two ways to quit. You can quit by traditional methods and feel like you are losing something the word "quit" in itself or "give up" implies that we are actually missing out on something by not smoking. You can go through life thinking you are always going to miss smoking. I didn't want to be that way. T

he good thing about easyway is it makes you realise that you are not losing anything, you choose not to smoke, there is nothing to "give up". It makes you realise we are all brainwashed into smoking, we are not stupid, even non smokers are brainwashed with ideas about smoking! It removes the desire you have to smoke, it removes any reason you wish to smoke for. I guess if the people who fail with easyway, haven't understood that there is nothing to smoke for. That there is no pleasure in smoking. Or have not removed all of the brainwashing!

I really feel strongly about this method. If think if we all chose this as a way to stop first, then there wouldn't be so many people going back to smoking, or suffering from "giving up" their fags.

[nsd_user663_2162]

Hi there, I too quit while reading Allen Carr's book and it worked wonderfully for me, I am really glad it's working for you too

Luckily though there isn't just one method to quit and many people on here did succesfully quit through other methods and without feeling that bad at all :) I reckon it's a matter of what triggers your need to quit deep inside, mine was triggered by a strong desire to be free from the addiction so the book did really make sense to me, but for other people it just won't and it's ok all the same

[nsd_user663_2813]

As I said when I first joined the forum that I quit because I was taken into hospital with pneumonia. Obviously I couldn't smoke while in there and I was too ill to feel any withdrawal symptoms. When I came out I decided that if I could go 2 weeks without smoking I could give up completely and that was that. It's 6 weeks now since I last smoked and I still get the urge every now and then but I just grit my teeth and say no to myself. I also count up the £10 a day smoking was costing me and congratulate myself I've saved about £400 up to now, that's a real incentive.

Everybody's different and not everyone finds the same method helpful. I won't accept that there's anybody who can't quit because, believe me, if an old dyed-in-the-wool smoker like me can give up - anyone can.

[nsd_user663_2142]

Hi Purple. I just want to congratulate you for a job well done.