How I stopped smoking and found it easy?

My father had been reading a best-selling book by Allen Carr entitledThe Easy Way To Stop Smoking so I read it too. The author confesses that he spent 25 years as a smoker and that he got through as many as at least 60 cigarettes a day. He certainly know what it was like being a smoker and about the problems people encounter when trying to quit.

His book is very easy to read and understand and he had a number of celebrities who claim to have been helped by reading it. The actor Patrick Cargill of Father, Dear Father fame endorsed the book by saying: "Allen knows what he is talking about. I was a compulsive smoker, but I stopped smoking with his help. More people should listen to him."

So what is Allen's method you are no doubt asking? Well, it is all summarised in a chapter entitled The Easy way To Stop where the author states: "It is ridiculously easy to stop smoking, all you have to do is two things.

1. Make the decision that you are never going to smoke again.

2. Don't mope about it, rejoice about it."

So that is really all you need to know, and I can vouch for that advice being the truth. But get the book if you feel you need to know more about the subject.

What I did was this: I said to myself that after I finished the last cigarette in my current pack of 20 that I was never going to buy any more and that I was never going to smoke again. I put into my mind the idea that as of tomorrow I was starting a new life as a non-smoker. I went to bed that night with that in mind.

The next morning when I awoke there were no cigarettes in my house so I couldn't smoke if I wanted to and I was already mentally primed not to want to. I carried on with my day as normal, although not smoking was a big change to my routine.

I actually had no trouble getting through that first day and kept mentally telling myself how clever I was. This is something I kept on doing until I know longer even thought about smoking in the weeks ahead. I kept telling myself how I was cleverer than all the people I knew who were still hooked. I was "rejoicing" in having quit smoking!

Many people have since asked me if I had any withdrawal pangs, and I can in all honesty answer, no! In fact, not only did I suffer no such pangs but I felt very self-satisfied and proud of myself as having been able to do this, at having succeeded where so many others fail.

And guess what? When I was next carrying on with my Scientology course I flew through completing the TR drills I had been stuck on and completed the course. I felt that this validated what I had concluded. I had been right about this. And of course this was something more to feel good about, something more to rejoice in. I had stopped smoking, and I had also passed a course I had previously not been able to make any progress in.