Once Allen Carr, a 49-year-old accountant and an avid smoker who repeatedly tried to abandon smoking, discovered an easy way to quit smoking, and his life has changed dramatically.Having made sure of the effectiveness of the method he discovered, Allen Carr began to help other people who wanted to quit smoking, abandon cigarettes.Finally, he wrote a book about his method, which is still diverging in huge circulations.As Carr himself reported, the effectiveness of his method is 95%, that is, the vast majority of people who have mastered him cease to smoke.What is the secret of the Allen Carra method?Why is it so effective?
The method is based on the fact that a person opens up for himself, why and why he smokes.In his book “An easy way to quit smoking” Allen Carr gradually leads readers to this understanding.What is smoking?Allen Carr is sure - this is not a bad habit, as is commonly believed.Smoking is a real drug addiction.Moreover, this dependence is not so much physical as psychological.It is based on fear.Smokers are afraid that by abandoning smoking, they will lose the joy of life and they will need incredible efforts and willpower in order to stop smoking.
Cinema, television, the media form the belief that smoking beautifully, cool, that cigarettes relax, give self -confidence.But the most important force in this brainwashing is the smoker himself.
The essence of brainwashing is in the phrase is to quit smoking.This wording involves a certain sacrifice, the rejection of something pleasant.So the majority perceives the rejection of smoking - as a fight with themselves and depriving oneself of joy and pleasure.It is not surprising that so many attempts to quit do not end in anything - a person is the idea of depriving himself of a well -deserved pleasure.
Allen Carr is sure that most ways to refuse smoking do not just not benefit, but, on the contrary, harm.
Many associate the rejection of smoking with the willpower.But she has nothing to do with it.Moreover, when they talk about willpower, a person automatically thinks that he will have to sacrifice a lot.This is confirmed by the stories of the unfortunate people who stealthily inhale cigarette smoke and see dreams about cigarettes.But all this is the result of brainwashing.The way of willpower makes a person deeply unhappy, because he believes that he is forced to refuse to give him pleasure.They think that cigarettes are a source of happiness, and the abandonment of them will make you feel unhappy.That is why the willpower method is ineffective - it supports this stereotype.
Allen Carr is categorically against the use of smoking substitutes - chewing gum and plasters.Why?All of them subconsciously tell you - smoking is pleasure, you make a sacrifice, abandoning it.They convince you that without a cigarette there is a void in you, which you are trying to fill with the help of chewing gum and a patch.
A reduction in the number of cigarettes smoked leads to the same trap.The fewer cigarettes the smoker smokes, the more he thinks of them.This method literally makes us believe that the most valuable thing in the world is the next cigarette.
Many avid smokers envy those who smoke only sometimes.But, as Allen Carr notes, those who rarely smoke, the dependence on nicotine is much stronger - they do not seek to quit smoking and they have stronger confidence that the cigarette is pleasure.
So what is the method of Allen Carra and why is it easy?
To quit smoking to funny is simple.You need to do only two things:
- Make a decision that you will never smoke again.
- Do not fall into depression on this occasion.Rejoice!
Understand the enemy, find out his tactics: then you can easily win.
Allen Carr tried many ineffective ways to quit smoking.When he stopped smoking, from 100 cigarettes a day immediately switched to their complete absence.And he was sincerely surprised that it turned out to be so easy.He could only ask himself the question, why did he not do this before?
In fact, you do not throw anything and do not sacrifice any victims.On the contrary, refusing to smoking, you gain advantages in improving self -esteem, health, control over your life.
Look at smoking not as a negative habit, but as a real narcotic dependence.
Whether you like it or not, but you are sick.The disease will not pass if you just hide your head in the sand.Remember: like all serious diseases, your disease is not only chronic (lasting all your life), but also progressive.The right moment for the treatment of your illness is right now.
Having made the final decision that you have already smoked your last cigarette, you will immediately become non -smokers.The smoker is one of those unfortunates who are forced to go through life, destroying their health nicotine.Non -smokers - one who does not have such a need.As soon as you make a final decision, you will immediately reach your goal.Rejoice at this.Do not sit sadly, waiting for a chemical dependence.Throw smoking and immediately begin to enjoy life.