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by toddkazakov 3161 days ago
I was smoker for 9 years - I thought I enjoyed smoking, I can't live without it, etc. A friend recommended a book - Alan Carr's Easy Way. Tried quitting before and it never worked. After reading the book it didn't feel hard, it just made sense. Recommended the book to 2 friends who also quit. Give it a try.
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I would also recommend this author's "Easy Way" book for quitting drinking, if that's something you're interested in. I read the book over the course of 2 days, and in that time experienced a complete paradigm shift wherein alcohol suddenly lost all appeal to me. Before then I knew drinking was causing me more harm than good, and I knew the deleterious effects of consuming it, yet I never felt compelled to do anything about it. After reading the book, drinking alcohol just didn't make sense to me anymore.
I'd just like to say that this helped my father who smoked for over 20 years.
Good book, but a little on the repetitive side. It didn't do it for me, but I think that's because a lot of the points he makes are things I already thought of constantly.
The repetition seemed like some form of deliberate hypnosis. I would read the repetitive parts and my mind would start to criticize how it could be so poorly written, and by the end of the book I had quit smoking after over 10 years and not even thinking I would ever even want to quit when I started the book. (and still quit after 10 more years)