How I Did It
Sunday, September 16Numerous bloggers have asked me by e-mail how I quit smoking and begged me to share my experience in more detail.
Most smokers don't go cold turkey without any aid, or without even thinking about it for more than just a moment. Those who quit without any preparation will usually take up smoking again within minutes, hours, or days. That's because they experience withdrawals.
Now, here's how to:
I truly believe that you can only become a non-smoker (or ex-smoker), if you suddenly don't feel like smoking anymore. If you suddenly believe that not smoking makes more sense. And if suddenly, you feel an inner desire to kill the addiction within you. Not just for days, but for ever. That's my view.
This method by Allen Carr was also used by renowned politicians, actors, scientists, and other celebrities in order to successfully quit smoking. Ashton Kutcher, Anthony Hopkins, Barbara Branden, Ellen DeGeneres, Johnny Cash, Richard Branson, and Ruby Wax; to mention only a few of them. In addition, numerous companies have offered it to their employees.
His method is available as a seminar or a book. I did the book and it's helped me perfectly.
The book is called EasyWay, it's available in numerous languages, and it costs only like two packs of cigarettes. This is what the books look like in English and German. Click on the book to get amazon's reviews and details on it.
I know. The title sounds as if some snake oil salesman had written it. But it's not.
Wendy Liebman once said “People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!”
My pint of root beer is raised to all those who quite.
Justin September 17, 2007 12:33 AM
Hi BrawnyHunk,
Congratulations on not smoking! I think I know something of what you are going through.
BTW, how did you become such a fluent speaker of English? When did you begin to acquire the English language?
World of Ribonuff September 17, 2007 12:48 AM
@justin: I'm not trying to convince anybody. It's the experience I've made and I feel so much better (to me, it's actually a benefit not to smoke anymore). The 'root beer' was cool, though :-)
@world of ribonuff: did you quit as well? or did you ever have to deal with another 'addiction'? I started acquiring the English language when I was 12. Since the first moment I heard English, I have been obsessed with this language: I just love it!
That's why I keep this blog mainly in English. I would like to speak and talk (hard because of my accent) this language perfectly one day. If there is such a thing as perfection. Do you speak any foreign languages?
simon September 17, 2007 1:56 AM
First of all, congrats! It's quite difficult to give up smoking, but it's not impossible.
I gave up smoking one year and two months ago. At the beginning what made the difficulty was that I didn't know what to do with my hands! I was accostumed to the action of taking a cigarette that for a few weeks I had to control myself...
It was difficult after lunch or dinner... in those moments I prepared a cup of tea to replace it...
After a few months I felt cigarette disgusting!
You only have to decide it!
You can, for sure!
A bear hug,
Christian
PS. Simon, I left a comment the other day in the post "Drunkedy..." but it hasn't appear! Can you check, please??
Christian September 17, 2007 8:28 AM
@christian: wouldn't it be just great if everybody quit?! I cannot find a comment from you on my Drunkedy... post. I must have deleted it by mistake?! Can you comment again? I apologize for your inconvenience.
simon September 17, 2007 9:21 AM
I quit 5 months ago and am so happy that I did. I tried one (in a drunken stupor) a couple of weeks ago and hated it. That was the moment that I knew I had quit for real.
Dana September 20, 2007 3:41 PM
WOW! Good for you......all it took for me was not being able to breath and thinking I was going to pass out. I smoked for 20 years and I can still feel the effects on my body 3 years after quitting cold turkey. Keep it up!
All About D&K October 6, 2007 1:37 AM