QUIT IT for LIFE!

The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently Penguin Health Care and Fitness

This is a companion volume to “Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking”.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars 3 Years On
Having read the other user reviews, all having been written within a relatively short amount of time after stopping smoking, I thought it to be important to write a short review a few years on.

I read this book a little about three and a half years ago. I took it seriously, followed through with the reading of it and gave the process of stopping smoking it’s due, and it really did work for me. Where the book really works is in hammering home the points that you need to hear, and giving you some structure in which to prepare.

It’s a long book, it needs to be, and it focuses the effort on the preparation for stopping smoking, making actually having stopped much easier.

The elation at ceasing any self destructive behaviour can make one very grateful and therefore enthusiastic about the method used in the short term.

Long term, I have found “The Only Way To Stop Smoking Permanently” to be a very solid method. I have been a non smoker for over 3 years since reading this book, and haven’t smoked a cigarette since that final one at the end of the book, back in 2005. I’m still grateful to myself for having read this book, and to Allen Carr for having written it.

5 Stars It does work
Trust me, if you read this entire book and continue smoking it is because you are not really ready to quit.

4 Stars It really works!
I bought this book on the recomendation from a friend. I was about 1/4 way through it when my girlfriend decided to start reading it. she finished it in a day and a half, and instantly proclaimed herself a non-smoker. I read it over the course of a week, but I, too, quit after reading it. It’s basically a brain washing motivational type book. It reiterates how awful smoking is, what it does to you, how much it smells, how bad it tastes, etc… Whatever you want to call it, the fact is we both quit after reading it.

5 Stars UNBELIEVABLE
If theres a book that changed my life, it is indeed this one ! Allen Carr has hit the jackpot i think. I could relate to the entire book and have been through what he has written.I WAS a smoker, and a chain one, might i add, like 25-30 cig. every day for over 13 years and have tried many ways to quit.None worked for more than 6 months. Besides being able to quit, this book has eradicated the thought of a smoke for nearly a year now. I dont even want to smoke when eveyrone around me is smoking, and THAT IS AN AMAZING FEELING.Anyone who wants to quit, read the book IN ONE SITTING. i started at 9am and finised by 12 midnight and it worked. so all the best to the would-be non smokers. WELCOME TO MY WORLD !

5 Stars I Was Hopeless and Desperate
I began smoking at 15. 28 years later I was desperate and hopeless that anything could get me to quit. I tried gum, patches, cold-turkey, cutting down, etc.. through the years. I even had some of those exceedingly dumb smoking moments such as hot ashes burning a hole in the fabric of the car when I was trying to flick them out of the window, the wind carrying the butt back into the vehicle when I was flicking outside…. You’d think things like this would’ve woken me up…. but I just chastised myself, and made sure to be “more careful”.

The longer I went on the more I became convinced that I would never, ever, be able to quit smoking and that I would end up ill and eventually die early from a smoking related disease. I HATED being a smoker, I hated being ashamed of being a smoker, I hated the smell, the taste, the panic, the designated smoking areas that were full of putrid fumes, filthy cigarette butts, ash trays, filthy ground where people just threw their discarded butt ends…. I hated the dizzy spells, ringing ears, yellow teeth, horrible smoke smell in my hair and on my fingers, the cost… and yet, I kept on smoking.

I found this book and looked into Mr. Carr’s information online before I purchased it. I was skeptical, but hopeful that finally I would find an answer that would end this nightmare once and for all.

What I discovered was not THE answer…but SEVERAL “THE” ANSWERS, which explained and tore down once and for all the roadblocks and excuses that kept me a prisoner for 28 years. By the end of the book, which took me personally 3 months to read, I was FREE and AM FREE for good.

Some personal recommendations:

1) Some of the content in the book is British slang. If you’re not familiar with the words or phrases don’t get hung up on it if you’re not clear on what’s being shared. MOST all of the book is universal and easy to understand. Don’t let it stop you from reading all the way to the end.

2) DO NOT SKIP TO THE END before reading each chapter. It most likely won’t work unless you understand what Mr. Carr is teaching and why. Plus you increase your chances of falling back into the smoking trap if you don’t have the tools to understanding the trap in it’s self.

3) Take as much time as you need to complete the book. However, DON’T stop reading the book entirely. Keep your commitment to yourself. Freedom from nicotine addiction without trauma, drama, and going crazy IS real and CAN be yours if you keep reading to the end. Plus, each cigarette is like pulling the trigger in a game of Russian Roulette, don’t wait until the fatal drag to quit. Give yourself a chance!

I didn’t think I could be free….but now I am. This book released me from 28 years of hell and opened my eyes to the tricks, the propaganda, the truth behind the tobacco companies and medical community, and why time after time, I would fail my quit attempts. Once I learned the truth, failure wasn’t an option.

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