Reddit reviews Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking

Not affiliated with this or have anything to do with this - but it is a fucking mind changer. If you can smoke after reading that book, you are inhuman. The book even dares you to keep smoking while you read it.

Have you read Allen Carr's book yet? It will help you realize that smoking does nothing to help your stress, and actually makes it worse. All of the "stop smoking aids" in the world won't do anything for you as long as you think there is something to be gained by having a cigarette. Once you realize there is nothing to gain from smoking it gets a lot easier.

I started smoking at 16 and I was in a similar position when I was 22 and began my first real quit attempt. I told all my friends I was quitting and then was so ashamed when I relapsed like 3 days later that I kept up the charade for 3 weeks before admitting to it. The problem I had was that I just didn't know how to start or even where to look for help. It took me 3 more years and a couple more quit attempts before I came across Allen Carr's easyway to stop smoking

I know it sounds like a fucking scam when someone tells you there is an easy way to quit smoking, but honestly this book does a lot to help reprogram the way you look at smoking. You can buy it for less than 2 packs of cigs on Amazon or get it from a library for free.

The truth is tho that quitting smoking isn't easy. But I never had success until I bought that book and gave it an open minded read from cover to cover and followed the steps. It made the quitting process a whole lot easier when I was able to recognize all the brainwashing that cigarettes and advertisers had done to my brain. The first few weeks I was consumed with the thought of having another smoke but now days go by without me even thinking about cigarettes and when I do have thoughts of them it's just an errant memory rather than a desire to smoke.

In a couple days I'll be two months cigarette free and I couldn't feel better. I've more energy, I'm no longer self conscious about how I smell next to strangers on the bus, I never again have to be berated by a non-smoker for trying to get my nicotine fix (seriously, fuck those people), I've cut out a large source of my shame when I would have to smoke around colleagues, my sexual stamina has increased, and I've something to feel proud of.

Seriously, pick up the book and give it an honest effort because you've got nothing to lose even if you can't stick with it but so much to gain if you can.

Amazing. Now stop smoking. It's easy - read this book and you'll stop.

https://www.amazon.com/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking-ebook/dp/B01EVMK0H0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1519655531&sr=8-3&keywords=the+easy+way+to+quit+smoking+book

Honestly, 72 hours of shitty symptoms and your body will be nicotine free. I recommend buying some tea tree oil toothpicks to chew on for something to do to replace the hand to mouth motion, continue exercising, try yoga or other mindfulness measures to help with the mental side. It sucks, but the only way is to bite the bullet and get through. Also, even though it’s meant primarily for cig smokers (which I was), try reading Allen Carr, easy way to quit smoking

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EVMK0H0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_YFT6BbFZT24AF

GOOD LUCK AND YOU ABSOLUTELY CAN DO IT

I quit in September of 2016. At the time, I'd been a smoker for over a decade and was smoking almost 2 packs a day. And I went from almost 40 cigarettes a day to 0 and never looked back.

I highly recommend Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking book. It is life changing! Link!

I saw this thread earlier and thought I should reply, saw all the other posts and moved on. While out running just now, I remembered how I was in your spot (and maybe a bit worse?) and wished I had some help starting out or staying on track. So here I am, telling a really long story on Reddit. Maybe I’ll remember to save this and reshare later.

Mike’s Guide to Deciding to Fix Your Life, Lose Some Weight, Quit Smoking and Run the New York Marathon 5 Times (and eventually buy a Peloton).

At 33 years old I decided that smoking a pack a day, working 70 hour weeks and being overweight wasn’t what I wanted to be as a parent. I was driving to Oregon for work and got a double quarter pounder with cheese at McDonalds (and you know it was super sized) in the drive through. As I finished my burger and it up a cigarette (Marlboro Lights…because LIGHTS! I’m going to quit one day), I noticed my pants were tight. Not normal pants. My fat pants. For anyone who has ever been fat…you know what I’m talking about. I don’t know if this is still a thing, but at the time, I never remembered seeing sizes about 42 (which was what I was wearing). I realized I might need special pants—and not utilitarian pants…but pants because of my size. I hit bottom (mine…).
The next day I was at work, and was outside smoking with people half my age and thinking…wow this is what looked like smoking at 18. I looked around and then saw someone about 10 years older than me smoking…worse skin, stained clothes from it, etc. I didn’t want to become him…but was still stuck as that kid.

I devised a plan. I stuck to it, and went from 205 (all fat) > 165 (All skin bones) and now 180 currently, but stronger than I’ve ever been.

A bit of random commentary before I start:
• Quitting smoking is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Ever. Looking back, however, it was the best choice I’ve ever made. I have never missed it.
• Second thing: You have to change who you are and how you do many parts of your life. This isn’t easy. Your family needs to understand why you are doing what you are doing and support you. They don’t to have to come along, but they can’t take you off course.
• Do it for you. Don’t do it for anyone else. If you do it for someone, you’ll resent them. Quit smoking to live longer or to be a better role model for your kid, not because your family wants you to.

The order this goes in, I’ll explain why:

1. Fix Your Diet.
   
2. Get Active
   
3. Quit Smoking
   
4. Get More Active
   
   Fix Your Diet
   Note that this does not say ‘go on a diet’. Going on a diet is temporary. You got where you are today based on ‘not being on a diet’…so as soon as your diet ‘ends’ you’re right back on the road. I read Atkins, Keto, all of them. They all say the same thing: Eat less of (thing), Profit! At the end of the day, I figured I’d be bad at any conformist diet. I like bread. I like meat. I like milk. Hell, I even like cake!
   My diet is simple. To maintain my weight, I have 2000 calories a day. If I want to drop weight I eat less calories. 3500 calories = 1 pound of fat. What no one ever explains when you are a kid is that it is a net sum game. Over course of a week/month/year/life, going over calories gains weight, under burns it. If you eat 14,000 one week (2k/day) and 17,500 (2500/day) the following you will gain a pound. Even if you go back to 14k the next…that pound is still there.
   Track your food with apps like lose it or my fitness pal. Find what your healthy diet is…what the right serving size is (WEIGH YOUR FOOD), do the math and run tally. It doesn’t matter if you only eat Snicker’s bars all day every day. Stick to this and you will lose.
   I did 1500 calories a day to lose a pound a week without making changes to my exercise.
   
   Get Active
   I was perhaps more out of shape than you, but I couldn’t walk a mile without wheezing. Get a treadmill. Get a peloton (!) and get on it every day. Every. Day. 30 minutes. Every. Day. If you say ‘well I don’t have 30 minutes’ you are lying because you are on reddit right now. Find what works for you to be dripping sweat at the end of 30 minutes. Maybe that’s walking. Maybe its running. Add incline/speed or whatever every time it gets ‘easy’. (note from prior commenter: It never gets easy. My comments: its always rewarding)
   Prepare to be the slow go at the gym. Or low on the leaderboards. Or have one of the hyperfit instructors talk about 90 cadence and 60 resistance when you can’t even breathe. Do your best effort 100% of the time and it will come. The smoking will make this harder and hell, after you get off the bike/run/treadmill have a cigarette, I did. You’ll start to notice something though….breathing is important.
   
   Quit Smoking
   So, quitting smoking. Early commenter recommended vaping; I’m not a fan. Cigarettes are an addiction and saying that (to me) is like saying ‘Heroin? oh man those needles are bad for you, check out meth!’. I personally recommend a book called the Easy Way to Quit Smoking by Allen Carr:
   https://www.amazon.com/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking-ebook/dp/B01EVMK0H0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1518225081&sr=8-2
   I never looked at smoking like an addiction nor did I understand how that cycle worked. Read the book, and just decide to quit and fight it. It isn’t easy. It’s the hardest thing you’ll ever do. I promise its worth it.
   Side tips to this: make yourself uncomfortable while quitting. Hang out with smokers. Go outside on smoke breaks with them. Drink! Go to bars! Don’t smoke. These temptations don’t go away—learn early that you can win.
   Wait a minute? Why shouldn’t I quit smoking first? Great question reader. You will, as a side effect of quitting smoking lower your heart rate (which is a good thing) but it will mess with calorie burn a bit. In addition, while quitting you will be hungry like never before. You will want to eat EVERYTHING to ease the nerves. You will probably gain weight. If you fix your diet first and don’t go over (EAT ALL THE VEGETABLES) you won’t gain as much. If you’re exercising you’ll see breathing benefits fast and can use it as a stress burn.
   
   
   Get More Active
   The world is your oyster. Run a 5k. Run a 10k. Run a Marathon. Get Peloton crazy. Climb a mountain. Do some shit. Its fun. 😊
   
   
   

I've heard great things about Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking, both for smoking and gaming.

The outline is basically on the author's site, but the book itself is more motivating.

Everyone has their own way but this is the concept that allowed me to quit and never look back:

Mindfulness. With every inhale ask yourself why you are smoking? What benefit does it have? Is it enjoyable?

As others mentioned, Alan Carr's Easy Way To Quit Smoking was very influential in this process. Highly recommend picking up a copy, if you aren't sure it's worth the price pm me your address and I'll send you a copy.

There is a great book that helped me quit 15 year ago. The book is called "Easy way to quit smoking" by Alan Carr. The book actually helped millions of people, including a bunch of my friends. Effortlessly. You read it while smoking, and by the end of it you just don't want to smoke any more. It's truly amazing, i suggest you try.
The secret is - try to read it in one sitting.
Found it: Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EVMK0H0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_BxfFAbSJ47AWR

Never been a habitual nicotine user, but all my friends that were swear by this book. More specific to smoking but it worked for all of them so might be helpful. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EVMK0H0/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_t1_pyOzDb8W68HV6