Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking - Allen Carr [88]
Doctors, who have been tasked with sticking a band-aid over this gaping wound are over-worked and poorly trained in cessation techniques. More often than not, the best a doctor can do is to say a few encouraging words and give you a prescription for a pill or patch that likely contains the drug you are trying to break free from.
In the meantime, incidence of smoking in movies, particularly in movies aimed at teenagers, has never been higher. We have legislation to make it illegal to purchase cigarettes below a certain age, but no law prohibiting possession. Schools are powerless to implement no-smoking rules, apart from in areas where smoking is banned by state or local legislation. Up until 2003 we allowed tobacco companies to continue to sponsor key sporting and cultural events and to promote their brand to impressionable children along the way. We are virtually guaranteeing that our kids will see smoking as cool, desirable and rebellious rather than sad, disgusting and depressing. In their tens of thousands, they are falling into the same trap we fell into, for the same reasons. I really cannot believe that we are standing by and letting this happen.
It is bad enough that smoking has decimated my father’s, my own and, most likely, the next generation. Are we going to impose this dreadful burden onto yet another generation? Have we learned nothing?
I just don’t understand it. If a salmonella or mad cow outbreak results in a single death we all but call a state of emergency; but here we have a disease which kills around 1,300 Americans a day (and has done for years), yet all we seem to be able to do is tax it.
It has often been said that tobacco is the only legal product that if used precisely as the manufacturer intended, kills you. How many more billions of dollars will we give tobacco companies by way of tax breaks to make products that, sadly, work too effectively? How many more innocent people are we going to let die from this terrible disease? And how many more are we going to allow to become infected with the disease in the first place?
I won’t wish you luck—you don’t need it. Just follow the instructions contained on the following page. Once you have broken free yourself, please spread the word. I really welcome comments and letters from readers so please feel free to contact us via our network of centers.
I wish you every success and all the best for a healthy and happy future free from the slavery of smoking.
Sincerely,
Allen Carr
FINAL INSTRUCTIONS
You can now enjoy the rest of your life as a happy non-smoker. In order to make sure that you do, you need to follow these simple instructions:
1. Keep this book safely in a place where you can easily refer to it. Do not lose it, lend it out or give it away. It’s no bad thing to pick it up occasionally and read a couple of pages. It’ll keep you ‘in the zone’. This is your shortcut to attaining the right frame of mind about smoking. Keep it close at hand, in case you need it. Rather than lend it out (trust me—you’ll never get it back) gift copies to any friends who show an interest in it.
2. If you ever find yourself envying a smoker, realize that they will be envious of you. You are not being deprived. They are.
3. Remember you did not enjoy being a smoker. That’s why you stopped. You do enjoy being a non-smoker.
4. Remember, there is no such thing as just one cigarette.
5. Never doubt your decision never to smoke again. You know it’s the correct decision.
6. If you have any difficulties contact your nearest Allen Carr’s EASYWAY center. You will find a list of these on the following pages.
TELL ALLEN CARR’S EASYWAY YOU STOPPED SMOKING
Now at last you can say
‘YIPPEE! I’M A NON-SMOKER’
You have achieved something really marvelous.
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