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you're probably looking at the worst nicotine addicts that has ever been
the first thing i would do in the morning before it put a stitch of clothing on
would be to pick up a cigarette
dangling from my lips, and that cigarette was stuck there just all day, everyday
for thirty-odd years
but one day
twenty years ago
allen carr saw the light
it was so easy, its unbelievable
I went overnight
from chain smoker to nonsmoker without any withdrawal pains at all
and I didn't have the slightest
craving to smoke since
and I suddenly realized that this method would work for all smokers
today carr is so confident of his technique
he's attempting to convince every smoker watching to quit
by debunking 4 great smoking myths
all you need to do is listen
and you too can be a non smoker
First Myth Smokers need willpower to quit
smokers believe that you need willpower to quit
other methods
concentrate on reasons why they should not smoke
the health
the money, the slavery
the filthy habit
the smokers know all these
yet continue to smoke , why ?
on the other side of the tug of war
it relaxes me
it helps me to concentrate
it relieves stress
it relieves boredom
now, they are pretty powerful reasons
to make smokres frightened to quit
just suppose that smoking to none of those things
and actually it impeded concentration
it impeded relaxation
it increased boredom
an increased stress
now you've got 4 additional reasons to quit smoking
you have'nt got a single reason to carry on smoking
once you see that as it really is the desire to smoke goes
and you don't need willpower to quit
Second Myth Smokers choose to smoke smokers believe they smoke
because they choose to
they can remember their first experimental cigarettes
but no smoker
but no smoker can remember the day they decided to become a regular smoker
that's because no smoker , ever did
ask any smoking parents
whether encourage their children to smoke
the answer is invariably and emphatic no
that's because all smokers
sense that they fell into a trap
and i don't want their children to fall into the same trap
if you have ever made just one half-hearted attempt to quit
you've made a positive decision
that you want to be a non-smoker
and if you still smoke
it's not because you choose to
its because you failed to quit
Third Myth nicotine gum and patches work
when smokers quit they believe they suffer
terrible physical withdrawal pains
for nicotine
nicotine withdrawal
is what smokers suffer throughout their smoking life
and it's almost imperceptible, and its the only reason
they like the next cigarette
it gets no worse
when extinguish the final cigarette
the reason that smokers suffer is that they believe they are making terrible
sacrifice
and all substitutes
actually reinforces this feeling. substitutes that contain nicotine
actually prolong the addiction
how can you cure addiction from a drug
while taking the same drug that you are addicted to ?!
it's absolute nonsense
Last Myth Giving up is hard
smokers believe that its difficult to quit
providing you realized that there is nothing to give up, you can quit
not with a feeling
of doom
and gloom, worrying where you've got the will power worrying whether the craving would go
but with a feeling
of utter elation
knowing that from then on you will enjoy social occasions more
and better equipped to handle stress you'll look at other smokers, not with envy but with pity
in the realization that the only reason they are lighting that cigarette
is to try to get to that state
of relaxation
that non-smokers enjoy all their lives. the one thing
that prevents you from doing that , is another dose of nicotine
GOOD LUCK