A friend of my wife's recommended a book called The Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr. My wife read the book and stopped smoking cold turkey after smoking for 18 years. I read the book and stopped cold turkey after smoking for 33 years and 3-4 previous failed attempts. My wife quit on 11-30-05 and I quit on 12-4-05. We're now both over 1 1/2 years non-smokers. We know of at least 8 other people who have read this book and stopped smoking for over a year.
This book does nothing for the physical side. The first 2-3 days are a little tough from that standpoint but then it's over and done with.
The book does address the mental side. If you want to quit then this book can help push you over the edge so that you get it done. Most people who say they want to quit really don't because they like smoking and they don't want to give up all the benefits of smoking: The great smoke after dinner, the one in the car, the one after sex, the one with your morning coffee, the stress relief, etc. This book helps you to realize that none of that is true. It's all a lie. The only thing you will be giving up is a dirty, nasty, unhealthy, expensive drug addiction that rules your life and makes you a smelly, pitiful drug addict in the eyes of all those non-smokers around you.
However you do it, I hope you can stop. I feel a lot better and the money I save pays for a hell of a nice dive trip! My air consumption is down too!
Good luck!
This book does nothing for the physical side. The first 2-3 days are a little tough from that standpoint but then it's over and done with.
The book does address the mental side. If you want to quit then this book can help push you over the edge so that you get it done. Most people who say they want to quit really don't because they like smoking and they don't want to give up all the benefits of smoking: The great smoke after dinner, the one in the car, the one after sex, the one with your morning coffee, the stress relief, etc. This book helps you to realize that none of that is true. It's all a lie. The only thing you will be giving up is a dirty, nasty, unhealthy, expensive drug addiction that rules your life and makes you a smelly, pitiful drug addict in the eyes of all those non-smokers around you.
However you do it, I hope you can stop. I feel a lot better and the money I save pays for a hell of a nice dive trip! My air consumption is down too!
Good luck!
). Last cigarette was 31 October 1987. My little pea brain still occasionally tries to convince me I ought to have one... maybe this fall, on the 20th anniversary, it'll finally, completely stop 
