Easyway® vs. willpower

We refer to all other methods of quitting smoking as the ‘willpower method'. The reason for this is that irrespective of whether you are using a patch, gum, acupuncture, laser or hypnosis, there comes a time when you have to confront the real problem: the desire to smoke. You can use as many pills or patches as you want, but if you retain the desire to smoke, you will need to use willpower.

There are many problems with the willpower approach to quitting.

The main one is that smokers feel that they are being deprived of something that gives them pleasure or some other functionality. This feeling of deprivation creates tremendous conflict –

you want to quit, but you are desperate to smoke.

This conflict creates the roller coaster of emotions and, in many cases, physical symptoms that smokers associate with quitting. Even people who succeed using willpower often remain anxious, frustrated and bitter. Everyone knows at least one of these ex-smokers, and part of our fear about quitting is that we will end up like them.

The only way to be a truly happy non-smoker is to have absolutely no desire to smoke.

Allen Carr's Easyway® method is the only method that removes the desire to smoke. By removing the desire, we can remove the conflict. With no conflict, the whole quitting process is easy and, for many people, extremely enjoyable and empowering.