Client endorsements

Below are some testimonials from clients of the Allen Carr program.  We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoy receiving them.

 

 

My husband attended the Allen Carr's non smoking clinic 10 weeks ago & after 41 years of smoking 2-3 packets per day, is now a non-smoker.

John is now walking - something he had previously refused to do - as he is finding a new respect for his body since ceasing smoking. So, at age 62 he has not only given up smoking heavily, he is now exercising & enjoying it.

Thankyou for the interview (Conversations with Robyn) - & perhaps thankyou for a few more years with my husband.

Anita Hanshaw

 

 

I have just completed the course on the 19th December 2007 and happy to say 'I AM NOW A NON-SMOKER'  

I have been smoking for over 25 years and would class myself as a very heavy smoker, as I would smoke on average 50 a day.

I would smoke 5-8 cigarettes before I left the house in the mornings and just couldn't do without them.  

I did the course with NATALIE CLAYS in Sydney and have had the first Christmas for a long time SMOKE FREE.  

I just can't believe the difference in my life already, my energy levels have gone off the rictar scale, life in general is so much more different and clearer in everyway.   I thought I would send this email to say

"KEEP THIS GREAT WORK GOING" as ALLEN CARR'S EasyWay works 100%.    

Regards,
David Rice

 

 

Dear Natalie,  

After 18 years of smoking I am finally free from the torture and slavery which smoking carries with it. I feel like I am born again. I have a new zest for life which I did not know is possible.

I have more energy now then I have had ever since I can remember. I am now going on daily walks, not because I feel I have to, but because I have so much energy that it's almost automatic. I have so much more energy that I am literally finding it impossible to sit down for more then 10 minutes.   I could take up a whole page writing the benefits I am now feeling. There are no pain's, pang's or any type of withdrawal symptoms what so ever, just a great day, every day.   My only desire now is to convince my family and friends who are smokers to contact you.

I am 100% certain that there is no easier way to become a non-smoker then the Allen Carr way. I never ever thought for one moment that it could be this easy, I just now wish I could convince others.  

Thank you for giving my life back.  

Kind regards,  

Cetin Ozbal

 

 

I have waited 2 months since my session to send this as I wanted to make sure it really worked first (even though I never really doubted it), but I am happy and so proud to say that it has been exactly 2 months since my Allen Carr session and the last cigarette I will ever touch in my life!

Thank you so much for helping me make one of the most positive changes I will ever make in my life. I no longer feel trapped in the deception that I actually ever enjoyed smoking, and I am feeling so much more balanced, happy and healthy since I quit.

I can, and have, highly recommended Allen Carr's Easyway to anyone who realises it is finally time to bite the bullet and quit.

Kylie Jones

 

 

Hi Natalie,

Couldn’t be happier and I’ve been spreading the word about the course and highly recommending it to all who want to stop smoking.

One of the girls at work is trying to do it cold turkey and she’s craving but I’m not. Thanks once again for helping me be a better me.

Melissa Henry

 

 

Dear Natalie,

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you !
It has been one whole year, you have helped to change our lifes.

All the best

Amanda Bryce & Risee Rebello

 

 

If i could convince all smokers to see you i would.  Finally i worked out why the hell i felt trapped for so long.  It's like a feeling of needing to break through a brick wall only to discover once your out that the wall was made of paper.

Thank you, Thank you...

Wadih Hanna - NSW

 

 

Dear Natalie,

Two nights ago I was awake late, and, between cigarette breaks, I was watching television, as I often do. There you were, having a 'conversation with Robyn', and I was fascinated. This was my subject, a discussion about my addiction, a problem I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to escape for a decade.

The following morning my baby sister and I visited our local bookstore and bought a copy of Allen Carr's book-she has been a smoker for twenty two years and I for twelve, and together we have supported this habit through many transitions. Nothing has stood in our way or helped us to give up, we struggle and always we smoke. It took her less than 24 hours to read the book, she devoured it and came out the other end a happy, reformed smoker, like never before.

My turn now!!

I would like to thank you, all of you who support the work of this amazing, honest, good man, who has and will continue to change the world. I look forward to being a non-smoker and helping others to do the same. My name is Effie, my sister's name is Ana and together with our two young boys, who look to us for quidance and example, and who need us alive and well, we thank you. The late Mr Carr, all of you who do his work and Robyn who brought you to my attention will be in our prayers as we go on, better for the freedom. With gratitude and adoration,

Effie Mavros

 

 

Natalie....thankyou, thankyou, thankyou....I know I am free.

I only attended the clinic yesterday but i already know that I am free. i went straight out last night to a party and drank wine and actually got a bit drunk......I didn't feel like smoking once.....eureka its over already.....I know that no matter how drunk I get I will not feel like smoking a cigarettte. I didnt even contemplate a cigarette.

I spent time with my smoking friends and I just felt sorry for them..... it was all so clear.

I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for setting me free its the best thing that has ever happened to me.

Nina Gibbs - NSW

 

I am free. Thank you.

Joseph Hynes - NSW

 

 

Dear Natalie

I attended your clinic on the 9th of September 2006…

I can blissfully report that I am still and will always be a non smoker! Woohooo!

I came home from the clinic and smiled at my wife and announced:

"I will never put those evil things in my mouth again! And I have never been so happy to say it”. It really was quite an emotional moment. I have no shame in saying I cried with happiness all the way home in the car. I knew it was the start of something, not the end.

What I find key; Is that I haven’t given up anything! What I did do, was choose a better life. No longer does my wife recoil at the smell of me. More hugs and kisses!! The list of benefits is endless.

My friends and family were sceptical at first because they could not believe how easy it was for me. “One day clinic and you’re cured? Yeah right!” Yes, one day and you can start celebrating straight away. I went straight home and cracked the champagne.  I had quite a few friends say directly to me – “we’ll see, I bet you’re back on them in a month”. Wrong again.

Hey, I didn’t believe you when you said that no will power was required. But you are right; it is as easy as deciding not to watch a particular TV show.

Thanks Natalie. You were involved in one of the landmark days in my life. I am very proud of myself for making the choice to attend your clinic.

Tony Cleary, Davidson

 

 

Hello Natalie,

I just wanted to thank you for your TXT message the other day, it was very thoughtful.

Just to let you know, i have NOT had a smoke, i have got to the point in the last 3 days where i dont even think about it much unless someone asks me how im going with it.

I have woken up the last three days at 7am and jumped out of bed to start my day, Im feeling so fantastic and everyone keeps saying i look really healthy and random people are asking me why i am smiling so much.

So i just wanted to say, i dont know how you did what you did to me but, i thank you so very much and i just look forward to 3 months down the track from now and how amazing im going to feel.

Thank you thank you thank you.

Amanda, Darling Point

 

 

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Thank you for setting me free.

I attended your Allen Carr clinic on 21/08/06 and it has worked like a miracle.   I’m so happy I’m over the moon!!   44 years – a smoker no more – in one session!

Your session was also very enjoyable and intense and very rewarding, keep up the good work!

I’ll not only recommend you – I’ll be like a walking billboard for you!!

Serena Sicuri, Bankstown

 

 

Thanks for the session on Saturday - it was brilliant!  I have been raving to friends since and can't quite get over that mental image of all those cigarettes in the middle of the room and how poisonous they are.

I am relieved and excited to have had my last one!

Gail L. Sydney

 

 

Dear Natalie,

Just a quick note, and a big thankyou, it has been 5 weeks today since I did the course and I am totally smoke free. I am extremely happy and proud.

The black shadow of guilt no longer keeps me company and I am so happy being a non smoker. I didn't think it was possible. Once again thank you.

Keep up the good work. Happily never again. Thanks again.

Anne - NSW

 

 

Hi Natalie,

Troy is doing excellently thankyou so much!! I am thrilled that he has done the course and has had no inkling to have a smoke.

I read Allen Carr's Easyway book 12 months ago and also gave up instantly, but Troy is not really a reader and found that your course was just what he needed.

He went to a party that night and raved all night to his friends who have struggled to give up that they should look into it- as he told them "it is just so simple and i dont even feel like a smoke".  Thanks again.

Leia - NSW

 

 

Hi Natalie,

Thankyou I'm FREE.....I am 33 yrs old and have been a smoker since 16 after joining the RAAF. I did stop for 2 yrs about 4 yrs ago on my own "cold turkey" and was free, till a friend asked if I woould like a cigar before I knew it I was a smoker again, Allen Carr's book helped me stop again and this time for good.

I made that promise to myself and now enjoy a new rejuvination. The book helps you accept the truth about smoking that we all know but refuse to acknowledge. So thankyou again I'm free.

Adam Andresen, RAAF - NSW

 

 

I have tried and failed various other methods of quitting.

I attended Allen Carr’s Sydney clinic with the hope of becoming a non smoker but with a belief deep down that perhaps no method would ever work. At that time, I was also in a mindset whereby I thought I was thoroughly ‘enjoying’ cigarettes and was not ready to give up.

Unbelievably, I have not had a smoke since attending that day 2 months ago. I have in that time encountered almost every scenario or circumstance that could make me want to smoke - stress, disappointment, drinking, socialising with smokers etc.

From a personal perspective it has not been as easy for me as espoused by this method however, Allen Carr’s method has certainly made it very achievable.

I generally feel less stressed in life, more relaxed, healthier and proud of myself for kicking a life destroying drug habit.

I am now very confident of not having another cigarette for the rest of my life – the thought of smoking rarely crosses my mind. If it happened I would be bitterly disappointed with myself.

Thanks to Natalie and the Allen Carr method of quitting!

Regards, Stephen R. Bondi

 

 

I have been busting all weekend to send an email thanking Allen Carr for writing the book "Easyway to Stop Smoking". It only took me 2 days to read the book and then another 2 hours to listen to his wonderful back up CDs.

I decided to extinguish my final cigarette early on Friday morning and did so with tears of happiness rolling down my cheeks!

I felt a little bit anxious, not because I didn’t believe Allen's method but because I thought I would be the only person on Earth who wouldn’t be able to follow it.

I have been on a natural high since then and keep pinching myself to assure myself that I'm not dreaming! I feel like the biggest weight has been lifted from my shoulders and sincerely want to thank Allen not just for saving my life but also giving me back my life!!

Kimberley Booth, Erina

 

 

Hello Natalie,

I feel very sad to hear about Allen Carr's death. I know he helped many people, and i was definately one of them. I first heard about Allen's method through a few friends who had quit smoking. I had one friend who everyone knew would smoke for the rest of her life, a real chain smoker, and she actually had quit smoking. No one could believe it.

I had been smoking since i was 14 years old. I started smoking to be cool. In the end i decided to quit smoking so i would not die.

In April 2006, my sister passed away from a long 7 year battle with cancer. It started off as throat cancer for her. She was a smoker.
My other sister and i were both smokers. We decided to try to quit together.

We both booked in for Allen's seminar in Sydney, Australia for June 2006. We postponed about 5 times. We were both terrified of quitting. Finally, in September 2006, we attended the seminar. I was quite sceptical about the method. I didnt know how it would work.

Even after the seminar, i was unsure if i could stay stopped. The first week was a struggle. There were definately moments where i thought i wanted a ciggerette. I just kept reminding myself that i actually dont enjoy it and its just like putting on tight shoes, only to get the relief of taking them off.

After that first week, something just clicked inside my brain and it was easy.. I have remained a happy non smoker for 5 months. I am really active and enjoy my life a lot more than when i was smoking. My sister did not stop from the first seminar. She went back for the follow up session and has not smoked since then. I think the reality is that some people have more of a struggle than others, but if you are willing to become free from the addiction, then anyone can stop smoking through this method.

You just have to give it a chance.

Belinda P. - NSW

 

 

Hi Nat

I personally want to thank you so much for helping me give up smoking my and even myself can’t believe it.

I came to your class in the morning being a smoker and left that afternoon a non smoker. AMAZING!

I have already recommended your class 1 person attended through a friend of a friend and they are non smokers. I feel like I have never been a smoker. 

Sam Bonello, Greystanes

 

 

Dear Natalie,

Having attended your course on 9/9/06 no one is more surprised or delighted than I am at my success, having been a 30 per day smoker for 15 years I have not had a cigarette since and have no intentions of ever returning to the nicotine trap.

Thank you, thank you, thank you - the course was worth its weight in gold!

Charlie Milne, Mosman

 

 

I wanted to say how very grateful I am to the late great Allen Carr for his EasyWay stop smoking method, as having been a smoker since I was 15 (now 45) I previously found it all but impossible to give up.  Now, after only a single day clinic I have given up the wretched smokes and am happily a non smoker!!. It was all easily comprehended, very logical and and provided compelling reasons to simply stop.

My two young sons and girlfriend are now so proud of me and happy that I will not hopefully suffer any diseases from the years of smoking, which they regularly saw on anti smoking TV ads but which never did anything to stop me as I always just turned them off.

I hope that one day you can develop no alcohol and other drug type clinics as to give up nicotine must surely be pretty much the most difficult but I have done it, thanks to you.

Best Regards, Dominic Ogburn, Summer Hill

 

 

Hi Natalie

I attended your course on 18 September 2006 and have been happily smoke free for the past 4 months. At the time of the course I had just turned 39 and had been smoking for half my life, I was overweight, suffered from asthma and was very unfit and unhealthy. I had tried giving up so many times I had lost count.

I heard about Allen Carr from a friend who lent me the book and I gave up whilst reading it and did not smoke for 14 months. Unfortunately I did not finish the book and I think that contributed to my relapse.

After smoking for a further 12 months and cursing myself and trying unsuccessfully to hide it from my wife and children I was prepared to travel to Melbourne where I heard they had an Allen Carr Clinic, luckily they had now opened in Sydney and I attended Natalie’s course.

On leaving the clinic I was nervous and unsure – I didn’t know if I was cured, it is hard to know if something has happened if you are waiting for something not to happen – I was waiting not to smoke.

As the next few days unfolded I was beginning to realise exactly how easy it was to be a non smoker, I had not missed smoking, had not craved smoking and felt happy to be free of them. I did not have any withdrawal symptoms at all.

Over the past 4 months my health has improved dramatically and because I have been more active I actually lost 13kg (from 99kg down to 86kg). I have been to numerous functions where I have been exposed to people smoking and I have felt no desire to sneak a puff. Every now and then I will join people at work on a smoke break and talk freely with them while they are smoking - the only difference is now I stand a step back out of their fumes.

It appears to me that the only thing stopping most people smoking is their fear of not smoking. I feel positive that I will never smoke again and I am thankful to Allen Carr for the program that he devised.

I am astounded that he hasn’t been knighted, awarded a Nobel prize or had some formal government recognition for his amazing achievements in helping millions of people to be free of the deadly nicotine trap.

Please feel free to use all or part of this reference, including my full contact details in your campaign to have the Australian anti-smoking lobbies and action groups take on the Allen Carr message. Good luck and THANK YOU !!

Tim Gordon, Leichhardt

 

 

Dear Natalie,

I attended the course in October 2006, very doubtful that I would stop smoking, I wanted to but never thought I had it in me to stop.

After a few hours in the course, I WALKED OUT, A NON-SMOKER.  Thank you very much, am now passing on the word to smoking friends.

Megan Bard - NSW

 

 

Dear Natalie,

I believe it was August 14th 2006 last year I can to your Allen Carr’s Easy-way one day programme and I have not touched a cigarette since.

It has been a total life changing experience for me to the degree that when I smell cigarette smoke it makes me feel sick in the pit of my stomach.

Every person I have the opportunity to talk too who smokes, I have great pleasure in informing them that I was a 16 mg, 40 to 50 per day smoker for 33 years and in five hours I stopped. I never wish to smoke again and the thought makes me ill.

Since having stopped smoking, I have been to the cardiologist who has advised me I am ok with no major arteries being clogged or blocked, but my level of fitness is only just average.

I am currently seeing a lung specialist and after tests my lung capacity is down by 40% and it will take a long time to recover to normal (possibly 10 years) but the lucky thing for me is there are no signs of emphysema on my lungs (after detailed image scans etc) but I have contracted asthma and will be on Symbicort for a very long time as well as after having had a sleep study assessment I am about to go onto a CPAP machine for the rest of my life.

With all the information I have gained through the Allan Carr’s Easyway programme, the quality of my life has totally changed to the positive. I am far better informed as to why I had smoked and why I don’t need to smoke and will never smoke again.  

I am totally amazed that Allen Carr's method is not endorsed by the Quitline, health service, government, QUIT or the Cancer Council, they need a rocket up them.

This is the best method I have used to stop smoking, and I have tried many from acupuncture, hypnosis, gum, patches, hypnosis, and cold turkey and smoking cannabis as a substitute to tobacco, but failed in all cases and here we have a five (5) hour programme that had me walk out the door and not want a cigarette again and have not had a cigarette. They made my life totally miserable.

Rob E Lee - NSW

 

 

YES, I am now a happy non smoker.

I have been free for six months and have a new wonder for living as I feel FREE. I know I will never smoke again as I have no desire to. (not even one).

I found it really easy (first week or two, the odd twinge then no desire to smoke) even though I only attended the course because my friends went, you could smoke during the day and get your money back if failed.

Over the last 20 years I had tried to quit many times with different methods, was miserable and failed every attempt. The scare techniques on packets and TV just made me feel more miserable as I thought I could never stop smoking.

THANK-YOU!!!!

Karen, Mount Colah

 

Dear Natalie,

My name is Barbara A & I attended your 12th Aug'06 clinic. 

I wish to thank you as I'm NOW a non smoker.  I dont know how the Allen Carr clinic works but I feel great .

For your info I WAS a smoker for 45 years!!!!!  Thank you again

BA - NSW

 

 

Hi Natalie, just quick note to let you know that after attending the clinic on the 22nd of April.

I have been Nicotine FREE for the first time that I can remember in my life!  I feel great and you were right - I have no desire and no withdrawal pangs. 

I would like to thank you and even that is not enough.  With Thanks,

Glynda Curtin - NSW

 

 

I'm going great guns and am madly trying to persuade my daughter and a girlfriend of mine to read the book but I guess everyone has to get there in their own time.

If it could work for someone as severely hooked as I was
it can work for anyone. It just puts you in the right head space.

I feel a bit sorry for smokers with the latest campaigns on the smoke packets, and those quitline ads about how much support you'll need to stop, it just makes it even more stressful.

I just wish I'd read the book years ago.

Kathy P. Woy Woy

 

 

Hi Natalie,

I am happy to inform you that I was at the Casino last night among all the smokers, got offered a cig and declined to accept. For me, I believe the ultimate test.  Thanks for your help.

Kamal R, Macquarie Park

 

 

I'm very pleased to tell you that I haven't been smoking and have

found it incredibly easy to resist temptation!

Thanks so much for helping me become a very happy non-smoker!

Anja S, Bondi

 

 

Hi Natalie,

I just extinguished my final cigarette.  It was quite amazing, the revelation.

Whilst I could see what Allen was doing whilst I was reading the book, everything that he said made logical sense and I know that I will never smoke again.

My thanks and appreciation to yourself and Allen.

Matt - NSW

 

 

A very big thank you for all your work last Saturday. I am feeling great...

Lee Webb - NSW

 

 

I am so excited and really have found it so easy.

I am surprised because the book didn't work for me at all. Thank you so much for changing my life, and that of many others.

Deborah S. - NSW

 

 

I can understand why it is called "Easyway®" if those attending your clinics follow your instructions it will be the easiest but best thing that can be accomplished by them!

After your clinic and my last cigarette I have never felt better!

I headed straight to the club, ordered my round of schooners and to my delight found that I could enjoy a few beers with out having that butt hanging out of my mouth.

John Chandler, Coogee

 

 

"It’s been a year now and I want to let you know that I am a happy non-smoker. You have done a fantastic job on me with the Allen Carr Method."

N. B. - Mt. Waverley.

 

" I still don’t know exactly how you did it but I am a non-smoker after 30 years of chain-smoking. I am doing things again! Life is great! "

T. F. - Bayswater.

 

 

"Thank you, thank you, thank you - I can’t believe how easy it was to stop with the Allen Carr Method, when I tried everything else and nothing worked before! I am ashamed I was so sceptical. To be rid of the fear and the feeling of being hopeless and weak-willed is the greatest thing that happened to me."

K. G. - Mitcham.