About Allen Carr's Easyway® method

Since 1983 Allen Carr has made one simple (and to most smokers, incredible) claim that any smoker can find it easy to stop smoking with no willpower, no terrible withdrawal pangs and no weight gain. In addition to finding it easy, quitting smoking can be one of the most enjoyable and empowering experiences of your life.

This sounds too good to be true, but take a look at some of our testimonials. Do you see these kinds of testimonials on other quit smoking web sites?

Allen Carr's Easyway® is not hypnosis or reverse brainwashing. It is simple cognitive therapy. It is based on the principle that over the years of smoking we develop distorted thinking about what the cigarette does for us.

For example, we tell ourselves that smoking relaxes us, helps us handle stress, relieves boredom etc. But if this were genuinely true then smokers would be more relaxed, less stressed and less bored than non-smokers. Hmmm.

Allen Carr's Easyway® method demonstrates that these perceived benefits are in fact illusions. Yes, they are powerful and subtle illusions, but illusions nevertheless.

If we smoke to relieve boredom then why do we also smoke when we aren't bored? And why don't non-smokers, who have the same stresses and strains as smokers need a ‘crutch' to get through life?

By demonstrating that there are no genuine benefits to smoking (let's face it, if there were it would say so on the pack) we can see that our perceived desire to smoke is rooted in these false beliefs. Once we remove these false beliefs and replace them with more positive and empowering ones, the desire to smoke is eliminated.

With no desire to smoke there is no need for willpower (willpower is only needed if you have a desire to do something but won't let yourself). With no willpower there is no conflict. With no conflict there is no fear, no panic, no anxiety or many of the other symptoms associated with quitting.

This is why former smokers quitting using this method christened it ‘Allen Carr's Easyway®'.

 

 

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