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The late Allen Carr wrote a number of books on how to stop smoking, having stopped smoking himself after 31 years as a 100-cigarette-a-day chain smoker.

Born in London, he started smoking at the age of 18, while doing National Service, and finally managed to quit at the age of 48, after seeing a hypnotherapist. Carr always maintained that it was not the hypnotherapy itself that enabled him to quit – it was just that seeing the hypnotherapist helped him to realise that it was not going to be difficult to stop.

Carr always argued that smokers do not receive a boost from smoking – it just relieves the withdrawal symptoms from the previous cigarette, and in turn creates more withdrawal symptoms once it has been finished. In this way the drug addiction perpetuates itself. However, he believed that smoking is much less addictive than is commonly believed, and that the withdrawal symptoms are to some extent caused by feelings of doubt and fear in the mind. If these feelings can be removed, then quitting smoking is not as difficult as people think.

This book has received a high number of rave reviews, and it seems that a significant number of people have been able to quit as a result of reading it. Naturally, if people are reading a book about giving up smoking, they are already finding the motivation to give up – nevertheless this book in particular seems to be highly rated.

One of the key points of the book is that it does not require you to actually give up smoking until just before the end, and some claim that by that time you reach the end, you have quit smoking anyway. Some reviewers claim that reading the book actually stops you enjoying cigarettes. There are some criticisms that the book is quite long, and repetitive in parts, but readers also feel that the repetition serves a purpose, and that it works.

So, if you are looking for a book that will help you to quit smoking, this one could be worth a try.

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