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From the desk of John Dicey, Worldwide Director, Allen Carr’s Easyway HQ – London

For nearly 30 years Allen Carr’s Easyway stop smoking method has been delivered live, in person, to those who want to quit smoking.

Most people who attend one of our stop smoking clinics around the globe need just one session to be free from cigarettes. But – for the few that require them – we also provide free of charge back up sessions. The reason we run these is because they work! I guess that seems to be stating the obvious – but sometimes those who require a back up session can feel hugely defeatist about returning for another session. I think that’s understandable given the amazing reputation that the method has acquired over the years. We’ve cured tens of thousands of smokers at our original London clinic but the number would be much reduced were we not to offer the free back up sessions.

Edward Trotter who attended a back up session at our clinic in London tells his story:

“I used to smoke up to 100 a day, depending if I was out or not . It has now been nearly two years since I last had a cigarette. That’s how long it’s been since I last went to Allen Carr’s Easyway clinic for my back up session. I could have gone for a third time as well – had I still felt the need to smoke but I didn’t. I didn’t feel I needed to; I was as they had told me that I would be. I was FREE.

Can I remember the defining moment? Yes, no, er maybe! Do I miss smoking? NO WAY!

I had tried the book the first time, it worked at first, I began to think “right I have sussed it” then I had that fatal “just one” cigarette and I was hooked again. I tried the book again but it didn’t work as it had before. I thought “I’m stuffed”. Little did I know that a few years later I would go to the clinic and this time and walk away free.

What drove me to the clinic was a bad coughing fit which generated a splatter of blood. Off I went to my doctor who recommended I should go to Allen Carr’s Easyway Clinic. I had already convinced myself I was going to die a smoker; I had read the book it had worked for six months so decided I had better listen to the doc and try the clinic.

It took a couple of sessions but it worked – I am forever thankful. so here is a toast to Allen Car Easyway To Stop Smoking!

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You”

Whether you want to attend our stop smoking clinic in London, Birmingham, Reading, Staines, Heathrow, Bournemouth, Southampton, Maidstone or one of the 30 other locations in the UK or the 150 cities around the world visit www.allencarr.com and click on your country’s flag to find your nearest clinic.

It’s great to stop smoking and feel free rather than stop and feel like you’re giving up smoking.

Posted on 12:47 Feb 28, 2012 by John Dicey, Worldwide Director

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Amazing stories of people who stop smoking using Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking Method - Katy Smith, UK

From the desk of John Dicey, Worldwide Director, Allen Carr’s Easyway

It’s great to hear from so many people who use Allen Carr’s Easyway throughout the world. The endless pages of testimonials which are left on our website tell their own story (there are thousands and thousands of them). You can browse through them on this link:

Having said that – it’s even more wonderful when we receive even more detailed information about those who stop smoking with us.

I’m Katy Smith from Batley, West Yorkshire and I stopped smoking 6 years ago.

I had tried every method to stop that you can think of; nicotine patches, nicotine gum, hypnotism, acupuncture, cold turkey….the list goes on! Then I read an article in a Sunday newspaper’s magazine about Allen Carr and decided to order the book and give it a go.

I bought Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking book and never looked back. Being able to smoke while I read the book really took away the pressure. When I got to the point when I was ready – just after Christmas – I picked up the book and put down the cigarettes. Until that day I had smoked 20-30 cigarettes a day.

I did not consider smoking a habit but more of a hobby but the book made me see that I had never been in control of the “hobby” and instead it controlled me in every element of my life. All of a sudden, once I stopped smoking, I had extra hours in the day. Where before spare time was spent standing at the back door smoking now I could spend time with my family. It was miraculous.

I like to think of myself as an un-official ambassador of Allen Carr’s Easyway technique. Whenever a smoker tells me they want to quit I write down the name of the book and give it to them.

I think the secret lies in the lack of substitution. Allen is absolutely right, when he said that by replacing cigarettes with a nicotine patch, or nicotine gum or whatever kind of tablet – you are exasperating the feeling of deprivation.

By becoming an Allen Carr’s Easyway HAPPY non-smoker, there is no deprivation but instead, a completely new way of life.

Rest in Peace Allen, the truth is that I and many other will lead longer and healthier lives because of what you taught us!

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We never tire of hearing stories about how those who attend Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking Clinics or read the books stopped smoking. For information on how you can quit smoking easily – without having to suffer and feel like you’ve quit anything or feel like you’ve given up smoking – click on your country’s flag at the top of this page.

Posted on 17:06 Feb 27, 2012 by John Dicey, Worldwide Director

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The Growing Worldwide Stop Smoking Team - New Zealand

From the desk of John Dicey, Worldwide Director, Allen Carr’s Easyway

We are so fortunate to have so many incredible people within Allen Carr’s Easyway organisation across the world. Some smokers find it really hard to imagine being able to stop smoking easily as opposed to battling to give up smoking as they have done in the past. It can often be interesting and inspiring for them to hear how our team around the world has been brought together. This is the next installment in a series of features that look at the journeys taken by members of Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking Therapist team from being some of the most prolific and active smokers on the planet to becoming happy non-smokers and world-leaders in the field of stopping smoking.

Laurence Cooke, Allen Carr’s Easyway New Zealand writes:

I had my first cigarette at age 11. As a teenager I already knew I was hooked. I remember trying to quit by switching to clove cigarettes. But they just made my lips numb and made me feel deprived because I couldn’t have a “real” cigarette. That feeling of deprivation accompanied all of my quit attempts during my twenty plus years as a smoker, and it was the reason why I could never survive for long before caving in. In the end I became very good at avoiding the topic of quitting entirely. It was something I would definitely get around to one day … but the time was just never quite right.

Then one day I offered a friend of mine a smoke and he shocked me by telling me he’d quit smoking. It was the way he said it that struck me. He wasn’t saying “I’d love one, but I can’t, I’m trying to quit,” he just confidently announced “I quit. I read a book by a guy called Allen Carr. It was easy.”

I hadn’t heard anyone talk about quitting smoking like that (easily). I knew I had to get that book. But then the fear kicked in, the fear all smokers know, “but will I be able to enjoy life as much without my cigarettes? And how will I cope with all of the stress that I’m under? And will I suffer that feeling of deprivation again? Will I always suffer it?”.
So stupidly I put it off and wasted another year in the nicotine prison.

Then in May 2004 I finally read Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking. I felt elated when I finished the book and smoked my final cigarette. On the first night I went out for drinks, surrounded by my smoking colleagues. It felt so different this time; I just had no desire to smoke. Several drinks later still no cravings. When I woke the next day, I knew for certain I was free and I started recommending the book to others. I sent a copy to my brother who also stopped smoking immediately. Nine months later he required an urgent heart by-pass operation. Had he still been smoking, he would probably have been refused the operation.

It didn’t take long to dawn on me that Allen Carr saved his life, not to mention my life and the lives of millions of other smokers. Later, I applied to join the Easyway organization and now I consider it a privilege to be able to conduct the seminars in New Zealand.

Details of Laurence’s stop smoking seminars in New Zealand can be found on the Allen Carr’s Easyway New Zealand website

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For more information about how to get help to stop smoking with Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking Clinics and how to find it easy to stop smoking rather than feeling like you have quit smoking (and feel deprived) click on your country’s flag at the top of this page.
Did you find it easy to stop smoking rather than feeling like you had to give up smoking or sacrifice something? Maybe you could help to spread the word?
Do you know of anyone who you would like to help stop smoking? Tell them about this feature and if they mention it when they book a session at any one of our stop smoking clinics across the world they can obtain a 10% discount (not valid in conjunction with any other offer or promotion).

Posted on 14:11 Feb 21, 2012 by John Dicey, Worldwide Director

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Amazing stories of people who have used Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking Method - Marija Kochevska, Macedonia

From the desk of John Dicey, Worldwide Director, Allen Carr’s Easyway

It’s great to hear from so many people who use Allen Carr’s Easyway to stop smoking method throughout the world. The endless pages of testimonials which are left on our website tell their own story (there are thousands and thousands of them). You can browse through them here.

Having said that – it’s even lovelier when we receive more detailed information about those who stop smoking with us.

My name is Marija Kochevska, from Skopje, Macedonia.

I was smoker for 10 years and I used to smoke a lot! 40 or more cigarettes every day I thought I enjoyed smoking. I thought I loved it.

But I could feel each and every cigarette hurting my throat, it bothered me so much – I was scared of not being able to breathe.

I couldn`t run even for 1km. My constant lack of energy was annoying and embarassing – I was spending days in my bed and didn`t even know that the cigarettes could bother me that much. I wasn`t ready to acknowledge that they were actually the reason I was so much tired, lazy, and overwhelmed. I tried several times to quit smoking without any success. Then I finally found what I needed the most. This book (Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking) helped me and gave me the exact kind of support and information that I needed all along. It felt like a friend that had already been through the same, and now is there just for you – helping you to escape like they did.

Now I go to gym every day, my mind is clear, my fear is gone, and I breathe without any pains in my chest. Thank you, Allen Carr!

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We never tire of hearing stories about how those who attend Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking Clinics or read the books stopped smoking. For information on how you can quit smoking easily – without having to suffer and feel like you’ve quit anything or feel like you’re giving up smoking – visit our website

Posted on 12:20 Feb 14, 2012 by John Dicey, Worldwide Director

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The Growing Worldwide Stop Smoking Team - Mauritius

From the desk of John Dicey, Worldwide Director, Allen Carr’s Easyway

We are so fortunate to have such an amazing group of people within Allen Carr’s Easyway organisation across the world. People who want to find out how to stop smoking easily sometimes find it really hard to imagine that it is possible. They are so used to attempts to quit smoking ending up feeling like a never-ending fight that leaves them feeling miserable and deprived of cigarettes. In their search for a way to stop smoking it can often be inspiring for them to hear how our team around the world has been brought together. This is another installment in a series of features that look at the journeys taken by members of Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking Therapist team; from being some of the most prolific smokers on the planet to becoming happy non-smokers and world-leaders in the field of stopping smoking.

Heidi Hoareau, Allen Carr’s Easyway Mauritius writes:

I first tried to stop smoking when I was 24 years old after being diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis, a potentially crippling, chronic auto immune disease. The diagnosis came as a shock but what felt even worse was being told that it could have been triggered off by my heavy smoking. You are not supposed to get sick from smoking at 24 years of age… that’s never going to happen to any of us, we’ll have stopped years before it affects our health… well that’s what I had always told myself. What I didn’t realize is that when I lit that first cigarette at 12 years old I had lit the fuse of a time bomb… I just didn’t know how short my fuse was. Needless to say I felt very stupid, but did all that stop me smoking? Not a chance…..

It did start a process of me trying to stop smoking… 3 years of repeated failure later, I had tried countless different methods; patches, medication, nicotine gum (tasted like licking an ashtray!), hypnosis, cold turkey (nightmare) and numerous other “miracle cures” and gadgets that are too embarrassing to admit that I spent my hard earned money on. I was thoroughly discouraged and depressed and ready to accept that I was just one of those people who would be a smoker for the rest of their lives.

Throughout this painful process a friend from work kept encouraging me to try this “amazing” method called “Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking”. She swore it had worked for her like “magic”… but here’s the thing… I didn’t believe her. I just couldn’t picture her smoking, she was never bothered by me smoking like a chimney in front of her and she never once acted envious of my smoking, I didn’t believe that she had ever been a “real” smoker like me. She had gone to an Allen Carr’s Easyway seminar in the UK along with a few friends of hers and said that after that day none of them ever smoked again, and what’s more didn’t miss smoking at all. I was extremely skeptical (to say the least).

We didn’t have the sessions in Mauritius at that time so at least I had that excuse not to go but she recommended that I get the book. I never did, I just couldn’t believe that after 3 years of trying everything out there (I mean I’d tried “drugs” to stop for goodness sakes!) that someone was going to help me stop smoking just by talking to me, either in person or through a book, frankly I thought it sounded like nonsense.

Then one day we were at a bookshop together and there was “The Book”… “Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking”… she forced me to buy it… I relented… read it… and never smoked again!

Now when I try to explain to people just how incredibly well this method worked for me I also find myself using words like “magic”. Obviously there is no mumbo jumbo but it just made so much sense, and was so easy to stop, that is how it felt to me, like “magic”.

There is such a difference in my life since I stopped smoking. I have so much more energy, my Rheumatoid Arthritis has been almost completely in remission for years and I am so much healthier and have even lost weight. Most importantly, I no longer feel like a slave to an addictive poison. It is so great not to have to smoke anymore. I feel FREE!

My stopping smoking led to a domino effect among the smokers that I knew, they all saw how happy I was as a non-smoker and wanted to know the “secret” and so I recommended the book… so many stopped it was like “magic”. After 3 years of this the ones who didn’t like to read started calling me for help because I was still such a happy non-smoker, until one of them in frustration said “why don’t you do the sessions here in Mauritius!” … the result of that conversation led me to apply to Allen Carr’s Easyway and I’m proud to say after some really tough training I’ve been an Allen Carr’s Easyway Therapist for the last 5 years.

I’ve had such enormous pleasure by helping so many people just like me who thought they could never be free. I will always be grateful to Allen Carr’s Easyway for giving me back my health, my self-respect and my FREEDOM!

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For more information about how to get help to stop smoking with Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking Clinics and how stop smoking easily rather than feeling like you have to give up smoking (and feel deprived) click on your country’s flag at the top of this page.

Did you find it easy to stop smoking rather than feeling like you had to quit smoking or sacrifice something? Maybe you could help to spread the word?
Do you know of anyone who you would like to help stop smoking? Tell them about this feature and if they mention it when they book a session at any one of our stop smoking clinics across the world they can obtain a 10% discount (not valid in conjunction with any other offer or promotion).

Posted on 15:48 Feb 09, 2012 by John Dicey, Worldwide Director

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