Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking
by Allen Carr · first published 1998
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Why HN recommends it
Reframes quitting as a matter of logic rather than willpower, helping smokers see through the myths that keep them smoking. Readers say it worked for them, often with no withdrawal struggle, for anyone wanting to quit.
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Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking I find a lot of my successes are driven by building powerful and convincing narratives about my own life and circumstances. Unfortunately, the anti-smoking messaging that comes form every website, doctor…
on “Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?” ↗Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking. I pay it forward. Stopped smoking six years ago and haven't had the desire to start again since. it feels great. I actually played the nintendo DS adaptation of the book, which was also available on…
on “Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?” ↗The meme that quitting smoking is hard is manufactured to keep you smoking. Imagine who might benefit from this. If you want to stop smoking there's only one book you need, Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking.
on “Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick the Habit” ↗The craving itself is irrational but logic and thinking are useful tools to stop. Allen Carr's "Easy Way to Stop Smoking" is a testament to that. While everyone knows that smoking is bad for health, many people don't know to what extent or have mistaken beliefs about the benefits of smoking.
on “Bangkok Smoking Kid” ↗I also quit directly because of Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking. This is a fantastic book, and I gladly gift it to anyone I know who wants to stop smoking.
on “Bangkok Smoking Kid” ↗…quit drinking too fast. While reading that book, I just stopped smoking cold turkey. I still get cravings every once in awhile especially when I see other people smoking but easy to control now. 1: Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking
on “Ask HN: What vitamins and legal nootropics take every day” ↗I used to think it was hard too, but then I read _Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking_. I followed the instructions and continued smoking while reading the book, sometimes literally standing outside my apartment building with a cigarette and book in hand. I read it all the way through…
on “On Smoking” ↗On the basis of the headline alone, I would say "cigarettes" because I have quit two different social media sites using the technique described in the book "Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking"
on “Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food?” ↗What do you like about smoking? My favorite part was getting to stand outside alone for 5 fucking minutes. Check out Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking, if you're interested. It helped me think a lot more about what I was doing and feeling, and turned out to be useful in a bunch of other areas in my life. I found the audiobook ripped from cassettes as…
on “Let Kids Be Loud” ↗…written as 'general advice' that I couldn't follow it made less motivated to try to find a way to quit. It's was also frustrating to read other people being successful with seemingly 'simple tricks'. "Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking" is another example that has near universal praise, and was mentioned here on HN. Also a total dud for me, which only made me more depressed; there must be something more wrong with me... My suggestion…
on “I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco” ↗…and brother. I was a dumb kid in an industrial town in Iowa - constant opportunity and social pull to consume nicotine. After awhile I didn't want to be a smoker anymore and found a self help book - "Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking." Friends of mine suggested it, and I found a PDF and read it during a dead afternoon at work. Instead of focusing on the "hard" trope of quitting smoking it presented it as easy - hence the title. It…
on “The silent majority of experts (2012)” ↗I believe you refer to Allen Carr's "Easy way to stop smoking".
on “Ask HN: Which strategies work best to reduce/eliminate alcohol use?” ↗To quit smoking, there is something like a 'miracle' book, judging by reviews - 'Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking'. Has anyone here read it? I don't smoke btw.
on “Lungs heal damage from smoking” ↗