Quotes from Allen Carr

porque crean una distracción. Siempre nos concentramos en las razones por las que no deberíamos de fumar, pero nunca analizamos las razones por las que fumamos. La verdadera pregunta es: '¿Por qué necesitamos hacerlo?

Smoking creates an artificial feeling of insecurity and emptiness.

Your ideal weight is the weight you happen to be when you can look at yourself naked in a full-length mirror and be happy with your shape.

Allen Carr saved my life.

only reason you ever thought it did was because each joint brought a little bit of relief from the craving caused by the one before.

We confuse responsibility with stress. Responsibility becomes stressful only if you are not strong enough to handle it.

We very quickly start to feel cleansed, but the Little Monster is demanding its fix. If we're using the wrong method, we interpret these cries as "I want a joint," and although we might hold out to begin with, eventually the Big Monster will have its way and we find ourselves back in the trap.

movie Twelve Angry Men.

Of all the basic human values, surely freedom is the most basic and most important? Who could conceive of anything as stupid as giving away this priceless gift in order to be enslaved to a drug that doesn't even get you high?

You do not need to smoke. It's the last thing you need to do; make sure it isn't the last thing you do.

it is interesting to note and also ironic that cigarettes only seem precious to us when we aren't smoking. When we are smoking, we take it for granted and we're barely even aware that we are doing it.

A smoker's reaction to any stressful situation is to light a cigarette.

For example, those of you who think it is just a habit, ask yourselves why other habits, some of them enjoyable ones, are easy to break, yet a habit that tastes awful, costs us a fortune and kills us is so difficult to break.

Sometimes we look but don't see, listen but don't hear, touch but don't feel. If one sense fails, the others step in.

I closed my mind, prayed it wouldn't be me, kept my head firmly in the sand and hoped that I would wake up one morning with no desire to smoke.

Smokers suffer the empty insecure feeling of nicotine withdrawal their entire smoking lives. Nonsmokers never suffer it

Whenever you find yourself in a situation where you would have written a cheque or handed over your credit card, instead of feeling like you're somehow missing out, think, 'Isn't this marvellous! I don't have to incur any new debts.

The true situation is this: when you are addicted to nicotine and are not smoking, there is something missing.

for me, is the saddest thing about smoking: the only 'enjoyment' a smoker gets from a cigarette is temporary relief from the discomfort created by the previous one. All the smoker is looking for is the state of peace, tranquility and confidence that they had before they started smoking in the first place.

HOW the ADDICTION STARTS • ALARM BELLS • THAT EMPTY FEELING • ONE CIGARETTE LEADS TO ANOTHER • RE-PROGRAMMING YOUR BRAIN • THE KEY TO ESCAPE

Alcohol doesn't benefit anybody except the industry that peddles it. There is no demarcation line between "normal" drinking and problem drinking; it is all part of the same disease. The problem drinker is just at a more advanced stage.

This is a warning from your body: "POISON! DON'T TOUCH!

Less intelligent creatures would heed that warning, yet the human species has been brainwashed to ignore it. Smokers who are already hooked say, "Keep trying, it's an acquired taste.

The desire to drink comes from the Big Monster—the illusion that drinking gives us pleasure or support. • The edgy feeling we get when we're without a drink is merely the Little Monster wanting to be fed. • The Little Monster was created by drinking in the first place. • Therefore drinking does not relieve the anxiety, it causes it.