Allen Carr Quotes

#1. Quite simply, the key to being a happy non-smoker is to remove the desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no Willpower not to do so.

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#2. Eight hours after putting out a cigarette, you are 97% nicotine-free. After just three days of not smoking, you are 100% nicotine-free.

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#3. Allen Carr saved my life.

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#4. If you haven't got your health you haven't got anything' but it's true. I used to think that physical fitness fanatics were a pain. I used to claim that there was more to life than feeling fit: like booze and smokes.

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#5. The main reason that smokers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that there is nothing to 'give up'.

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#6. However, you cannot force smokers to stop, and although all smokers secretly want to, until they are ready to do so a pact just creates additional pressure, which increases their desire to smoke. This turns them into secret smokers, which further increases the feeling of dependency.

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#7. I would like you to pause for a moment, and to record your own feelings about smoking: what you think it does for you, why you smoke and why you want to

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#8. The effect of the brainwashing is that we tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-story building is heard to say as he passes the fiftieth floor, 'So far, so good!

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#9. was about ten years old. It was called The Geek.

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#10. 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.

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#11. The cigarette gets the credit for everything and the blame for nothing.

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#12. Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

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#13. Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime's chain of filth, disease, fear, misery and slavery.

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#14. Smokers do not smoke because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.

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#15. The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

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#16. There are people who can make love standing on a hammock, but it is not the easiest way.

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#17. Responsibility becomes stressful only when you don't feel strong enough to handle it.

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#18. 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.

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