Allen Carr Quotes

#1. Allen Carr saved my life.

Allen Carr

#2. I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn't resist the urge to steal a smoke. It was at that time that I was gifted Allen Carr's book 'The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.' After I read that book, I didn't touch a fag again.

Mahesh Babu

#3. Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

Anjelica Huston

#4. 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.

Allen Carr

#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. 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!

Allen Carr

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

Allen Carr

#9. 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.

Allen Carr

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

Allen Carr

#11. I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

Jeffrey Tambor

#12. I guess the best part of music is that there's not much unknown. Especially in country, because it's always someone leaving or dying or drinking or fighting or loving the United States or talking about God, and the music's simple mostly.

Brian Allen Carr

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

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

Allen Carr

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

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#16. 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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#17. And when the twilight of that ride is finally upon us, we will look at the trail we have taken and at the signs of our passage. And though our tears will be many, we will know that great lives have been lived, and that our memories will forever bind us together.

John Shors

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

Allen Carr

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

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#20. I got your strand of hair, I kiss it day and night.

Muddy Waters

#21. Pre-meditation can form in split seconds.

Mark Fuhrman

#22. Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

H. Rider Haggard

#23. 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'.

Allen Carr

#24. It was great fun, But it was just one of those things.

Cole Porter

#25. I ran track, and basically played every sport.

Leigh Steinberg

#26. Instantly, Lucinda fell to the floor in a swoon-" Bronwyn groaned. "Not again!

Karen Hawkins

#27. 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.

Allen Carr

#28. He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. Sorry. I-I didn't mean to. I just- I've been lying here for hours, thinking about blood.

Holly Black

#29. To imagine Canada as a citizen requires that you enter into he mind of someone who does not believe what you believe or share what matters to you.

Michael Ignatieff

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

Allen Carr

#31. A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and reply to their reply ... or replies. And I no longer spend 20+ minutes crafting the perfect email - no need to.

Simon Sinek

#32. You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.

Mick Jagger

#33. There is no secret so close as that between a rider and her horse.

Robert Smith

#34. When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.

Dwight Edwards

#35. 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.

Allen Carr