Yeah but smoking is a lot more than an emotional addiction. It is physical and giving up stresses the body in a very physical way. I am wary of these gurus trying to be different.
Hi Peter, nice that you replied to my topic.
Smoking is the most subtle, sinister trap that man and nature have combined to devise.
What gets us into it in the first place? The thousands of adults who are already doing it. They warn us that it's a filthy, disgusting habit that will eventually destroy us and cost us a fortune, but we cannot believe that they are not enjoying it. One of the many pathetic aspects of smoking is how hard we have to work in order to become hooked. It is the only trap in nature which has no lure, no piece of cheese. The thing that springs the trap is not that cigarettes taste so marvellous; it's that they taste so awful. If that first cigarette tasted marvellous, alarm bells would ring and, as intelligent human beings, we could understand why half the population was systematically paying through the nose to poison itself. But because that first cigarette tastes awful, our young minds are reassured that we will never become hooked, and we think that because we are not enjoying them we can stop whenever we want to.
I quit smoking after reading Allen Carrs book, I only started again because I drank alcohol. Alcohol has a way of dulling the senses to what one is doing. I realised after a while that I also had an alcohol problem and read his book on controlling alcohol. At last after 25 years of smoking and drinking I am doing neither. I have freed myself of the two biggest killers man and nature have produced. Allen Carr is far from a guru, the guy died in his seventies of lung cancer after spending 40 years of his life smoking 60 a day, he wrote his books because he had found a sure-fire way to kick the habit (yes of course he saw an opportunity to make money too) any fool would do the same. He should be canonised!
I disagree with what you say above. Have you actually tried to quit smoking yourself? Quitting smoking does not stress the body in any physical way whatsoever, the addiction you speak of is quite mild actually, the feeling of wanting a cigarette is no more than liking the feeling to that of "hunger", it passes if you ignore it.
The feeling does not get stronger, it actually disscipates the longer you go without cigarettes. The nicotine that is in your body actually begins to leave and is completely out of your system within one hour of your last cigarette. The empty feeling or longing for another cigarette is actually created by the cigarette itself. Nicotine is a drug, it is one of the most highly addictive drugs available. One cigarette is enough to addict a smoker. If you believe the brainwashing that cigarettes are hard to quit you will never quit. Allen Carr removes and breaks down the brainwashing in the books, he explodes the myths surrounding smoking. He shows the reader how he/she has been brainwashed since birth into believing smoking is cool, sophisticated and hip.
Buy the book, it costs about 2 pounds and probably the best money you will ever spend.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/014103940X?tag=zeklinkcom06-21&linkCode=sb1&camp=2378&creative=8434 
