Top Bloke!

[brash]

Allan Carr. Finally - after 25 years of slavery! I have stopped! It's all down to this guy.

Anyone wishing to stop smoking. I highly reccomend his book.

Regards

Frank

[TillieTrotter]

Brash, twas a long time ago, but managed to give up for nearly a year (poor I know) after reading his book. Just asked to borrow a copy from a friend for yet another attempt. Well done you(tu)

[mockney piers]

>Just asked to borrow a copy from a friend for yet another attempt.

You see, this is the Alan Carr method through and through.

I'm convinced he's sowed the seeds of failure into this book, such that you need to keep buying it intermittently. Have seen Mrs Mockney 'succeed' using the book a number of times now.

In the end I threw it in the bin (or she lost it somewhere if I'll be honest). She's going for the willpower method.

I've always said you have to just stop in your head, it's the only real way, and ultimately you can't trick your own head, not even with all Alan's techniques.

[*Bob*]

Good for you, Frank.

As Mockney says though, I have several friends who have 'succeeded' with Alan Carr 'more than once' ha ha.

Surely the greatest aid to giving up is now the smoking ban itself?

[bawdy-nan]

I did it once with willpower (succumbed after about 6 months) and the second time around used nicotine gum and pregnancy followed by trying to get fit. I think the initial thrill of health you feel after giving up for a few weeks fades and the best thing is to try and take up some exercise to get the health thrill. Ultimately you just need another less harmful addiction. I've stopped now for 3 1/2 years. Still get an itchy feeling in my fingers now and then but did once try to smoke (in self-abusive spite) and hated it so much its completely put me off - ysy! Don't even do it when I'm heading to the bottom of a bottle ...

[Jah Lush]

Fat lot of good it did him though...(Allan Carr that is), the book may have enhanced his bank account quite considerably, but he still died of cancer.

[TillieTrotter]

I know, the irony!!!

[*Bob*]

"There's no pockets in shrouds", as my Grandad was fond of saying (shortly before dying penniless in a council house whilst puffing on a Woodbine)

[Jah Lush]

TillieTrotter Wrote:

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> I know, the irony!!!

Sorry, I didn't notice there was any ironing involved.:-$

[brash]

Thank you all for your support. Much apprieciated! I would have given Allen, or anyone for that matter, all I had for the freedom from nicotine addiction I now have.

Frank

[Klaus]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Fat lot of good it did him though...(Allan Carr

> that is), the book may have enhanced his bank

> account quite considerably, but he still died of

> cancer.

Didn't someone see him filming on Peckham Rye a while back? ;)

[mockney piers]

A different Alan Carr (camp comic) as opposed to Allen Carr (ex smoker in both sense of the word (ex, not smoker))

[brash]

TillieTrotter Wrote:

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> Brash, twas a long time ago, but managed to give

> up for nearly a year (poor I know) after reading

> his book. Just asked to borrow a copy from a

> friend for yet another attempt. Well done you(tu)

Never give up giving up!

Good luck Tillie!

[TillieTrotter]

Cheers for that Brash, same encouragement back to you mate(tu)

[TillieTrotter]

And Jah, a girls gotta do something with her hands whilst attempting to stop smoking. It may as well be the ironing!>:D

[ratty]

I am on day 22 of giving up and am attending the Smoking Cessation Clinic at the Maudsley Addictions Research Centre. Taking the new Champix drug and doing good!

[TillieTrotter]

My mother is doing the same Ratty, she feels like shes on the up! Well done, think I will join you soon