Allen Carr (2 September 1934 - 29 November 2006) is an English author of books on quitting smoking and other psychological dependence including alcoholism. He quit smoking after 30 years as a hundred-day chain smoker.
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Biography
London-born Carr started smoking while performing the 18-year old National Service. He qualified as an accountant in 1958. Carr finally quit smoking on July 15, 1983, aged 48, after a visit to a hypnotherapist. However, it was not the hypnotherapy itself that allowed him to stop - "I made it though and not because of the visit" and "I turned on when I left the clinic and walked home...". There are two key pieces of information that allow Allen to stop that day. First, the hypnotherapist tells him that smoking is just a "nicotine addiction," which Allen never felt before then, that he was an addict. Second, his son John lent a medical guide book explaining that physical withdrawal from nicotine is just like "empty and insecure". He claims that these two realizations crystallize in his mind how easy it is to stop and then allow him to follow the extraordinary desire to explain his method to as many smokers as possible.
Philosophy
Carr teaches that smokers do not receive encouragement from smoking, and that smoking only reduces the withdrawal symptoms of previous cigarettes, which in turn creates more withdrawal symptoms after it is complete. In this way drug addiction perpetuates itself. He asserted that "cigarette" smokers feel lit cigarettes, feeling "back to normal", is a feeling that non-smokers experience all the time. So smokers, when they light a cigarette really try to reach a state that nonsmokers enjoy their whole life. He further confirms that the actual withdrawal symptoms are created by doubts and fears in the mind of former smokers, and therefore quitting smoking is not as traumatic as it is commonly assumed, if doubts and fears can be eliminated.
At Allen Carr Clinics during smoking cessation sessions, smokers are allowed to continue smoking while their doubts and fears are eliminated, with the aim of encouraging and developing a non-smoker mindset before the final cigarette is extinguished. A further reason for allowing smokers to smoke while undergoing counseling is Carr's belief that it is more difficult to convince a smoker to quit until they understand the mechanism of the "nicotine trap". This is because their attention decreases as they continue to believe it is traumatic and it is very difficult to stop and continue to maintain the belief that they are dependent on nicotine.
Another unique statement to Carr's method is that determination is not necessary to stop smoking.
The quarrel is that the fear of "surrender" is what causes the majority of smokers to continue smoking, thus requiring smokers' customers to be an illusion of true pleasure as a moral justification for the inherent absurdity of cigarettes in the face of tremendous medical and scientific findings. evidence of the danger. Instead, he encourages smokers to think of stop action, not surrender, but as "escape".
Easyway
Carr left his accounting job in 1983 and set up his first Easyway clinic to seek advice from other addicts. He wrote ten books that emerged as bestsellers in the ranking of selected books including his first book Easy How to Stop Smoking (1985), The success of the original London clinic, through financial benefits, word-of-mouth and direct recommendations , has led to a network of 100 Easyway clinics around the world in 35 countries plus the production of audio CDs and DVDs. Under the full money back guarantee (which requires 2 follow-up sessions without reimbursement of travel expenses), the Carr clinic claims a 90% success rate in helping smokers quit for three months, and a 51% success rate in helping smokers stop for 12 months based on independent research which is not related to any health organization. Celebrity clients include Richard Branson, Anthony Hopkins, Ashton Kutcher, Ellen DeGeneres, Pink, Jason Mraz, Church of Charlotte, and Hrithik Roshan who assist the organization's efforts to expand commercially.
Allen Carr Clinic is run by a therapist who claims they had been a smoker and has used Allen's method to quit smoking. All therapists are members of the association created by Allen Carr's multi-million pound company known as Allen Carr Therapists International (ACTI). ACTI is not accredited by public health organizations or the NHS.
Carr also wrote a number of guidebooks on subjects such as losing weight and stopping alcohol consumption.
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Personal life
At the end of July 2006 it was revealed that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 71 years. The following month he revealed that it was the terminal and his life expectancy was about nine months. Carr said: "Because I was smoking my last cigarette, 23 years ago, I have been the happiest person in the world, I still feel the same today." Carr wrote to Tony Blair, urging the British Government and the NHS to accept his method, saying that the lobbyist's "strong influence" working for a nicotine replacement company has turned him against it.
Carr died, at the age of 72 years, due to his lung cancer, on November 29, 2006. He died at his home near MÃÆ'llaga, Spain.
Publications
- Easy How to Stop Smoking (1985)
- How to Stop Drinking Easy
- The Only Way to Quit Smoking Permanently
- Allen Carr's Easy Way for Women to Stop Smoking
- Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol
- Allen Carr's Easyweigh for Lose Weight
- Easy Way to Enjoy Fly
- Easy Ways to Stop Worry
- Allen Carr's Easy Way to Be Successful
- Small Book of Withdrawal
- How Easy to Illustrate to Stop Smoking
- Burning Ambition
- Allen Carr's How to be Happy Non-smokers
- Good Sugar Bad Sugar
- No More Diet The Easyweigh to lose weight
See also
- Smoking tobacco
- Smoking cess
References
External links
- Official website
- Free Download Allen Carr Book
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