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Allen Carr – It’s no Smoke!

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Written by Mel Waters

So it’s been 2 years, 5 months, and 20 days since I stopped smoking. Now the only reason and I mean the ONLY reason I know that is because I gave up on April Fools day. Without April 1st as a significant date to remind me I’m sure I wouldn’t have clue how long it’s been.

So that is how long it has been since I sat with other would be non smokers in a room waiting to see if the Allen Carr method of giving up smoking would work.

I entered the room $450 lighter but with a promise that if after the course pending two brief follow sessions, if I was still a smoker I would receive a no quibble refund.

So far I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

After 16 years of the dreaded weed, I knew it was time to stop but had no idea how I could make that happen. How would I get through the day? Would I ever be able to have a glass of wine again without a cigarette? How much weight would I put on?

The name Allen Carr had been bandied around in my exploration of a route to take and I finally decided that Allen Carr was the way to go.

There is no gimmick, no dreadful reminder of the health implications. It was actually a really pleasant and enlightening experience…..and I’m not even a hippy.

The smoke breaks throughout actually made you see how pathetic and dependent we had become on this toxin that had NO – NONE-ZERO-ZILCH benefits at all. By the end of the 5 or 6 hours I was a changed person for the better, I could not believe it and even more unbelievably I left pitying other smokers, I still do. But unlike other non smokers or reformed smokers it was genuine pity not condemnation.

16 years and I felt free at last. My one worry was bad timing and planning had resulted in me hosting a jewelry party at my place that very night. Me, my friends, and copious amounts of wine – this would be the test. True to what we had been told, my smoker friends tried to break my will, my resolve – little did they though know I was not relying on Will Power. They had no power over me.

The Allen Carr experience is just a wakeup call, brings you back to the day you first had a toke on a cigarette, and helps you to realize what a fool you’ve been.

I am now a happy non smoker. In the 2 years, 5 months and 20days since I stopped smoking, I have lost weight, feel fantastic, ran a half marathon and running another one this Sunday. This is no April fools.

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