Allen Carr Facilitators

The longest I ever managed to stop smoking for was three months. Several times I was able to stop smoking for a couple of weeks but mostly it was only a few hours before I would start smoking again.

As a kid I knew a lot of adults who were “hooked”, and I was warned by some of them and by the school’s “don’t start smoking” campaign. So, I was fully aware smoking was highly addictive. Nevertheless, as a teenager at some point I thought, “I’ll just try one, just to see if I even like it”. “Be careful though, don’t get hooked.”

Since my first beer at the age of 17, I always enjoyed being the life of the party, even being a bit of a party animal.  Throughout college, my career, marriage, and even after starting a family, drinking always played a part in my socializing.

I had smoked for 20 years when I was diagnosed with asthma. I had tried everything to give up. Hypnosis, nicotine replacement therapies, acupuncture and cold turkey but nothing stopped me longing to smoke.

I started smoking at 14 years of age because I thought I was really cool. Unfortunately the cool factor wore off very quickly and that insidious weed had the better of me.

I tried my first cigarette when I was 14. It tasted awful, it made me cough, it made me sick and it was harsh on my throat. I persevered with another and then another and it took me a while to learn how to smoke.

Discovering Easyway was a major catalyst in my life. I’d been a heavy smoker and drinker since I was a teenager. My whole life revolved around the pub, and getting drunk was the norm.

I started smoking in high school to look cool and feel subversive. In college I smoked to control stress and ease my anxiety. Soon, smoking became an inextricable part of my identity.

Thirty cigarettes every day for thirty years, then I stopped. Now I help others to quit smoking. Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking transformed my life.

I tried my first cigarette at the age of 15, trying to look cool and trying even harder not to choke or vomit. It was vile and disgusting and made me feel ill but I was determined to learn how to do it. Twenty years later I was still smoking.