Allen Carr

"Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime’s chain of filth, disease, fear, misery and slavery."

- Allen Carr

"Part of the ingenuity of any addictive drug is to fool you into believing that life without it won’t be as enjoyable, and/or that you’ll be less able to cope with stress."

- Allen Carr

"What does it do for you? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!"

- Allen Carr

"Get it clear in your mind: CIGARETTES DO NOT FILL A VOID. THEY CREATE ONE!"

- Allen Carr

"Client: “Could you teach me to have an occasional drink and not get hooked again?” Me: “Of course I could. I could even teach you to take the occasional dose of arsenic.”"

- Allen Carr

"You need to stop thinking “I can never ever have another drink”, and start thinking how wonderful it will be when you can stop poisoning yourself."

- Allen Carr

"Smokers do not smoke because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it."

- Allen Carr

"Living with an alcohol problem is just like living with an abusive partner. It leaves you physically battered, destroys your confidence and self-esteem, yet makes you feel perversely dependent on your abuser."

- Allen Carr

"Quite simply, the key to being a happy non-smoker is to remove the desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no Willpower not to do so."

- Allen Carr

"Because when you feel physically and mentally low, molehills become mountains, slight set-backs seem like disasters, and the smallest problem tends to be the final straw to break the camel’s back."

- Allen Carr

"The moment you stop smoking, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you’ve stopped smoking."

- Allen Carr

"If you could isolate the physical feeling, it would barely register as a small itch. I call this the Little Nicotine Monster. There is also a Big Monster in your mind. This is the brainwashing that tells you smoking is your crutch, your pleasure, and that you can’t live without it."

- Allen Carr

"It’s a powerful poison and will shorten your life considerably. It is also highly addictive, will debilitate your immune system and impede your concentration."

- Allen Carr

"Alcohol is a chemical depressant and a powerful poison. It destroys us both physically and mentally."

- Allen Carr

"What you really enjoy in an alcoholic drink is not the drink itself, but the ending of the irritation of wanting that drink. Non-drinkers enjoy that all the time."

- Allen Carr

"You might well get that feeling of a void or wanting a drink, particularly over the next few days. If and when it happens, reverse it immediately."

- Allen Carr

"You could argue that you made a rational decision to try your first few drinks. I won’t argue with that. But supposing a confidence trickster had persuaded you to buy shares in a company that didn’t exist."

- Allen Carr