If you want to stop smoking, you don't need this book. It's annoying and makes you smoke more and more. It doesn't help you to quit smoking, if you want to quit, you will already.
Some good points about the psychology of smoking, although about half the book is the author telling you this method will work, which goes around and around, is annoying, and seems fairly pointless. The central point is, you don't need to smoke, so don't. Fair enough
2 stars because I know Carrs easy way has helped many people become non-smokers, and because some of the ideas (towards the end) were good for me.
I do think, however, that all Carr does is encourage a positive attitude towards stopping, and a negative attitude toward nicotine, and what smoking actually is (through reinforcing the same ideas again and again).
I will say the way Carr spoke about any ‘willpower methods’ was frustrating, essentially telling the reader any other way won’t work and encouraging everyone to visit his centres or read his books will! — interesting eh!
Having already stopped smoking a few weeks before reading this I didn’t really find it groundbreaking, insightful or ‘magical’. Maybe if my attitude was different towards smoking (that I actually still wanted to) it may have helped more (?)