اصن مشکل من با کتاب های سلف هلپ دقیقا همینه که هیچکدوم جواب نمیدن.
روش این کتاب خیلی اراده میخواد :)) و هر چه قد هم که بگه نباید حس کنید خودتون رو دارین محروم میکنید فایده نداره چون بدن و ذهن به سیگار عادت کرده. و این یه دفعه گذشتن کنار برای من جواب نداد. فکر کنم توی کتاب هم گفته بود اگر با این روش ترک نکنید کلا نمیتونین ترک کنید؟
به هر حال من نه این کتاب رو توصیه می‌کنم نه روش ترک این مدلی رو وقتی خیلی روش های راحت ترهست.
من رفتم پیش روانپزشک برام یه دارو نوشت (اسمشو نمیگم خودتون برید پیش دکتر) به دکتر گفتم من این قرصو بخورم سیگارم بکشم همینطوری؟
گفت نه آقای عزیز بالاخره اراده هم میخواد.
الان میگم تنها اراده ای که میخواد با مصرف دارو این هست که فقط بخواین ترک کنین.
من بعد از مصرف دارو اصلا دلم نمیخواد سیگار بکشم اصن ذهنم انگار پس میزنه حتی بعد از یه مدت مصرف دارو موقع سیگار کشیدن از سیگار بدم اومد و بهم حالت تهوع داد. من روزی یه پاکت سیگار میکشیدم قبلترها.
من دوبار با روش این کتاب اقدام به ترک کردم هر دو بار هم شکست خوردم.
یکی از دوستان هم که مثل من روزی یه پاکتی بود با همین روش شروع به ترک کرد اونم شکست خورد.

This book is retarded. Seriously, it is a stupid book.

But it works!
Been smoking for 20 years and have been trying to stop smoking more than a few times but to no avail.
This book did it for me, it has only been a month and a half, but I just don't get the urge, the need, or the craving for a cigarette.

Do yourself a favor and get this stupid book.

I refuse to get the patch, but seeing as how I'm a crazed book person, maybe I will allow myself to be aided by a book.

Very repetitive.
Doesn't do what it says on the tin.
Time for a fag break.

Listened to in audio format.

I bought this book a couple of years because my parents were desperate for me to give up. To be honest although I stopped smoking in January this year I switched to vaping instead. I wanted to listen to this book to stop me from smoking cigarettes again.

I have listened to this book multiple times since January. I know this book is a best seller but personally I found the time a bit preachy at times and full of buzz words.

Although it may work for some the late Mr Carr`s words of wisdom didn't work on me.

Smoke free since october 27 2023

Really eye opening book, Carr goes through every single possible excuse and question you would have about smoking and tells you the truth of the matter. That is that you have no real reason to smoke and any excuse you might have that you cannot stop or must continue is simply your way of rationalizing your addiction. Its eye opening in the sense that you have a pre conception of what the process of quitting will be like and what the cigarette does for you. For example you think that quitting will be this very torturous process and that when you quit cigarettes you are actually giving up a part of your life. Carr argues that you are actually giving nothing up and you are only gaining. That the quitting process is not half as bad as you imagine it to be no matter the degree of smoker you are. He dispels common notions such as "I smoke to relax/concentrate" in a very rational and fact based way.

Me personally, though I am only three days in feel no desire to ever touch a cigarette again after reading this work. Before this I was smoking roughly half a pack a day

I will update this every few months - years with my progress and change the rating accordingly

I lit my last cigarette ever today. I lit my first cigarette when I was 17 years old and have been a victim to the unremitting, unrewarding slavery of smoking for nearly a decade now. I was a chronic quitter. I would quit for a few months at a time, and would fall off the wagon when a stressful or traumatic event in my life convinced me that just one cigarette would make it at least a tiny bit better. Then the cycle would start all over again. So what's different this time? I believe that today I smoked my last cigarette because I am no longer relying on willpower, moping over supposed self-deprivation, all the while wishing more than anything that I could light one up. Rather, this book has offered me a different approach- change your mindset. Think not about what you're sacrificing by quitting (spoiler- NOTHING), think rather about what you're gaining- health, money, self-confidence and so much more. One of the rules given by the author was to not try to quit until the book was finished and the brainwashing (i enjoy this, it calms me down, I need it to function, life will be miserable without it) was removed. So every time I lit a cigarette during my time reading this book I would say, "I do not enjoy this. It tastes bad and its killing me." I believe I really had to be proactive in order to join the 600,000,000 people who have quit using this method. I'm proud of myself. And if I fall off the wagon again, God forbid, then damn it, I'll read the book again. Because I believe this is the only way to quit smoking- to celebrate my life free from this drug that has been poisoning me for nearly a decade, as well as the stigma that caused me to feel constant shame.

Also, I beg of all of you reading this review- please don't be that person that belittles smokers, "ostentatiously waving away smoke and pretending that it's choking you to death." All this does is cause the smoker to feel stressed and shamed which makes the desire to light up even stronger. Shame begets and perpetuates harmful behavior. I know that no one who has condescendingly "revealed" to me that I was killing myself has ever helped me in my journey to quit one bit. Just a final thought.

I recommend this book to any smoker out there who wants to be free from this drug addiction. And that is what nicotine is. A drug. Due to this book I've stopped downplaying that fact.

Very, very repetitive but I’m guessing that’s why it works…?

Wow! I've been a hardcore smoker since I was 11. I just quit.

I purchased this book out of spite... I was so sick of people suggesting it! I was just diagnosed with late stage 2 COPD. I've done NRT, Wellbutrin, hypnosis, "cold-turkey"... I was resigned to the fact that I'd always be a smoker. I was hoping to maybe just be a smoker who wouldn't have another cigarette... at least for a long time.

I didn't want to smoke before I even finished the book, but I followed the instructions. I finished the book quickly just so I could have that last cigarette and be done.

I'm a non-smoker! Yipee!

Compadezco a los no-fumadores porque nunca podrán autoayudarse con este hit total.

Ho provato a leggerlo perché da fumatore incallito (20/25 al giorno per 13 anni) e senza alcuna intenzione di smettere volevo capire come si poteva veramente credere ad un libro "magico" che potesse aiutare a perdere il vizio del fumo.

L'ho divorato in due giorni, fumando l'ultima sigaretta della mia vita mentre leggevo l'ultima pagina del libro.

Davvero incredibile, non sarò mai abbastanza grato all'autore per aver cambiato drasticamente la mia vita (in meglio). E a distanza di quasi sei anni non ho mai più avuto voglia di toccare una sigaretta...

J’ai envie de dire que la « review » devra être faite dans quelques semaines...!