Free Yourself From Smoking
by Kristina Ivings
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Manufacturer: Kyle Cathie
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 362
EAN: 9781856267977
ISBN: 1856266575
Label: Kyle Cathie
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2006-01-12
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Studio: Kyle Cathie
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Summary: Carr is finally beaten
Comment: A few years back, I read Allen Carr's book and packed in smoking easily and effortlessly. A few months later, I lit "one cigarette" and resumed my old smoking habit, easily and effortlessly. I had consoled myself with the fact that I always had Carr's miracle book to fall back on any time I wanted to quit again. When that time came, I re-read Carr's book, but it didn't work a second time.
And so began my quest to quit smoking definitively. I tried Carr's other books, and they didn't work. I tried Neil Casey's book -- worked for a few days -- and then failed. I was getting to the point where I was believing all the horrendous stories were true...that smoking is an exceptionally tough nut to crack, and one that you must battle with all your life.
Then I noticed Kristina Iving's book on Amazon. I did a bit of digging online, and liked the cut of her gib. I was particularly taken with an article on her website that was a "De-Carr-inisation" speech. As brilliant as Carr's book is, it DOES have its flaws. Carr is so unconditionally certain about his method that I always believed it was a fatal character flaw in myself that made me keep smoking in spite of reading his stuff.
Iving's book takes a slightly more substantial approach. She successfully marries all the best bits of Carr's methods with the beefy reinforcement of NRT (nicotine replacement therapy) and a real eye-opening explanation of the three factors we need to defeat in order to live a successful existence as a non-smoker.
I found the book a really refreshing and exciting read, and the character of NITCH is one you are unlikely to forget. I also loved her own personal stories of her battle with cigarettes. And Instead of the mass repetition that Carr was guilty of, Ivings doesn't print any chaff. As far as I can see, she has covered just about every base.
I have now been a non-smoker for nearly a month thanks to her book and, amazingly, it has been even easier and more enjoyable than the first time around. I know a month isn't a long time in the context of smoking cessation, but I am certain I will never touch another cigarette again (if nothing else, my last failed attempt taught me the lesson of "one cigarette").
I hope people will take a leap of faith and purchase this book and implement the suggestions, give it the reviews it deserves and drive it up that chart. This book deserves to be read by a lot of smokers!
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Summary: the best stop smoking book I've ever read.
Comment: I'm privileged - through a connection, I had a chance to read the manuscript of this book long before it was published; a year ago in fact. I'd been smoking for near-on 15 years, roll-up's mostly, and somewhere between 20-30 a day, every day. Things were getting worse and worse: within a minute or so of waking I'd be looking for that first cigarette, I'd smoke another couple on the drive to work, and as soon as I got to the office it was out onto the balcony for yet another. On and on it went. I didn't smoke in the house, but I was spending half my life out in the garage, smoking, and I was finding myself getting ill, constantly catching awful colds, painful coughing, throat like sandpaper.
Since reading this book I haven't had a single cigarette - not a single drag, and I'm confident now I'll never smoke again. The key thing this book taught me was you can be free, totally free, from cigarette cravings. It's not like being an alchoholic, you won't have to take it one day at a time every day for the rest of your life - you can be free. When you're on the fags its hard to imagine life without them as being anything other than miserable, always being deprived of something you enjoy. But that's balls, I can see that now. Give up smoking using this book and you'll see you're actually adding something to your life, and that smoking is totally negative. You only ever smoke - ever - to temporarily remove that feeling of wanting a fag. Break that vicious circle and you're free: you won't just have stopped smoking, you'll have stopped yourself wanting to smoke, permanently. That's the message here. I'd really recommend this book, it's really helped me.
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Summary: Free Yourself from Smoking
Comment: At last, an intelligent, well-written guide to stopping smoking. It helps you to understand just why you smoke, and guides you through every stage of giving up, including what to do if you relapse. It is written with great depth of understanding and humour by a self-confessed ex-smoker, who also happens to hold her doctorate in this field. If you really want to give up once and for all, this is the book for you.
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Summary: Genuinely helpful book with distinctive ideas
Comment: Getting to grips with the ideas in this book about WHY people smoke has fundamentally changed my beliefs about my own smoking and is really helping me stop.
Lots of "self-help" books are thin on ideas but padded out with waffle and repetition to make the reader think they are getting value for money. This isn't the case with this book, which has a very soundly researched underlying strategy based on what psychologists call Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
The text is broken up with illustrations as well as insightful diaries from quitters and would-be quitters, which keeps things reasonably lively. The author's professional experience with smokers shows through clearly.
One helpful device is a character called 'Nitch', which the author uses to personify our own inner voice that encourages us to continue smoking. At first I though this was just a gimmick but actually the thoughts this little voice expresses are spot on, and seeing them in black and white on the page does help one realise how illogical our own cravings are.
Let's face it, giving up smoking is never going to be easy, but this book does provide some really helpful tools. I suppose I can't promise that the approach presented here will work for everyone, but the book does encourage the reader to really challenge some very deep ideas about why they smoke, and what the author writes here really does ring true for me.
A definite thumbs up from me.
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Summary: Great book
Comment: This book was brilliant. It was unexpectedly funny, very accessible and full of excellent advice from everything to preparing to quit, quitting, staying quit and learning what to do if you relapse. Definately stands out from the other smoking books I have read.
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