Allen Carr's The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently by Allen Carr

Author:Allen Carr
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781848586598
Publisher: Arcturus Digital Limited
Published: 2018-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

THE ‘FIVE DAY’ AND ‘THREE WEEK SYNDROMES’

CHAPTER 29

The ‘Five Day’ and ‘Three Week Syndromes’

Because the physical withdrawal pangs from nicotine involve no pain and are so slight as to be almost imperceptible, you could be excused for believing that they can be safely ignored. Excused, you might be, but:

FREE YOU NEVER WILL BE

It is essential that you are aware that when you lit your first cigarette, you created an evil monster inside your body, rather like a tape worm, except that this little monster depends upon and thrives on one substance only: a powerful poison called NICOTINE! The moment you cut off the supply of nicotine you have already taken the only action that you needed to take in order to purge that evil from your body. Nothing can now prevent that monster from dying of starvation. Have you seen these films in which the hero says to the heroine: lock the door. On no account open it to anyone but me.” No sooner has the hero left the scene than his best friend is knocking on the door. At that point every one of the millions that have ever watched the film now realise, without any doubt whatsoever, that the best friend is the werewolf. They also know with equal certainty, that the one person on the planet that won’t realise it, is the heroine, and that having just been instructed not to open the door to anyone, the stupid bitch will open it!

You will be in exactly the same situation for a few days. That nicotine monster will be physically there. By comparing it to a tape worm I am not trying to imply the nicotine monster is an actual living parasite. However, its effect is exactly the same! It is real and it is physical, just as a hunger for food is real and physical. But whereas a hunger for food will never go, the craving for nicotine will begin to die the moment you cut off its supply. It will try to entice you to feed it and it will help you to think of it as an actual living parasite.

There are two aspects about that monster that many ex-smokers find difficult to grasp. The analogy of the cold sore can help to explain both of them:

1. If I cannot suffer the irritation of an insect bite for a few seconds, surely it must take enormous willpower to resist scratching a cold sore for several days? In fact it doesn’t. Remember I choose to scratch insect bites and have no reason to resist the temptation. Anyway, cold sores are nowhere near as irritable as insect bites, it needs very little willpower to resist them. Ah! Say you, so it must take some willpower to resist the little nicotine monster for a few days. No, because the physical withdrawal from nicotine is so slight as to be imperceptible, the problem is purely mental. However because it’s purely mental, if you start off by believing that you’ll suffer terrible withdrawal pangs, that fact alone will guarantee that you do.

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