She had that haunted look on her face that I had come to dread. In no time at all I was smothered in blood again, oblivious to everything other than my own misery, I was suddenly aware that Joyce was staring at me through the car window. I was fully aware of how the circulatory system works and in particular, that the brain depends on a constant supply of blood but isn’t this another of the many anomalies of being a drug addict? All our smoking lives we have many powerful reasons not to smoke, but we work so hard to block out those reasons and devote all our ingenuity to finding any flimsy excuse which will allow us to smoke JUST ONE MORE CIGARETTE! I remember well Tony Hancock’s classic remark in ‘The Blood Donor’ and his look of horror and utter disbelief when informed that he was expected to donate a whole pint: A pint! That’s almost an armful! I’m not going to walk about all day with a floppy arm just to satisfy some legalised vampire! I will forgive you at this stage for doubting my word. I regard myself as a reasonably intelligent man. That’s obviously why the first nosebleed had stopped, so I could safely smoke another cigarette. I knew that the human body carries about 8 pints of blood, with one pint short, my blood level must have sunk below my nose. One of the few subjects that I took any interest in at school was biology. It didn’t take long for my addicted brain to come up with a simple solution to the problem. It was a particularly dismal Monday morning, I was terrified of what the smoking was doing to me and at one and the same time thinking: If ever I really needed a cigarette, it’s now! It was an extreme example of the tug of war of fear that all drug addicts suffer whilst they remain dependent on the drug. That first nosebleed had frightened me, I estimated that I had lost at least a pint of blood and was reluctant to lose more. I was desperate for another cigarette, but I knew this would start the nosebleeding again. I thought: If this is life with my little crutch, there is no way that I could cope with life without it! I changed my suit and went out to my car. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to stop I knew that I couldn’t stop! I accepted the fact and gave up even trying.Įventually the first nosebleed ended.
I knew that smoking was killing me anyway, all the nagging did was to make me feel even more stupid than I already felt – it just seemed to increase my dependency on cigarettes. It went in one ear and, presumably because there was nothing to impede its flow, straight out of the other. Joyce had already given me the usual lecture about what smoking was doing to my health. These nosebleeds had recently become part of my daily routine.
The first was a really bad one caused by the paroxysms of coughing brought on by those very special early morning cigarettes. The cigarette was dangling from my lips ‘Humphrey Bogart’ style, and the pleasure was not in the slightest way diminished by the fact that it was saturated with my own blood! The cause was a nosebleed, the second within the space of an hour. One of those lucky people that try just one cigarette and find it so obnoxious that they are never tempted to light another.īut how can a non-smoker possibly understand the great joy and pleasure to be obtained from smoking? In 2006, Allen was diagnosed with lung cancer and passed away that November handing responsibility for Easyway over to his closest and most trusted colleagues. His Easyway method has been successfully applied to a host of issues including weight control, alcohol and other addictions and fears. A vast majority of those happy non-smokers became aware of the method as a result of personal recommendation from their friends, family, and colleagues.Īllen Carr is now recognised as the world's leading expert on helping smokers to quit and has sold over 16 million books on the topic. Allen Carr's Easyway books, online video programmes, and live group seminars have helped an estimated 50 million smokers worldwide. He realised that he had discovered what the world had been waiting for - the Easy Way to Stop Smoking - and embarked on a mission to help cure the world's smokers.Įasyway has grown to become a global phenomenon with seminar centres in 150+ cities in more than 50 countries around the world. In 1983, after countless failed attempts to quit, he went from 100 cigarettes a day to zero without suffering withdrawal pangs, without using willpower and without gaining weight. Allen Carr (1934-2006) was a chain-smoker for over 30 years.