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struggle through the rest of our lives feeling deprived and miserable; fear that we will need endless supplies of willpower to conquer the terriblecravings; fear that a meal or a social occasion will never be quite as enjoyable without a cigarette; fear that we’ll never be able to concentrate, handle stress or be as confident without our little crutch; fear that our personality and character will change; but most of all, the fear that we will never be completely free, and that we will spend the rest of our lives wanting to smoke but not being allowed to.
    If, as I did, you have already tried all the ‘conventional’ ways to quit you will not only be dominated by those fears I describe, but also convinced you can never get free.
    If you are apprehensive, panic-stricken or feel that the time is not right for you to stop, then you are being affected by the fear. As I will show throughout this book, that fear is not relieved by cigarettes but created by them. Non-smokers don’t have any of these fears.
    You didn’t decide to fall into the nicotine trap. Like all traps, it is designed to ensure that you remain in it. Ask yourself, when you lit those first experimental cigarettes, did you think you would remain a smoker as long as you have? So when are you going to quit? Tomorrow? The next Great American Smokeout? New Year’s Eve? Next year? Stop kidding yourself! The trap is designed to hold you for life. Why else do you think all those other smokers didn’t quit before it killed them?
    This book was first published in 1985. It has sold over 11,000,000 copies and been a bestseller every year since then. In putting together this brand new US edition, we are using over twenty-five years of feedback from both our seminars and previous editions. As you will soon be reading, that feedback has revealed information that has exceeded my wildest dreams regarding the effectiveness of EASYWAY. It has also revealed two aspects of the method that have caused me concern. The second I will cover in just a moment. The first arose out of the many letters I have received from readers. I give three typical examples:
‘I didn’t believe the claims you made and I apologize for doubting you. It was just as easy and enjoyable as you said it would be. I’ve given copies of your book to all my smoking friends and relatives, but I can’t understand why they don’t read it.’
    â€˜I was given your book eight years ago by an ex-smoking friend. I’ve just got around to reading it and can’t tell you how great it is to be free. My only regret is that I wasted eight years.’
    â€˜I’ve just finished reading EASYWAY. I know it has only been four days, but I feel so great, I know I’ll never need to smoke again. I first started to read your book five years ago, got half-way through and panicked. I knew that if I went on reading I would have to stop. Wasn’t I silly?’
    No, that particular young lady wasn’t silly. I referred earlier to a magic button. Allen Carr’s EASYWAY works just like that magic button. Let me make it quite clear, EASYWAY isn’t magic, but for me and the millions of former smokers who have found it easy and enjoyable to quit, it seems like magic!
    This is the warning. We have a chicken and egg situation. Every smoker wants to quit and every smoker can find it easy and enjoyable to do so. It’s only fear that prevents smokers from trying to quit. The greatest benefit of quitting is to be rid of that fear. But you won’t be free from it until you have completed the book. On the contrary, like the lady in the third example, that fear might even increase as you are reading and this might prevent you from finishing it.
    You didn’t decide to fall into this trap. When you were a youngster, just starting out as a smoker, you didn’t even know the trap existed. You need to be very clear in your mind that you won’t escape from it unless