I’ve been thinking about this problem recently, and one idea I had is to make something like Alan Carr’s book The easy way to stop smoking. This book seems to be surprisingly effective at helping people stop smoking, from what I gather, it somehow makes the idea of smoking painfully disgusting and unappealing—I assume it is in the same vein as hypnosis. I was planning on checking it out at the library sometime, and trying to write a sugar version. Perhaps also do some preliminary experiments with hypnosis, to see if it can work for this.
I used Carr’s book to stop smoking, worked like a charm (~19 years smoke-free now). He’s written a book about dieting too, but that didn’t work at all for me.
I’m not sure, because I don’t remember the diet book very well. But one major difference is that even if you’re on a diet, you’ve still got to eat – you can’t just quit food, like you can with cigarettes.
I’ve been thinking about this problem recently, and one idea I had is to make something like Alan Carr’s book The easy way to stop smoking. This book seems to be surprisingly effective at helping people stop smoking, from what I gather, it somehow makes the idea of smoking painfully disgusting and unappealing—I assume it is in the same vein as hypnosis. I was planning on checking it out at the library sometime, and trying to write a sugar version. Perhaps also do some preliminary experiments with hypnosis, to see if it can work for this.
I used Carr’s book to stop smoking, worked like a charm (~19 years smoke-free now). He’s written a book about dieting too, but that didn’t work at all for me.
What was different?
I’m not sure, because I don’t remember the diet book very well. But one major difference is that even if you’re on a diet, you’ve still got to eat – you can’t just quit food, like you can with cigarettes.
You can. :)
I am waiting for when they start selling outside of US.