39 Most Famous Allen Carr Quotes (STOP SMOKING)

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Top 15 Most Famous Allen Carr Quotes (BEST)

To quit successfully, you need to focus on what the cigarette is doing for you. Once you understand you’re not making a sacrifice, you’re well on your way to freedom. — To quit **successfully**, you need to **focus** on what the cigarette is doing for you. Once you understand you’re not making a sacrifice, you’re well on your way to **freedom**.

The journey to a smoke-free life begins with a single thought that you don’t need cigarettes to enjoy life. — The **journey** to a smoke-free life begins with a single thought: that you don’t need cigarettes to enjoy **life**.

Don't quit smoking because you 'should'; quit because you want to be free. — Don’t quit smoking because you ‘should’; quit because you want to be free.

Eight hours after putting out a cigarette, you are 97% nicotine-free. After just three days of not smoking, you are 100% nicotine-free.

Smoking is a psychological addiction, not a physical one.

The only reason any smoker lights a cigarette is to try to end the empty, insecure feeling that the previous cigarette created.

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off. — The whole **business** of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

The cigarette does nothing for you; it only takes something away.

Smokers do not smoke because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.

Smoking doesn't relieve stress; it creates it. Quitting brings true relaxation. — Smoking doesn’t relieve stress; it creates it. Quitting brings true **relaxation**.

You're not giving up anything when you quit smoking. You're gaining freedom, health, and happiness. — You’re not giving up anything when you quit smoking. You’re gaining **freedom**, **health**, and **happiness**.

Quit smoking and take back control of your life. You're the one in charge, not the cigarettes. — Quit smoking and take back control of your **life**. You’re the one in charge, not the cigarettes.

Quite simply, the key to being a happy non-smoker is to remove the desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no Willpower not to do so. — Quite simply, the key to being a **happy** non-smoker is to remove the desire to smoke. With no desire to smoke, it takes no Willpower not to do so.

You were born a non-smoker. Quitting smoking is simply returning to your natural state.

Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime’s chain of filth, disease, fear, misery and slavery. — Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime’s chain of filth, disease, **fear**, misery and slavery.

5 Inspirational Allen Carr Quotes About Quitting Smoking

Your life will become infinitely more enjoyable and rewarding when you have freed yourself from the slavery of smoking.

Smoking is like a prison. Quitting sets you free. — Smoking is like a prison. Quitting sets you **free**.

When a smoker stops, his blood is cleansed of nicotine within 72 hours and all traces of addiction have gone.

Smokers are slaves to nicotine whereas non-smokers are free.

Your life will be infinitely more enjoyable and rewarding when you have freed yourself from the slavery of smoking.

16 Wise Allen Carr Quotes About Quitting Smoking that will Make You Think

“Wouldn’t that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say ‘I never want to smoke again’, then spend the rest of your life saying ‘I’d love a cigarette.’ That’s what smokers who use the Willpower Method do. No wonder they feel so miserable. They spend the rest of their lives desperately moping for something that they desperately hope they will never have.”
Allen Carr

Responsibility becomes stressful only when you don’t feel strong enough to handle it. — **Responsibility** becomes stressful only when you don’t feel strong enough to handle it.

Quitting smoking is not a sacrifice; it's a gift you give to yourself. — Quitting smoking is not a sacrifice; it’s a **gift** you give to yourself.

I was in control of every area of my life except for smoking. The cigarette was deciding where I could go, what I could do, when I could do it and with whom.

“However, you cannot force smokers to stop, and although all smokers secretly want to, until they are ready to do so a pact just creates additional pressure, which increases their desire to smoke. This turns them into secret smokers, which further increases the feeling of dependency.”
Allen Carr

Believe in yourself and your ability to quit smoking. You have the power within you to break free. — **Believe** in yourself and your **ability** to quit smoking. You have the power within you to break free.

The only reason you smoke is because you're addicted. Break free from the addiction and reclaim your life. — The only reason you smoke is because you’re addicted. Break free from the addiction and reclaim your life.

The pleasure of smoking is an illusion created by the nicotine in cigarettes.

“The moment you stop smoking, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you’ve stopped smoking. Now when you have a mental block, instead of just getting on with it you start to say, ‘If only I could light up now, it would solve my problem.’ You then start to question your decision to quit smoking.”
Allen Carr

The cigarette gets the credit for everything and the blame for nothing.

Get it clear in your mind Cigarettes do NOT fill a void. They create one! — Get it clear in your mind: Cigarettes do NOT fill a void. They create one!

There are people who can make love standing on a hammock, but it is not the easiest way.

“The main reason that smokers find it difficult to quit is that they believe that they are giving up a genuine pleasure or crutch. It is absolutely essential to understand that there is nothing to ‘give up’.”
Allen Carr

Part of the ingenuity of any addictive drug is to fool you into believing that life without it won’t be as enjoyable, andor that you’ll be less able to cope with stress. — Part of the ingenuity of any addictive drug is to fool you into believing that life without it won’t be as enjoyable, and/or that you’ll be less able to cope with stress.

It is not the cigarette that you are addicted to; it is the nicotine that it contains.

'Just one cigarette' is a myth you must get out of your mind. — ‘Just one cigarette’ is a myth you must get out of your mind.

3 Allen Carr Quotes on the Addiction of Alcohol

“Client: ‘Could you teach me to have an occasional drink and not get hooked again?’ Me: ‘Of course I could. I could even teach you to take the occasional dose of arsenic.’ Client: ‘Why on earth would I want you to do that?” Me: ‘Exactly!'”
Allen Carr