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Learn how different aspects of your physical and mental health can be affected by smoking and improved by quitting
What’s new in the world of Allen Carr’s Easyway and smoking cessation
Life as a happy non-smoker is full of freedom and joy. Here are our tips and advice for the future.
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Hosted by Allen Carr’s Easyway CEO and Senior Therapist John Dicey & Colleen Dwyer, this podcast addresses all aspects of addiction and getting free.
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December 2025
How long does nicotine withdrawal last? Discover Allen Carr's timeline guide to quitting nicotine and find effective strategies to break your addiction.
14 minute read
November 2024
This article focuses on the various effects of quitting smoking on health, including the short-term and long-term benefits of quitting, as well as the potential health problems that may arise...
4 minute read
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July 2024
After years of failed attempts to stop smoking I finally succeeded. Now I help other smokers to freedom using the same method that I did. It's called Allen Carr's Easyway...
5 minute read
July 2024
Working as an Allen Carr therapist is a joy – a streak of enlightenment day by day. Every day I see the new aspects of smoking, and it feels wonderful...
3 minute read
July 2024
When my dad died of a heart attack due to being a big old smoker, this scared me. So I went to the chemist and asked for help. In those...
9 minute read
July 2024
In 2006 I read on a "quit smoking" web forum about Allen Carr's Easyway book which seemed to be helping lots of people to quit smoking. I started to think...
4 minute read
July 2024
I made many attempts with many different methods. I tried with nicotine patches, nicotine gum, cold turkey… but always the same story, after a few days I was in a...
3 minute read
July 2024
I thought stopping smoking was easy as I’d done it loads of times, 2 to 3 months at a time. It wasn’t until I was in my mid-twenties that it...
4 minute read
July 2024
I had a permanent voice inside reminding me how much of an idiot I was for being so irresponsible with my life and how normal and smart other people were...
4 minute read
July 2024
Around three years after quitting I realised I needed a career change so I decided to write to Allen Carr’s Easyway. The recruitment process was really tough - some say...
4 minute read
July 2024
Over the years, I smoked more and more and eventually ended up a chain-smoker (my strong lungs allowed me to do this) but into my early 30’s my health had...
5 minute read
February 2024
The U.S. Surgeon General called surging e-cigarette use by children and young adults “a major public health concern” and recommended increased regulation and taxation of the products in a report...
2 minute read
February 2024
Patrick has a great attitude and doesn’t care so much about the lost cash, he’s just happy to be free after attending an Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking Seminar....
2 minute read
February 2024
It was fabulous to read how Deputy Features Editor & journalist, Paisley Gilmour, quit smoking with Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking.
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