{"id":146946,"date":"2018-01-05T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T10:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/articles\/stop-smoking-and-mindfulness\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T14:06:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T14:06:03","slug":"stop-smoking-and-mindfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/articles\/stop-smoking-and-mindfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week, NZ Herald, The Elephant, &#038; Allen Carr&#8217;s Easyway to Quit Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"    <section  class=\"container container--large article-container\">\n            <div class=\"article \">\n            <div class=\"article__sidebar\">\n                <div class=\"sidebar-inner-section author\">\n                    <div class=\"author__avatar\">\n                                                                                                            <img decoding=\"async\"\n     src=\"https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/16103712\/author-john-dicey-200x200.jpeg\"\n             srcset=\"https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/16103712\/author-john-dicey-50x50.jpeg 360w,\n             https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/16103712\/author-john-dicey-100x100.jpeg 768w,\n             https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/16103712\/author-john-dicey-200x200.jpeg 1440w,\n             https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/16103712\/author-john-dicey.jpeg 2000w\"\n             alt=\"\"\n               \/>                                            <\/div>\n                    <span class=\"sidebar-sub-title\">Written By<\/span>\n                    <a class=\"u-text-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/authors\/john-dicey\/\" title=\"John Dicey Bio\">\n                        <h5 class=\"author__author\">John Dicey<\/h5>\n                    <\/a>\n                                                                <h6 class=\"author__title sidebar-content\">Former Global Chief Executive Officer &#038; Senior Facilitator<\/h6>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"sidebar-inner-section\">\n                        <span class=\"sidebar-sub-title\">Reviewed by<\/span>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/authors\/paul-baker\/\" title=\"Paul Baker, BSc (Hons) Bio\">\n                            <p class=\"sidebar-content\">Paul Baker, BSc (Hons)<\/p>\n                        <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"sidebar-inner-section\">\n                    <span class=\"sidebar-sub-title\">Published<\/span>\n                                        <p class=\"sidebar-content\">05 January 2018<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"sidebar-inner-section\">\n                    <span class=\"sidebar-sub-title\">Last Updated<\/span>\n                    <p class=\"sidebar-content\">\n                        22 July 2024\n                    <\/p>\n                <\/div>\n                                    <div class=\"sidebar-inner-section\">\n                        <span class=\"sidebar-sub-title\">Issues<\/span>\n                        <div class=\"article-categories\">\n                                                                                                <a class=\"article-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/articles\/addictions\/mindfulness\/\">Mindfulness<\/a>\n                                                                                                                                                                                            <a class=\"article-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/articles\/addictions\/smoking\/\">Smoking<\/a>\n                                                                                                                                                                                            <a class=\"article-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/articles\/addictions\/vaping\/\">Vaping<\/a>\n                                                                                                                                                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"sidebar-inner-section\">\n                        <span class=\"sidebar-sub-title\">Topics<\/span>\n                        <div class=\"article-categories\">\n                                                                                                                                                            <a class=\"article-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/articles\/addictions\/mindfulness\/mind-in-the-news\/\">Mindfulness In the News<\/a>\n                                                                                                                                                                                            <a class=\"article-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/articles\/addictions\/smoking\/smoking-in-the-news\/\">Smoking In the News<\/a>\n                                                                                                                                                                                            <a class=\"article-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/articles\/addictions\/vaping\/vaping-in-the-news\/\">Vaping In the News<\/a>\n                                                                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"sidebar-inner-section\">\n                    <span class=\"sidebar-sub-title\">Share this article<\/span>\n                    <ul class=\"social-list\">\n            <li class=\"social-list__item\">\n            <a class=\"social-list__item-link\"\n               href=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/articles\/stop-smoking-and-mindfulness\/\"\n               onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'share popup','left=20,top=20,width=500,height=360,toolbar=1,resizable=0'); 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Allen Carr&#8217;s Easyway to Quit Smoking<\/h1>\n\n                \n                                                    <p class=\"article__excerpt\">Everyone&#8217;s talking about Allen Carr&#8217;s Easyway. Read about stopping smoking, practising mindfulness, and many other issues that the method addresses.<\/p>\n                \n                \n                                                            <div class=\"article__image\">\n                                                                                    <img decoding=\"async\"\n     src=\"https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/16102900\/3-titles.jpg\"\n             srcset=\"https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/16102900\/3-titles-220x117.jpg 360w,\n             https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/16102900\/3-titles-440x234.jpg 768w,\n             https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/16102900\/3-titles.jpg 1440w,\n             https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/16102900\/3-titles.jpg 2000w\"\n             alt=\"\"\n               \/>\n                                                    <\/div>\n                                    \n                <div class=\"u-show-mobile article-social-bar\">\n                    <span class=\"sidebar-sub-title\">Share this article<\/span>\n                    <ul class=\"social-list\">\n            <li class=\"social-list__item\">\n            <a class=\"social-list__item-link\"\n               href=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/articles\/stop-smoking-and-mindfulness\/\"\n               onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'share popup','left=20,top=20,width=500,height=360,toolbar=1,resizable=0'); return false;\"\n               rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"\n               target=\"_blank\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/wp-content\/themes\/allen-carr\/public\/dist\/svgs\/social-facebook-fill.svg\" alt=\"Share to Facebook\"\/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n                <li class=\"social-list__item\">\n            <a class=\"social-list__item-link\"\n               href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/articles\/stop-smoking-and-mindfulness\/&#038;text=The Week, NZ Herald, The Elephant, &#038; Allen Carr&#8217;s Easyway to Quit Smoking\"\n               onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'share popup','left=20,top=20,width=500,height=360,toolbar=1,resizable=0'); return false;\"\n               rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"\n               target=\"_blank\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/wp-content\/themes\/allen-carr\/public\/dist\/svgs\/social-twitter-fill.svg\" alt=\"Share to Twitter\"\/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n        \n        \n    <li class=\"social-list__item\">\n        <a class=\"social-list__item-link\"\n            href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/articles\/stop-smoking-and-mindfulness\/\"\n            data-behaviour=\"copy-link\" title=\"Click to copy\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/wp-content\/themes\/allen-carr\/public\/dist\/svgs\/social-sharelink-fill.svg\" alt=\"Copy link to clipboard\"\/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>                <\/div>\n\n                \n                \n                \n                \n\n<p><h3>The Week, NZ Herald, The Elephant, &amp; Allen Carr&#8217;s Easyway to Quit Smoking<\/h3>\nIt&#8217;s fabulous to see more media coverage for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/easyway-stop-smoking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allen Carr&#8217;s Easyway to Quit Smoking<\/a> in newspapers, magazines, and on websites all over the world this New Year.<br><br>Below we feature just a small selection; they&#8217;re only extracts but you can click on the links at the bottom of the page to read the whole features.<br><br><strong><em>&#8216;The Week&#8217;<\/em><\/strong> is a digest publication that tries to provide its readers with a selection of stories from across the media. They focused on <em>&#8220;Six of The Best Ways to Quit Smoking&#8221;<\/em> and thankfully, aside from the usual suggestions of nicotine patches and gum, or e-cigarettes, or keeping busy, also gave a shout out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/about-allen-carrs-easyway\/the-allen-carr-easyway-method\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allen Carr&#8217;s Easyway to Quit Smoking method<\/a>.<br><br><em>&#8220;Few are as roundly revered as Allen Carr&#8217;s Easy Way to Quit Smoking. Millions of copies of his book have been sold and his perspective on smoking is thought to have helped some 30 million people make serious changes in their life.&#8221;<\/em><br><br><em><strong>The New Zealand Herald&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8216;Northern Advocate&#8217;<\/em> publication does the same &#8211; this time mentioning Cassandra Bell, a &#8216;Northlander&#8217; who quit smoking after reading Allen Carr&#8217;s book, Easy Way to Quit Smoking.<br><br>She said, <em>&#8220;Quitting smoking is the best decision I&#8217;ve ever made. My breathing is so much easier now, I never cough in the morning, and I really didn&#8217;t want to smoke while I am pregnant&#8221;.<\/em><br><br>Mindfulness publication <strong><em>&#8216;Elephant Journal&#8217;<\/em><\/strong> gave musician and poet Billy Manas an opportunity to write about ditching the idea of New Year&#8217;s Resolutions and trying something different (in the course of which he thoroughly recommends Allen Carr&#8217;s Easyway to Quit Smoking).<br><br><em>&#8220;My first-hand experience with quitting cigarettes after nearly 25 years of smoking opened my eyes to a truth that can be applied to any change one needs to make.<\/em><br><br><em>I read a book by Allen Carr called \u201cThe Easy Way to Quit Smoking,\u201d and what was so ingenious about his technique was that he removed the feeling of being deprived of cigarette smoking and replaced it with the feeling of being given a healthy, happy new life as a non-smoker&#8221;.<\/em><br><br>It would be remiss of us, at this point, to forget to mention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/mindfulness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allen Carr&#8217;s Easyway to Mindfulness<\/a> which has been extremely well-received since it was published last month. It&#8217;s designed to be an easy introduction to the practise of mindfulness and the reviews indicate that it&#8217;s a hit (it currently tops several bestsellers list categories).<br><br><a class=\"button red hvr\" title=\"Read more about 'Our Workplace Programmes\u2019\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/corporate-employee-wellbeing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out which issues Allen Carr&#8217;s Easyway can help you with<\/a><br><br><a class=\"button red hvr\" href=\"http:\/\/shop.allencarr.com\/products\/the-easy-way-to-mindfulness-2\/?_ga=2.190658219.1298835146.1511185321-1263673269.1509530617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BUY Allen Carr\u2019s Easyway to Mindfulness book in Paperback, Ebook, or Audiobook NOW <\/a><br><br><a class=\"button blue hvr\" title=\" Visit Allen Carr's Easyway Israel's Website \" href=\"http:\/\/www.theweek.co.uk\/79838\/five-of-the-best-ways-to-stop-smoking-in-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read &#8216;The Week&#8217; Feature<\/a><br><br><a class=\"button blue hvr\" title=\" Visit Allen Carr's Easyway Israel's Website \" href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&amp;objectid=11967269\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read &#8216;The NZ Herald&#8217; Feature<\/a><br><br><a class=\"button blue hvr\" title=\" Visit Allen Carr's Easyway Israel's Website \" href=\"https:\/\/www.elephantjournal.com\/2017\/12\/ditch-the-new-years-resolutions-do-this-instead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read &#8216;The Elephant Journal&#8217; Feature<\/a><br><br><em><strong>From the desk of John Dicey, Worldwide CEO &amp; Senior Facilitator, Allen Carr\u2019s Easyway<\/strong><\/em><br><br><strong>#QuitSmoking #StopSmoking #BeAddictionFree #AllenCarr #QuitVaping #StopVaping #SmokeFree <\/strong><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"related-articles u-background-white 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