This book is all about setting up your own custom plan that is based around doing certain things that are specific to you and the type of person you are, to help you quit smoking. There are around 10 steps to the plan, and you go through each step for an entire 7 day period. For me the 7 days flew by. It’s basically like a nicotine detox but you don’t use any kind of medications or drinks or anything like that, you just let your body purge the nicotine naturally.

The main thing about this system is the author explains how a smoking addiction is very similar to other types of strong addictions. I had no idea that cigarettes can be just as addictive as heroin or cocaine. Which makes sense and also explains why so many people have such a hard time quitting even after it badly damages there health.

My copy also came with the Action Plan guide which was very very helpful. This guide breaks down each step even further so that you can build your own stop smoking plan catered to you.

I have been off cigarettes for nearly 3 months now and I don’t ever plan to go back. The methods for beating cravings saved my rear end because if I didn’t know how to fight those cravings I know I would already be smoking again. If you have struggled with quitting (haven’t we all??) then I would give this a try because it worked for me and I tried a lot of different things.

This book was quite different. Even though you are technically quitting cold turkey the author goes into different methods you can use to really help overcome your dependence on nicotine. The Carr book basically tries to get you to understand how bad your smoking habit is and then just quit after finishing the book. He also encourages you to smoke while you’re reading through the book, while this book doesn’t do that at all.

I felt like this book was a complete step by step plan that helped guide me so that I knew exactly what I needed to do to not only quit smoking, but also how to get through nicotine cravings. He offers some really good advice that really made sense and helped. Also I didn’t have to use any gums or patches, which I was afraid of having to do.

BTW, the author is really nice and answered every email I sent him. I wasn’t expecting that because I’m sure he gets a lot of emails every day. But he did, and his extra advice also really helped when I was going through the steps. I can defintely say I recommend this book if you have tried to quit smoking before but never had success with it.

Eventually I decided to give this a go because I thought why not? It took a while though because when I first bought the book I just skimmed over the first few pages and then didn’t open it again for weeks. One day I was sitting at the table smoking and I thought why the hell did I even buy that book and waste the money? Then I looked at the cigarette in my hand and just told myself how stupid it was. I put the cigarette out and immediately went and started reading. It did look like a bunch of work to get started with the program at first but I made myself do it. Actually it wasn’t that bad. The main problem I was torn between wanting to quit and wanting to keep smoking. The thing about this program is you make your own plan using the steps in the book and the key is you have to stick to your plan.

I will never say that quitting smoking is an easy thing to do. Even after completing the steps I still want a cigarette every so often. I use lifesavers to curb the cravings. That’s another thing about this system that I didn’t know about, he teaches you about hand mouth habits and how to deal with them using something other than a cigarette. I have to say, it’s very effective. Anyway I’ve wrote way too much here but whatever. The point is I am glad that my doctor told me about this book and that I eventually used it. It might work for you, it might not, but I certainly would recommend that you try it.