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Allen Carr was a heavy smoker and smoked hundreds of cigarettes a day. After countless and unsuccessful attempts to quit smoking, he developed a unique technique for quitting nicotine. His method has received high reviews from doctors and is a huge success in many countries around the world; it has helped millions of smokers quit smoking - easily, painlessly, forever.

Allen Carr's method does not require willpower, since thanks to it the smoker's desire to smoke disappears, and fears due to common misconceptions associated with smoking disappear. The method will help every smoker, no matter how long ago or how much you smoke. No tricks or tricks, no intimidation or moralizing, no discomfort as a result of quitting smoking.

Allen Carr's "Easy Way" has already helped millions of smokers in Russia quit smoking. He will help you too.

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Allen Carr

An easy way to enjoy air travel

Dedicated to Adele Mirer.

She helped me realize that there are millions of people for whom flying on an airplane is not a pleasure, but a nightmare.

© Allen Carr's Easyway (International) Limited, 2000

© Edition in Russian, translation into Russian. Publishing house "Good Book", 2007

The main idea that runs like a red thread through Allen Carr's book is overcoming fear. The value of the “Easy Way” he discovered is that it helps to get rid of phobias and anxieties that prevent people from fully enjoying life. This is clearly demonstrated by Allen Carr's books: “The Easy Way to Stop Smoking”, “The Only Way to Quit Smoking Forever”, “The Easy Way to Lose Weight”, “How to Help Our Children Quit Smoking”.

The habit of smoking 100 cigarettes a day drove Allen Carr, a former successful accountant, to despair until in 1983, after endless attempts to quit smoking, he finally discovered what many had been waiting for for so long - “An easy way to quit smoking.” " He has now built a network of clinics around the world that have a well-deserved reputation for successfully helping people quit smoking. His books have been published in more than 20 languages, and there are also video, audio and CD versions.

Tens of thousands of people have sought help from Allen Carr clinics, and more than 90% of them have successfully quit smoking. He promises his patients that they can easily give up nicotine, and if the attempt is unsuccessful, they will get back the money spent on the course of treatment. A list of Allen Carr clinics is given at the end of the book. If you need help, contact your nearest clinic. Some Allen Carr clinics also provide training for those who want to control their weight. In addition, corporate client services are offered, allowing companies to easily and effectively combat smoking.

Preface

For over 20 years I was a committed smoker, smoking 60 cigarettes a day. Like most heavy smokers, I tried to quit smoking several times. First, I checked to see if I had willpower and quickly discovered that I had none. In subsequent attempts, I resorted to acupuncture, hypnosis, anti-nicotine lozenges and patches. It turned out that all these methods worked only for a short time. It’s not that I was climbing the wall, but I was constantly haunted by the feeling that I was a smoker who was no longer allowed to smoke. Like most former smokers, at times I had an irresistible desire to smoke a cigarette. I soon returned to my 60 cigarettes a day.

I've heard about Allen Carr. I saw him on television and even knew people who had successfully quit smoking after seeking help from his clinics. My husband bought me one of his books. Now I realize how stupid I was for not bothering to read it earlier, but I am a skeptic by nature. I already knew then that smoking was killing me and at the same time it was spending a lot of money. The problem wasn't stopping smoking. I could do this. But I didn’t understand how a book could help me get rid of the feeling of losing my support and friend.

Three years after my last attempt to quit smoking, while looking for something, I accidentally came across this book. At that time, I had already lost hope of quitting smoking, so it’s hard for me to say why I started reading it. The book captivated me. It seemed to me that I was reading not about Allen Carr's life experience, but about my own biography. After reading the book to the end, I smoked my last cigarette, and I never had the desire to smoke again.

Besides smoking, there were two other problems in my life that gave me trouble. Ironically, one of them was that since I was 20 years old, I had been in a constant battle with fat deposits on my body. Although what is ironic here if most middle-aged married women with two children have the same problems. However, I have always maintained that I started and continue to smoke primarily because I wanted to lose weight.

By that time, Allen Carr had become my guru. However, when I found out that his method is also effective for weight correction, that losing extra pounds and being the person you want is as easy and joyful as stopping smoking, I was again skeptical about it. After all, Allen himself says:

“Smoking is an infection, a poison and a killer, while eating is a pleasant, wonderful and life-sustaining process.”

I am ashamed now that I doubted the words of Allen Carr. He is absolutely right. You probably already guessed that my third problem was an obsessive fear of flying in airplanes. Allen explains in detail why smokers, alcoholics and other drug addicts are forced to resort to lies and self-deception. I don’t need to explain to my fellow sufferers that there are far fewer of us than those who are susceptible to fear of air travel. I will not describe in detail the panic that gripped me at the mere thought that I needed to fly, and the sophisticated web of lies that I weaved to avoid flying, since all this is described in detail in the book that you are holding in your hands. I now understand that the deception I resorted to not only misled me, but also did not convince my family or my friends. They were simply too polite and sincerely sympathetic to let me know that my fear of flying was depriving not only me of this pleasure, but also them.

Allen told me that he, too, was once terrified of even thinking about flying, but now flying for him is not a frightening ordeal that you have to go through in order to then enjoy a holiday abroad, but an interesting, enjoyable and exciting part of the holiday or business trip. I asked him what contributed to such changes. By that time, I believed Allen so much that I had no reason to doubt his words. Still, I was at a loss. After all, people smoke and overeat, often without meaning to. But flying is a completely different matter; many would like to enjoy it, but cannot achieve this.

We talked for two hours. Don’t forget that until that time, not only had I never flown, but I hadn’t even dared to go to the airport or think about booking a plane ticket. When we finished our conversation, there were tears in my eyes, but, let me emphasize, they were tears of joy. I couldn't wait for my vacation so I could finally book a plane ticket and spend my vacation abroad. It wasn't that I needed a rest, but that by the end of our conversation I had already lost my fear of flying, and I needed to prove it to myself.

Adele Mirer

So who wants to fly abroad?

This was a time when holidays in sunny climes - in Mallorca or the Canaries, and for more prosperous people in Florida or the Bahamas - were not only commonplace, but were becoming a relatively inexpensive and fashionable pleasure.

I recently qualified as an accountant. My income was higher, my car and house were slightly better than the average for my friends, and my mortgage was slightly lower. However, while I considered a two-week holiday at the popular and comfortable holiday resort in Bognor Regis to be the best holiday of my life, my friends were already blissfully enjoying the Mediterranean sunshine.

Why didn't I follow fashion? Maybe because I was loyal to the British holiday industry? No. Or because the weather in Bognor is better than on the Mediterranean? This question is not worth answering at all. Or maybe because I really only enjoyed my two-week vacation at the recreation center? I hope I don't sound like a snob, but the answer is, "No." Or was it all about the food? I have no doubt that the food in the Mediterranean was delicious and healthy, like much that is available in exotic resorts these days, but at the end of each holiday I was very relieved to once again enjoy home cooking. The answer then is that it's probably all about the price, and two weeks at a holiday park in Bognor was half the price of a two week holiday in the Mediterranean. Surprisingly, the opposite was true. Finally, when I finally worked up the courage to take my first flight (sorry, I'm still kidding myself: when I was first forced to take that terrible flight), we spent two weeks in Mallorca. Including return tickets and full board in a four-star hotel, it cost us £32 per adult and half that for children.

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Allen Carr
An easy way to enjoy air travel

Dedicated to Adele Mirer.

She helped me realize that there are millions of people for whom flying on an airplane is not a pleasure, but a nightmare.

© Allen Carr's Easyway (International) Limited, 2000

© Edition in Russian, translation into Russian. Publishing house "Good Book", 2007

about the author

The main idea that runs like a red thread through Allen Carr's book is overcoming fear. The value of the “Easy Way” he discovered is that it helps to get rid of phobias and anxieties that prevent people from fully enjoying life. This is clearly demonstrated by Allen Carr's books: “The Easy Way to Stop Smoking”, “The Only Way to Quit Smoking Forever”, “The Easy Way to Lose Weight”, “How to Help Our Children Quit Smoking”.

The habit of smoking 100 cigarettes a day drove Allen Carr, a former successful accountant, to despair until in 1983, after endless attempts to quit smoking, he finally discovered what many had been waiting for for so long - “An easy way to quit smoking.” " He has now built a network of clinics around the world that have a well-deserved reputation for successfully helping people quit smoking. His books have been published in more than 20 languages, and there are also video, audio and CD versions.

Tens of thousands of people have sought help from Allen Carr clinics, and more than 90% of them have successfully quit smoking. He promises his patients that they can easily give up nicotine, and if the attempt is unsuccessful, they will get back the money spent on the course of treatment. A list of Allen Carr clinics is given at the end of the book. If you need help, contact your nearest clinic. Some Allen Carr clinics also provide training for those who want to control their weight. In addition, corporate client services are offered, allowing companies to easily and effectively combat smoking.

Preface

For over 20 years I was a committed smoker, smoking 60 cigarettes a day. Like most heavy smokers, I tried to quit smoking several times. First, I checked to see if I had willpower and quickly discovered that I had none. In subsequent attempts, I resorted to acupuncture, hypnosis, anti-nicotine lozenges and patches. It turned out that all these methods worked only for a short time. It’s not that I was climbing the wall, but I was constantly haunted by the feeling that I was a smoker who was no longer allowed to smoke. Like most former smokers, at times I had an irresistible desire to smoke a cigarette. I soon returned to my 60 cigarettes a day.

I've heard about Allen Carr. I saw him on television and even knew people who had successfully quit smoking after seeking help from his clinics. My husband bought me one of his books. Now I realize how stupid I was for not bothering to read it earlier, but I am a skeptic by nature. I already knew then that smoking was killing me and at the same time it was spending a lot of money. The problem wasn't stopping smoking. I could do this. But I didn’t understand how a book could help me get rid of the feeling of losing my support and friend.

Three years after my last attempt to quit smoking, while looking for something, I accidentally came across this book. At that time, I had already lost hope of quitting smoking, so it’s hard for me to say why I started reading it. The book captivated me. It seemed to me that I was reading not about Allen Carr's life experience, but about my own biography. After reading the book to the end, I smoked my last cigarette, and I never had the desire to smoke again.

Besides smoking, there were two other problems in my life that gave me trouble. Ironically, one of them was that since I was 20 years old, I had been in a constant battle with fat deposits on my body. Although what is ironic here if most middle-aged married women with two children have the same problems. However, I have always maintained that I started and continue to smoke primarily because I wanted to lose weight.

By that time, Allen Carr had become my guru. However, when I found out that his method is also effective for weight correction, that losing extra pounds and being the person you want is as easy and joyful as stopping smoking, I was again skeptical about it. After all, Allen himself says:

“Smoking is an infection, a poison and a killer, while eating is a pleasant, wonderful and life-sustaining process.”

I am ashamed now that I doubted the words of Allen Carr. He is absolutely right. You probably already guessed that my third problem was an obsessive fear of flying in airplanes. Allen explains in detail why smokers, alcoholics and other drug addicts are forced to resort to lies and self-deception. I don’t need to explain to my fellow sufferers that there are far fewer of us than those who are susceptible to fear of air travel. I will not describe in detail the panic that gripped me at the mere thought that I needed to fly, and the sophisticated web of lies that I weaved to avoid flying, since all this is described in detail in the book that you are holding in your hands. I now understand that the deception I resorted to not only misled me, but also did not convince my family or my friends. They were simply too polite and sincerely sympathetic to let me know that my fear of flying was depriving not only me of this pleasure, but also them.

Allen told me that he, too, was once terrified of even thinking about flying, but now flying for him is not a frightening ordeal that you have to go through in order to then enjoy a holiday abroad, but an interesting, enjoyable and exciting part of the holiday or business trip. I asked him what contributed to such changes. By that time, I believed Allen so much that I had no reason to doubt his words. Still, I was at a loss. After all, people smoke and overeat, often without meaning to. But flying is a completely different matter; many would like to enjoy it, but cannot achieve this.

We talked for two hours. Don’t forget that until that time, not only had I never flown, but I hadn’t even dared to go to the airport or think about booking a plane ticket. When we finished our conversation, there were tears in my eyes, but, let me emphasize, they were tears of joy. I couldn't wait for my vacation so I could finally book a plane ticket and spend my vacation abroad. It wasn't that I needed a rest, but that by the end of our conversation I had already lost my fear of flying, and I needed to prove it to myself.

Adele Mirer

1
So who wants to fly abroad?

This was a time when holidays in sunny climes - in Mallorca or the Canaries, and for more prosperous people in Florida or the Bahamas - were not only commonplace, but were becoming a relatively inexpensive and fashionable pleasure.

I recently qualified as an accountant. My income was higher, my car and house were slightly better than the average for my friends, and my mortgage was slightly lower. However, for now I was counting two weeks of holiday at a popular and comfortable holiday resort in Bognor Regis 1
Bognor Regis is a fashionable resort in England.

The best holiday of my life, my friends were already blissfully enjoying the Mediterranean sunshine.

Why didn't I follow fashion? Maybe because I was loyal to the British holiday industry? No. Or because the weather in Bognor is better than on the Mediterranean? This question is not worth answering at all. Or maybe because I really only enjoyed my two-week vacation at the recreation center? I hope I don't sound like a snob, but the answer is, "No." Or was it all about the food? I have no doubt that the food in the Mediterranean was delicious and healthy, like much that is available in exotic resorts these days, but at the end of each holiday I was very relieved to once again enjoy home cooking. The answer then is that it's probably all about the price, and two weeks at a holiday park in Bognor was half the price of a two week holiday in the Mediterranean. Surprisingly, the opposite was true. Finally, when I finally worked up the courage to take my first flight (sorry, I'm still kidding myself: when I was first forced to take that terrible flight), we spent two weeks in Mallorca. Including return tickets and full board in a four-star hotel, it cost us £32 per adult and half that for children.

I realize that I must be like one of the characters in Monty Python who used to say: “I remember the days when you could hire a four-horse carriage to the Romano, enjoy the ballet at Covent Garden, then dine at the Ritz and you'll still have half a crown of change left over." 2
"Monty Python" is a British television series that aired in the late 60s and early 70s of the twentieth century; "Romano" - a chain of popular restaurants with traditional Italian cuisine; Covent Garden - Royal Opera House; Ritz is a chain of hotels and restaurants.

The thing is that a holiday in Bognor cost me twice as much as a trip to Mallorca and that is probably why this resort became unpopular. But that's their problem, not mine. The real reason I didn't seriously consider traveling abroad was because I was afraid of air travel, although I didn't realize that fact at the time. More than 30 years later, it is difficult for me to remember what I really felt then, but I know very well that alcoholics, nicotine and drug addicts are capable of deceiving themselves.

I concede that anyone who has taken the trouble to read this book is not merely suffering from a feeling of foreboding about flying, but will find the word "panic" a more appropriate description of their condition. However, I can say with confidence that at that time it was the words “bad feeling” that best reflected my true state. In fact, I chose to serve in the Air Force rather than in the Infantry or Navy. True, the only Air Force aircraft I saw during my two years of service was the Spitfire, 3
The Spitfire is a World War II fighter aircraft.

Installed at the entrance to the Padgate base. 4
Padgate was a World War II RAF base located near Warrington, Cheshire's largest town.

I finally applied to study to become a pilot. Needless to say, I was not accepted. But the thing is that I would not have written such a statement if at that time I was really afraid of flying.

However, let's get back to my vacation. The offer came from one of our familiar couples and was amazingly cheap. Is it really only £32 for two weeks, including flights and full board? We couldn't refuse such a vacation. Before we left, we met several times as families and spent the evenings excitedly planning our vacation and anticipating what a great time we would have. By the way, I highly recommend this practice. Even a carefully planned vacation can be a complete disaster, but the excitement of looking forward to it (an amazing vacation, not a disaster!) can be experienced many times before the event itself.

FROM DARK SUSPENSION TO PARANOIA

2
From gloomy foreboding to paranoia

All of us, including our children, not only flew on an airplane for the first time, but also planned to spend an exotic vacation abroad for the first time in our lives. However, our meetings before the vacation did not inspire me at all, but, on the contrary, turned into hellish torment. Long before departure, my gloomy premonition, having passed the stage of ordinary fear, developed into paranoia. I understood why I was afraid, and although I knew that airplanes were statistically the safest form of transport, I was overcome by thoughts of all the things that could get out of control. As it turned out, there were a lot of such things, and at an altitude of 10 thousand m, one of them is enough.

In the weeks leading up to the flight, I couldn't concentrate during the day and lay awake at night, imagining everything that could happen. It may sound funny, but my biggest fear was that I wouldn't have the courage to endure this ordeal. The actual flight became a complete nightmare for me. I now vaguely remember the details, but I can’t forget that the feeling of panic that gripped me was not mitigated even by an eight-hour flight delay, which ended with a mad dash along the runway to the plane, with one hand dragging my older child behind me, and under I dragged the younger one with my mouse.

I don't usually suffer from claustrophobia, but the plane looked very small. I hoped it would be no worse than being in a phone booth, but my hopes were soon dashed. Everything inside seemed simply microscopic, and when the entrance hatch closed, it felt like a giant hand was squeezing my throat. I spent the entire flight in a state of panic.

It soon became clear to me that the runway was not long enough for the plane to take off, that it was all my fault, that I should not have insisted on taking my golf clubs with me. Obviously, there are problems associated with overload. I interpreted every sharp sound and creaking in the hydraulic system, every rise or fall in engine sound, every change in altitude and direction of flight as an impending disaster. Even the rather pleasant monotonous sound emitted by the warning system meant imminent death. “Beep” - oh my God! The captain is about to announce that we are about to crash into the sea! The panicked seconds felt like hours before we knew we were just being told that we could now smoke, or that we could unfasten our seat belts, or that drinks, food, and duty-free goods would be served.

Finally, we landed safely. The plane quickly slowed down, by my calculations, from more than 800 km/h to 96 km/h, I experienced a huge sense of relief and thought: “If something goes wrong now, then at least we will remain alive.” " When the plane stopped, there was a moment of inexpressible euphoria. We arrived safely. Now I could enjoy two weeks in the sun before flying back. The joy ended when the meaning of the last three words dawned on me. Even before I left the plane, I began to worry about the return flight, and for two weeks I was haunted and tormented by the thought of it.

It seems to me that society as a whole takes too lightly people who suffer from fear of flying, which I will henceforth call FFS. We work our asses off all year to earn our reward of a couple of weeks of vacation in some exotic location. We are saving a significant part of our annual earnings to pay for this trip. It is not our fault that we suffer from SPP. Our annual vacation becomes not a reward, but a nightmare that lasts more than two weeks. This nightmare begins the moment we doom ourselves to fly, and lasts until the return flight is safely completed. But even then the problem does not go away because you know that you will have to go through this suffering for the rest of your life.

I PROMISE YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO!!!

Not only will you not have to suffer. I assure you that by the time you finish reading this book, you will, like Adele, be raring to go and looking forward to your next flight, even if it is your first. However, this will happen only under one condition - you follow all my recommendations, the first of which reads:

The only difficulty may be in implementing the following two recommendations. The second recommendation reads:

RELEASE FROM BIAS.

We all like to think of ourselves as open-minded, open-minded, receptive to new trends, and you must have smugly overlooked this recommendation without thinking. If so, then you are definitely not doing it. I need you to be skeptical and question not only everything I tell you, but everything you hear from others, no matter who. In particular, I urge you not to reconsider your own views or even decide whether you actually have a fear of flying until you have read the entire book.

At this stage, you are probably scared. Perhaps this is because you are afraid of failure or that I will persuade you to take a flight that will turn out to be a disaster. I don't mean that the plane will crash, but only that the flight will be a psychological trauma for you.

It’s hard for you to understand now, but fear of flying is a purely psychological problem, and if so, anyone can overcome it. Airports are exciting and exciting places, and flying can be a joyful experience as long as you don't suffer from STIs. If you are really afraid of flying, then they are a real curse for you. You are in a fortunate situation where you have a lot to gain and absolutely nothing to lose. The saddest thing that can happen to you is that I will not be able to rid you of fear. But even then your situation will not worsen.

If you go into this book feeling doomed and gloomy, it doesn't mean you'll fail, but you make it much more likely that you'll fail, and you'll likely have to reread the book, perhaps even several times.

START IN A GOOD FEATURE.

Now I'm in an ambiguous situation. If I had been able to convince you from the beginning that this book would help everyone who suffers from PDS get rid of their feelings of fear, you would already be in a good mood. However, if you start out feeling doomed and gloomy, then you are more likely to stay with that feeling. I need you to trust me. After all, I don’t require you to test your willpower. I'm not even insisting that you muster up all your courage. All I ask is that you read my book with an open mind. Nothing bad will happen. On the contrary, something amazing will happen. Look at it as a challenge. Experience a sense of pride and pleasure by overcoming your fear. And let me help you with this.

When I ask you to trust me, I am not asking for blind faith. Throughout the book I will explain my position to you. By the end of the book you will realize that I am right. You can probably start in the right frame of mind if I go into more detail about

MY METHOD.

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My technique

From the foreword written by Adele, you can conclude that I was proud to have discovered a technique that made it possible for any smoker to quit smoking easily, immediately and permanently, without suffering from the pangs of withdrawal, without testing their willpower and without resorting to all sorts of tricks and nicotine substitutes.

Smokers come to my clinics with various forms of panic and leave four hours later happy non-smokers. After two years of work, I gained such fame that smokers from all over the world began to flock to me. Trying to find time to help them all soon became a futile task.

So I outlined my method in The Easy Way to Quit Smoking, which remained a bestseller for 14 years since its first publication by Penguin, and has now been translated into more than 20 languages. As I already wrote, it is a bestseller in Holland and tops the list of bestsellers in Germany.

At first, I thought that my discovery had only to do with smoking. But after conducting thousands of group sessions, I gradually began to realize that my technique could be just as effective for getting rid of any type of drug addiction, including alcohol and heroin, or, in fact, for solving any purely psychological problem or getting rid of a phobia. However, I didn't express myself precisely. Alcohol and heroin become a problem only because we use them. Arsenic and strychnine are also potent poisons, but they are not a problem for us because we have neither the need nor the desire to take them.

The belief that we will get pleasure or some kind of support from nicotine, heroin or alcohol is the true root of evil. Even if, in your opinion, the problem of drug addiction is related in whole or in part to the physical condition of a person, it still exists on a psychological level. Get rid of the need or desire to take poison, and the problem will disappear.

Adele imagined that quitting smoking and getting rid of the fear of flying had nothing in common. How can you solve both of these problems using the same technique? I have to admit that at first her point of view seemed quite logical to me. Smoking can be accurately defined as follows:

a pastime that has a one-in-two chance of causing death, but that doesn't stop smokers from continuing to do it.

Flying on an airplane can be described in approximately the same words:

a pastime that certain people would absolutely love to indulge in, but are hampered by the one-in-a-million chance of mortal danger.

Ironically, there are literally millions of people on the planet who suffer from both problems. The famous golfer Neil Coles was a classic example. His fear of flying prevented him from earning millions of dollars in the American gaming circuit, but at the same time he had a habit of smoking one cigarette after another while playing.

Stop smoking and get rid of the fear of flying - at first glance, what do they have in common? Someone who suffers from SSP, as I once did, might conclude that persuading someone to quit smoking is the same as trying to persuade someone to stop having fun by arguing that it is dangerous, but persuading them to overcome their fear of flying is like forcing him to do something that is extremely unpleasant because it is not dangerous.

So, am I clearing up the confusion? Of course not. On the contrary, I do my best to confuse you even more. It is confusion that creates complexity. Let's look at both problems again. Smokers usually fall into a lyrical mood, describing the delights of smoking. They tell you how amazing cigarettes taste, and apparently don't even think about the fact that cigarettes are inedible. They explain that smoking helps them relieve boredom and stress, concentrate and relax, and do not understand that boredom and concentration are completely opposite, as are states of stress and relaxation, or that one cigarette from a pack cannot give a different result than any other.

Ask any smoker if he would encourage his children if they started smoking? Despite all the amazing benefits that he believes cigarettes have, everyone will answer in the negative, and you will be left in no doubt that every smoker on the planet could not imagine that his children would be hooked. Ask a smoker why he doesn't encourage his children to share in the pleasures and encouragement that smoking provides, and he'll start talking nonsense and stumbling over his words.

Isn't the real problem with smokers that logic tells them not to smoke, but the irrational part of their mind at the same time tries to convince them otherwise? This is why smokers hate the idea of ​​their children becoming the same.

Isn't the real problem with people who have a fear of flying that they know it's completely safe to fly, but their subconscious tells them the exact opposite?

In both cases, the problem is the same - a split consciousness. We simultaneously represent two different people: one says: “Smoke!”, the other says: “Don’t smoke!” Part of the consciousness advises: “Fly,” and the other warns: “Flight is dangerous.”

It may seem to you that it is the rational part of your mind that advises you not to fly, and the irrational part that convinces you otherwise. Neither one nor the other matters. Only schizophrenic division and confusion cause this problem. There are many people on the planet who have never flown and do not suffer from schizophrenia. They are quite happy with life without flying, and many of them are very reasonable people.

From what has just been said, you can conclude that your problem will be solved if you join their ranks. It would be truly unfortunate if you did so, because these people, although happy with their lot, do not realize what they are missing. So what! Ignorance is bliss. Yes, but happiness is only temporary. One day I got to the point where I just stopped trying to quit smoking. I reasoned like this: it was better to live less, but, as I thought then, more happily, remaining a smoker. I argued that the misfortune of living without cigarettes is much greater than the misfortune of being a smoker. Fortunately, I quit smoking, because life gives a non-smoker much more joy. I wish I had revealed the secret of how to easily quit smoking sooner.

"All in your hands". I don't know who first coined this expression or how long it has been around, but regardless, it has never been more relevant than today. Is it possible to envy someone who was never able to learn to drive a car? After all, this is tantamount to the inability to walk! Isn’t the fact that you can’t fly or will experience mental trauma if you still dare to fly a sign of weakness? These days, air travel is relatively inexpensive and is no longer an exclusive pleasure for the rich. Now the world has become accessible to everyone. Flying on an airplane is an amazing and joyful event, it is safe, and the fear of flying is irrational. And this is the absolute truth.

I asked you to give up your preconceptions and begin reading the book with a feeling of joyful excitement. The argument that a pessimist sees the glass as half empty and an optimist as half full is inappropriate in this case. We can safely say that the glass is in fact full, and those who suffer from SPP think that it is empty.

Let's take a closer look at what it is

CONFUSION AND BRAINWASHING.

Allen Carr (Alain Kar) - An easy way to enjoy air travel - read the book online for free

Adele Mirer. Preface

For over 20 years I was a committed smoker, smoking 60 cigarettes a day. Like most heavy smokers, I tried to quit smoking several times. First, I checked to see if I had willpower and quickly discovered that I had none. In subsequent attempts, I resorted to acupuncture, hypnosis, anti-nicotine lozenges and patches. It turned out that all these methods worked only for a short time. It’s not that I was climbing the wall, but I was constantly haunted by the feeling that I was a smoker who was no longer allowed to smoke. Like most former smokers, at times I had an irresistible desire to smoke a cigarette. I soon returned to my 60 cigarettes a day.

I've heard about Allen Carr. I saw him on television and even knew people who had successfully quit smoking after seeking help from his clinics. My husband bought me one of his books. Now I realize how stupid I was for not bothering to read it earlier, but I am a skeptic by nature. I already knew then that smoking was killing me and at the same time it was spending a lot of money. The problem wasn't stopping smoking. I could do this. But I didn’t understand how a book could help me get rid of the feeling of losing my support and friend.

Three years after my last attempt to quit smoking, while looking for something, I accidentally came across this book. At that time, I had already lost hope of quitting smoking, so it’s hard for me to say why I started reading it. The book captivated me. It seemed to me that I was reading not about Allen Carr's life experience, but about my own biography. After reading the book to the end, I smoked my last cigarette, and I never had the desire to smoke again.

Besides smoking, there were two other problems in my life that gave me trouble. Ironically, one of them was that since I was 20 years old, I had been in a constant battle with fat deposits on my body. Although what is ironic here if most middle-aged married women with two children have the same problems. However, I have always maintained that I started and continue to smoke primarily because I wanted to lose weight.

By that time, Allen Carr had become my guru. However, when I found out that his method is also effective for weight correction, that losing extra pounds and being the person you want is as easy and joyful as stopping smoking, I was again skeptical about it. After all, Allen himself speaks.

An easy way to enjoy air travel

Allen Carr was a heavy smoker and smoked hundreds of cigarettes a day. After countless and unsuccessful attempts to quit smoking, he developed a unique technique for quitting nicotine. His method has received high reviews from doctors and is a huge success in many countries around the world; it has helped millions of smokers quit smoking - easily, painlessly, forever.

Allen Carr's method does not require willpower, since thanks to it the smoker's desire to smoke disappears, and fears due to common misconceptions associated with smoking disappear. The method will help every smoker, no matter how long ago or how much you smoke. No tricks or tricks, no intimidation or moralizing, no discomfort as a result of quitting smoking.

Allen Carr's "Easy Way" has already helped millions of smokers in Russia quit smoking. He will help you too.

Allen Carr The Easy Way to Enjoy Air Travel

Dedicated to Adele Mirer.

She helped me realize that there are millions of people for whom flying on an airplane is not a pleasure, but a nightmare.

© Allen Carr's Easyway (International) Limited, 2000

© Edition in Russian, translation into Russian. Publishing house "Good Book", 2007

about the author

The main idea that runs like a red thread through Allen Carr's book is overcoming fear. The value of the “Easy Way” he discovered is that it helps to get rid of phobias and anxieties that prevent people from fully enjoying life. This is clearly demonstrated by Allen Carr's books: “The Easy Way to Stop Smoking”, “The Only Way to Quit Smoking Forever”, “The Easy Way to Lose Weight”, “How to Help Our Children Quit Smoking”.

The habit of smoking 100 cigarettes a day drove Allen Carr, a former successful accountant, to despair until in 1983, after endless attempts to quit smoking, he finally discovered what many had been waiting for for so long - “An easy way to quit smoking.” " He has now built a network of clinics around the world that have a well-deserved reputation for successfully helping people quit smoking. His books have been published in more than 20 languages, and there are also video, audio and CD versions.

Tens of thousands of people have sought help from Allen Carr clinics, and more than 90% of them have successfully quit smoking. He promises his patients that they can easily give up nicotine, and if the attempt is unsuccessful, they will get back the money spent on the course of treatment. A list of Allen Carr clinics is given at the end of the book. If you need help, contact your nearest clinic. Some Allen Carr clinics also provide training for those who want to control their weight. In addition, corporate client services are offered, allowing companies to easily and effectively combat smoking.

Preface

For over 20 years I was a committed smoker, smoking 60 cigarettes a day. Like most heavy smokers, I tried to quit smoking several times. First, I checked to see if I had willpower and quickly discovered that I had none. In subsequent attempts, I resorted to acupuncture, hypnosis, anti-nicotine lozenges and patches. It turned out that all these methods worked only for a short time. It’s not that I was climbing the wall, but I was constantly haunted by the feeling that I was a smoker who was no longer allowed to smoke. Like most former smokers, at times I had an irresistible desire to smoke a cigarette. I soon returned to my 60 cigarettes a day.

I've heard about Allen Carr. I saw him on television and even knew people who had successfully quit smoking after seeking help from his clinics. My husband bought me one of his books. Now I realize how stupid I was for not bothering to read it earlier, but I am a skeptic by nature. I already knew then that smoking was killing me and at the same time it was spending a lot of money. The problem wasn't stopping smoking. I could do this. But I didn’t understand how a book could help me get rid of the feeling of losing my support and friend.

Three years after my last attempt to quit smoking, while looking for something, I accidentally came across this book. At that time, I had already lost hope of quitting smoking, so it’s hard for me to say why I started reading it. The book captivated me. It seemed to me that I was reading not about Allen Carr's life experience, but about my own biography. After reading the book to the end, I smoked my last cigarette, and I never had the desire to smoke again.

Besides smoking, there were two other problems in my life that gave me trouble. Ironically, one of them was that since I was 20 years old, I had been in a constant battle with fat deposits on my body. Although what is ironic here if most middle-aged married women with two children have the same problems. However, I have always maintained that I started and continue to smoke primarily because I wanted to lose weight.

By that time, Allen Carr had become my guru. However, when I found out that his method is also effective for weight correction, that losing extra pounds and being the person you want is as easy and joyful as stopping smoking, I was again skeptical about it. After all, Allen himself says:

“Smoking is an infection, a poison and a killer, while eating is a pleasant, wonderful and life-sustaining process.”

I am ashamed now that I doubted the words of Allen Carr. He is absolutely right. You probably already guessed that my third problem was an obsessive fear of flying in airplanes. Allen explains in detail why smokers, alcoholics and other drug addicts are forced to resort to lies and self-deception. I don’t need to explain to my fellow sufferers that there are far fewer of us than those who are susceptible to fear of air travel. I will not describe in detail the panic that gripped me at the mere thought that I needed to fly, and the sophisticated web of lies that I weaved to avoid flying, since all this is described in detail in the book that you are holding in your hands. I now understand that the deception I resorted to not only misled me, but also did not convince my family or my friends. They were simply too polite and sincerely sympathetic to let me know that my fear of flying was depriving not only me of this pleasure, but also them.

Allen told me that he, too, was once terrified of even thinking about flying, but now flying for him is not a frightening ordeal that you have to go through in order to then enjoy a holiday abroad, but an interesting, enjoyable and exciting part of the holiday or business trip. I asked him what contributed to such changes. By that time, I believed Allen so much that I had no reason to doubt his words. Still, I was at a loss. After all, people smoke and overeat, often without meaning to. But flying is a completely different matter; many would like to enjoy it, but cannot achieve this.

We talked for two hours. Don’t forget that until that time, not only had I never flown, but I hadn’t even dared to go to the airport or think about booking a plane ticket. When we finished our conversation, there were tears in my eyes, but, let me emphasize, they were tears of joy. I couldn't wait for my vacation so I could finally book a plane ticket and spend my vacation abroad. It wasn't that I needed a rest, but that by the end of our conversation I had already lost my fear of flying, and I needed to prove it to myself.

Adele Mirer

1
So who wants to fly abroad?

This was a time when holidays in sunny climes - in Mallorca or the Canaries, and for more prosperous people in Florida or the Bahamas - were not only commonplace, but were becoming a relatively inexpensive and fashionable pleasure.

I recently qualified as an accountant. My income was higher, my car and house were slightly better than the average for my friends, and my mortgage was slightly lower. However, while I considered a two-week holiday at the popular and comfortable holiday resort in Bognor Regis to be the best holiday of my life, my friends were already blissfully enjoying the Mediterranean sunshine.

Why didn't I follow fashion? Maybe because I was loyal to the British holiday industry? No. Or because the weather in Bognor is better than on the Mediterranean? This question is not worth answering at all. Or maybe because I really only enjoyed my two-week vacation at the recreation center? I hope I don't sound like a snob, but the answer is, "No." Or was it all about the food? I have no doubt that the food in the Mediterranean was delicious and healthy, like much that is available in exotic resorts these days, but at the end of each holiday I was very relieved to once again enjoy home cooking. The answer then is that it's probably all about the price, and two weeks at a holiday park in Bognor was half the price of a two week holiday in the Mediterranean. Surprisingly, the opposite was true. Finally, when I finally worked up the courage to take my first flight (sorry, I'm still kidding myself: when I was first forced to take that terrible flight), we spent two weeks in Mallorca. Including return tickets and full board in a four-star hotel, it cost us £32 per adult and half that for children.

I realize that I must be like one of the characters in Monty Python who used to say: “I remember the days when you could hire a four-horse carriage to the Romano, enjoy the ballet at Covent Garden, then dine at the Ritz and you'll still have half a crown of change left over." The thing is that a holiday in Bognor cost me twice as much as a trip to Mallorca and that is probably why this resort became unpopular. But that's their problem, not mine. The real reason I didn't seriously consider traveling abroad was because I was afraid of air travel, although I didn't realize that fact at the time. More than 30 years later, it is difficult for me to remember what I really felt then, but I know very well that alcoholics, nicotine and drug addicts are capable of deceiving themselves.

I concede that anyone who has taken the trouble to read this book is not merely suffering from a feeling of foreboding about flying, but will find the word "panic" a more appropriate description of their condition. However, I can say with confidence that at that time it was the words “bad feeling” that best reflected my true state. In fact, I chose to serve in the Air Force rather than in the Infantry or Navy. However, the only RAF aircraft I saw during my two years of service was the Spitfire installed at the entrance to the base at Padgate. I finally applied to study to become a pilot. Needless to say, I was not accepted. But the thing is that I would not have written such a statement if at that time I was really afraid of flying.

However, let's get back to my vacation. The offer came from one of our familiar couples and was amazingly cheap. Is it really only £32 for two weeks, including flights and full board? We couldn't refuse such a vacation. Before we left, we met several times as families and spent the evenings excitedly planning our vacation and anticipating what a great time we would have. By the way, I highly recommend this practice. Even a carefully planned vacation can be a complete disaster, but the excitement of looking forward to it (an amazing vacation, not a disaster!) can be experienced many times before the event itself.

FROM DARK SUSPENSION TO PARANOIA

2
From gloomy foreboding to paranoia

All of us, including our children, not only flew on an airplane for the first time, but also planned to spend an exotic vacation abroad for the first time in our lives. However, our meetings before the vacation did not inspire me at all, but, on the contrary, turned into hellish torment. Long before departure, my gloomy premonition, having passed the stage of ordinary fear, developed into paranoia. I understood why I was afraid, and although I knew that airplanes were statistically the safest form of transport, I was overcome by thoughts of all the things that could get out of control. As it turned out, there were a lot of such things, and at an altitude of 10 thousand m, one of them is enough.

In the weeks leading up to the flight, I couldn't concentrate during the day and lay awake at night, imagining everything that could happen. It may sound funny, but my biggest fear was that I wouldn't have the courage to endure this ordeal. The actual flight became a complete nightmare for me. I now vaguely remember the details, but I can’t forget that the feeling of panic that gripped me was not mitigated even by an eight-hour flight delay, which ended with a mad dash along the runway to the plane, with one hand dragging my older child behind me, and under I dragged the younger one with my mouse.

I don't usually suffer from claustrophobia, but the plane looked very small. I hoped it would be no worse than being in a phone booth, but my hopes were soon dashed. Everything inside seemed simply microscopic, and when the entrance hatch closed, it felt like a giant hand was squeezing my throat. I spent the entire flight in a state of panic.

It soon became clear to me that the runway was not long enough for the plane to take off, that it was all my fault, that I should not have insisted on taking my golf clubs with me. Obviously, there are problems associated with overload. I interpreted every sharp sound and creaking in the hydraulic system, every rise or fall in engine sound, every change in altitude and direction of flight as an impending disaster. Even the rather pleasant monotonous sound emitted by the warning system meant imminent death. “Beep” - oh my God! The captain is about to announce that we are about to crash into the sea! The panicked seconds felt like hours before we knew we were just being told that we could now smoke, or that we could unfasten our seat belts, or that drinks, food, and duty-free goods would be served.

Finally, we landed safely. The plane quickly slowed down, by my calculations, from more than 800 km/h to 96 km/h, I experienced a huge sense of relief and thought: “If something goes wrong now, then at least we will remain alive.” " When the plane stopped, there was a moment of inexpressible euphoria. We arrived safely. Now I could enjoy two weeks in the sun before flying back. The joy ended when the meaning of the last three words dawned on me. Even before I left the plane, I began to worry about the return flight, and for two weeks I was haunted and tormented by the thought of it.

It seems to me that society as a whole takes too lightly people who suffer from fear of flying, which I will henceforth call FFS. We work our asses off all year to earn our reward of a couple of weeks of vacation in some exotic location. We are saving a significant part of our annual earnings to pay for this trip. It is not our fault that we suffer from SPP. Our annual vacation becomes not a reward, but a nightmare that lasts more than two weeks. This nightmare begins the moment we doom ourselves to fly, and lasts until the return flight is safely completed. But even then the problem does not go away because you know that you will have to go through this suffering for the rest of your life.

I PROMISE YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO!!!

Not only will you not have to suffer. I assure you that by the time you finish reading this book, you will, like Adele, be raring to go and looking forward to your next flight, even if it is your first. However, this will happen only under one condition - you follow all my recommendations, the first of which reads:

The only difficulty may be in implementing the following two recommendations. The second recommendation reads:

RELEASE FROM BIAS.

We all like to think of ourselves as open-minded, open-minded, receptive to new trends, and you must have smugly overlooked this recommendation without thinking. If so, then you are definitely not doing it. I need you to be skeptical and question not only everything I tell you, but everything you hear from others, no matter who. In particular, I urge you not to reconsider your own views or even decide whether you actually have a fear of flying until you have read the entire book.

At this stage, you are probably scared. Perhaps this is because you are afraid of failure or that I will persuade you to take a flight that will turn out to be a disaster. I don't mean that the plane will crash, but only that the flight will be a psychological trauma for you.

It’s hard for you to understand now, but fear of flying is a purely psychological problem, and if so, anyone can overcome it. Airports are exciting and exciting places, and flying can be a joyful experience as long as you don't suffer from STIs. If you are really afraid of flying, then they are a real curse for you. You are in a fortunate situation where you have a lot to gain and absolutely nothing to lose. The saddest thing that can happen to you is that I will not be able to rid you of fear. But even then your situation will not worsen.

If you go into this book feeling doomed and gloomy, it doesn't mean you'll fail, but you make it much more likely that you'll fail, and you'll likely have to reread the book, perhaps even several times.

START IN A GOOD FEATURE.

Now I'm in an ambiguous situation. If I had been able to convince you from the beginning that this book would help everyone who suffers from PDS get rid of their feelings of fear, you would already be in a good mood. However, if you start out feeling doomed and gloomy, then you are more likely to stay with that feeling. I need you to trust me. After all, I don’t require you to test your willpower. I'm not even insisting that you muster up all your courage. All I ask is that you read my book with an open mind. Nothing bad will happen. On the contrary, something amazing will happen. Look at it as a challenge. Experience a sense of pride and pleasure by overcoming your fear. And let me help you with this.

When I ask you to trust me, I am not asking for blind faith. Throughout the book I will explain my position to you. By the end of the book you will realize that I am right. You can probably start in the right frame of mind if I go into more detail about