Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr.
He was a total addict this man, 100 cigarettes "on a bad day"...
Anthony Hopkins smoked probably less, and that´s why he didn´t invent the method and is only promoting it...
The former Czech president Václav Havel used to smoke even more than Allen Carr (on his bad days) in his happy days right after the "Velvet Revolution," there are some rumours he smoked up to 150 cigarettes a day, which seems rather fantastic to me. But despite that fact he didn´t invent the Easyway method, anyway, it would have been a "reinvention" at most, as the book by Allen Carr had been published in 1983, and Václav Havel stopped smoking in 1996 after being treated for lung cancer, afterwards he said his willpower was strong enough and his smoking days were over. I have never smoked in my life, but if I were Václav Havel I would have lit one more last cigarette on my deathbed.
In this video our great president Zeman we are currently having answears the question: How many cigarettes do you smoke per day? 40?
Miloš Zeman: No, not that many, I smoke only the cigarettes my friends... lend me, not 40 only 30, they are rather mean...
In vino veritas, but what has he been drinking? He once said he had tried to quit smoking, but had been so rude to his surroundings that they all had convinced him to start again before 14 days had been over.
John Lennon had tried to quit smoking at least once (to my knowledge), a friend of his hypnotized him, but somehow it didn´t work in the end (maybe after 20 minutes...)...
(I couldn´t find any (moving) pictures of Obama smoking, they are all photoshopped...)
There´s one thing I still don´t understand: The Easyway to stop smoking company (Allen Carr himself has died some time ago) is boasting of providing their services to the leading firms in the world ("BMW, Microsoft, Google, Ford, Total Oil, Bloomberg, Vodaphone, and Mercedes-Benz are just a few of the hundreds of top companies contracting our services to help improve the health of their workforce by offering help to stop smoking.") by telling them how EASY it is (and explaining the tricks), while our political leaders are telling us how HARD it is and are trying to be themselves our examples.
There are two different graphs on the succes rate of various methods:
a)
Easyway 55% (after a year, supposedly)
Champix 18%
Wellbutrin 16%
Nicotine gum 12%
Nicotine patch 9%
Hypnosis 6%
Acupuncture 4%
Herbal pills 1%
b)
Multiple-session hypnosis 63%
Multiple strategies 43% (whatever that means)
Single-session hypnosis 20%
Behavioral modification 20%
Medication 20%
Nicotine replacement 20%
No support 4%
So is the Easyway a hoax, or is there somebody who wants to suppress it or ignore it, as it would mean huge losses to the pharmaceutical industry?