|
| How to Stop Smoking and Stay Stopped for Good (Positive health) | 
 enlarge | Author: Gillian Riley
Publisher: Vermilion
Category: Book
List Price: £5.99
Buy Used: £0.01
You Save: £5.98 (100%)
New (4) from £0.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 328238
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0091887763
EAN: 9780091887766
ASIN: 0091887763
Publication Date: January 2, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: SUPER FAST SHIPPING, DISPATCHED SAME DAY FROM UK WAREHOUSE. NO NEED TO WAIT FOR BOOKS FROM USA. GREAT BOOK IN GOOD OR BETTER CONDITION. MORE GREAT BARGAINS IN OUR ZSHOP. amazon.co.uk/shops/awesome_books_001
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
14 years on my bookshelf April 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I opened this book today for the first time in many years. I bought it in 1993 and stopped smoking the same year. In the interim I've had periods where I've forgotten the brilliant and simple framework that this book provides and have started smoking for a time. But 14 years on and I'm not smoking. According to all the research that I can find on the internet this means that my risk of developing cancer and all the other deadly diseases which smoking causes is back to roughly the same as for a lifelong non-smoker. Buy this book sooner rather than later and keep it on your shelf. Then come back to Amazon and write your own review in 14 years time. It may save your life.
How to stop Smoking and stay stopped for good January 31, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After 10 years of smoking twenty a day, and after been hypnotised,had acupuncture, patches and all other stop smoking aides, this is the only thing that has ever worked.
It is a common sense book, and it needs to read through before quitting the cigerettes,however its a very good 'carry with you book and I have never looked back.
Thank you Gillian Riley
Amazing! September 27, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have nothing but absolute praise for this book. I was a heavy smoker for about 10 years, and had been trying to quit for some time, hating both my unfitness, my smell and wheezing/ coughing in the mornings - and despite hating all these things I continued to smoke over 20 cigarettes a day for over 10 years.
I had tried will power (I have none), nicotine gum, patches - but the urge to light up always won in the end. I have to say my sporadic attempts at stopping never lasted more than a day.
When I read this book I didn't expect a lot, but when I put the techniques into practice I suddenly had the tools to understand my addiction and be more powerful than it was. I could simply say for the first time "I choose not to smoke" and it was so. I haven't touched a cigarette despite the odd craving for well over 3 years now, because I have chosen not to - and that's the beauty of the book. If it can make someone as weak-willed and rubbish as me quit - I'm sure it could do the same for anyone that gives it an honest go.
Brilliant!
Doctors should prescribe this book September 7, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you are a smoker, invest in this book. (Make sure you keep your own copy... others will want to borrow it, but you need to keep your own to reread occasionally.) I had given up smoking a couple of times... the 1st time for 6 weeks, the 2nd time I cut down, then gave up for 3 months. I had a stressful day at work and took a wee drag of someone else's cigarette... not long afterwards I was back to 20 a day. "That's it" I thought, "I'm destined to be a smoker." I was really annoyed with myself. Anyway, later that year, in November, I picked up this book in my mother's and started to read it - after a couple of pages I couldn't put it down. She explained so many things about my addiction I hadn't understood. I frequently found myself thinking "That's SO true... but I would have never worked it out for myself in 100 years!" This book is great because you read it, practice what it preaches, and you KNOW when you are ready to give up and are totally confident from day one - which for me was January 2nd. There are no battles with your willpower, no jealousy of your friends who are still smoking... you will be able to go out and have a drink and cope with people smoking all around you without wanting to grab the cigarette out of their hand. You will welcome cravings and be able to deal with them! (Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it?) You will not need patches, or to substitute cigarettes with food (when I was off them for 3 months I did put on weight, but not this time). It totally takes the difficulty out of the process. The beauty of it is that you can also use this method to give up other things too, eg alcohol or cannabis etc.
So how does this book achieve all this? Well, it explains the nature of the psychological addiction, for example why it's normal to have a strong craving for a cigarette maybe 10 years after you've given up! Secondly, it teaches you a different way of thinking. You don't think "I can never have a cigarette again!"... this gives you that familiar feeling of being deprived of your cigarettes... setting you up for failure, as you jealously watch others smoking, and eventually like I did, you crack and "reward" yourself with a cigarette. Instead you are aware that of course you can have a cigarette - you can have a cigarette any time you like, if you want to! When you have a craving, you acknowledge the craving and picture succumbing to it. You have the choice to smoke if you want to. But at this point you realise that if you take even one puff, you will start smoking again... and you always choose not to have that puff. Because you are only choosing to refuse one craving at a time - and, crucially, you will have practiced this so often BEFORE you give up that you'll know you can do it- it is actually easy, with no feelings of deprivation.
I've been off cigarettes for 9 years now and I can honestly say it was easy... and yet I never understood before I read this book exactly how addicted I was to cigarettes! I've bought this book for several people and recommended it to many. Some people said they'd prefer to give up using patches/willpower than read this book... I say read it and save yourself a lot of hassle. I look at people who've been smoking all of their lives and think "If only they knew!"
Better than other methods. March 21, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I originally picked out Gillian Riley’s weight loss book to deal with my yo-yo dieting and in there it mentions that it’s necessary to quit smoking before dealing with overeating, which brought me to ‘how to stop smoking and stay stopped for good’. I smoked 15 a day on average for about 13 years, apart from an 18 month break after attending an Easyway session on the Allen Carr method and a 3 week break after reading/listening to Stop Smoking in One Hour by Susan E. Hepburn. The difference with Gillian Riley’s book is the ‘staying stopped’ bit. Gillian teaches you to retrain your brain to face every situation without resorting to smoking. The problem I had with the other two methods was that as soon as a crisis in my life came along I resorted to the ciggies again. This time I didn’t repress any cravings – I dealt with them consistently. By following Gillian’s advice to read a bit of this book every day for the first few weeks and by using her ‘outline’ every time I had a craving (closely following the advice in the book) –I was fairly easily able to stop without using any other aids. It really wasn’t to bad, although I was maybe a little bit more emotional than normal in the first 2 months. The only thing I didn’t do so well on, was following the instructions on not gaining weight. I have gained a few pounds but this is probably because I wasn’t following her instructions in this area as closely as I was with the rest of it. Also I tend to gain weight and comfort eat to easily anyway – which is why I picked up her weight loss book in the first place. It’s worth noting that a lot of people gain weight / are a bit more emotional in the first few weeks after stopping smoking but these side effects are normally temporary and I’m sure the gaining weight thing is avoidable for some. It’s been 3 months since i've been off the ciggies now – I intend to start using Gillian’s method for weightloss to loose the few pounds I have gained, and I will post an update in the future as to how that goes and how I get on long-term with staying stopped.
|
|
|
Learn how to have your own
Amazon Shop
Travel Maps and Guides
zeugma
| | Holiday Travel |
alpharooms.com for cheap holiday deals in spain and worldwide
Disneyland Paris for a great family holiday or short break.
Holday Cottages throughout Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland and France with Cottages4you
Hilton - need we say more, you will find Hilton Hotels in most areas throughout Britain, in cities and in the countryside.
Don't forget Travel Insurance
Airport Parking
|
|
|
|
