Archive for the ‘Celebrities who quit smoking’ Category

Can Obama Quit? Yes He Can with Easyway!

January 13, 2009

obamaAllen Carr Easyway may yet be holding a clinic in the White House as it may be Obama’s next port of call in his effort to quit his habit.

“Obama is due to become president of the USA on January 20th so time is ticking away for him to kick his smoking addiction for good. He has tried other methods but none have worked as he is still smoking. So our clinics in the States have offered to help him overcome his addiction before taking up office,” explains Brenda Sweeney, director of Allen Carr’s Easyway in Ireland.  The White House is a smoke free zone since First Lady Hillary Clinton made it a rule when she resided there. Perhaps more to the point, Obama’s wife, Michelle, reportedly insisted he renounce cigarettes as a condition for allowing him to run for president.  “Obviously if Obama accepts the offer it will be done in the strictest confidence on a one to one basis,” says Brenda.

In a country where cigarettes are responsible for one in five deaths and smoking costs tens of billions of dollars in health care, the president-elect has also been under pressure to set an example by giving up his reported two-decade-old habit.

Available in Ireland since 1998, Allen Carr’s Easyway is without doubt the most successful method of helping people to stop smoking in the world. Since 1983 over eight million copies of Allen Carr’s Easyway to stop smoking books have been sold and thousands of smokers have attended clinics of which there are now over 70 worldwide.

 

Other celebrity clients of Easyway include Sir Richard Branson, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Goldie Hawn, Dave Stewart, Bruce Oldfield, Julie Christie, Ruby Wax, Johnny Cash, Gian Luca Vialli, Barry Sheen, Kerry Packer, Susannah York, Marie Helvin, John Sessions, Lord & Lady Bonham Carter, David Cameron, Lady Astor, Leslie Grantham, Dennis Waterman, Rula Lenska, John Cougar Mellencamp, Rick Parfitt, Martin Clunes, Lisa Stansfield, Robson Green, Vicky Binns, George Melly, Derek Jameson, Sean Bean, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Linda Robson…and many others who wish to remain anonymous.

 

In Ireland, companies which have introduced the Easyway Stop Smoking Clinics for their employees include ESB, AXA, Waterford City Council, AGF Irish Life Holdings, Project Management, Aer Rianta and Musgraves Supervalue.

 

Allen Carr Easyway can be contacted on 1890 379929 and website is www.easyway.ie.

Richard Branson Used the Allen Carr Method to Quit

November 18, 2008

Have a look at Richard Branson talking about how he gave up cigarettes using the Allen Carr method. Also read the comments underneath the video as they are very inspirational!

Allen Carr on Richard and Judy

October 31, 2008

I heard an interview with Richard from Richard and Judy fame this week on the Ian Dempsey morning show and he was talking about how he gave up smoking without the use of any smoking ‘aids’. It reminded me that he once had Allen Carr on his show talking about how the method works, so I thought it would be good to share! Also you can read some good testimonials under the clip on You Tube.

Who Was Allen Carr?

October 13, 2008

Allen Carr became a qualified accountant in 1958. He was successful in his chosen profession, but his hundred-cigarettes-a-day addiction was driving him to despair. In 1983, after countless failed attempts to stop with the aid of the willpower method, he finally discovered what the world had been waiting for – the Easy Way to Stop Smoking. Since leaving accountancy to help cure the world’s smokers, Allen built up a global reputation as a result of the phenomenal success of his method. He is now recognized as the world’s leading expert on helping smokers to quit. Smokers used to have to fly from all over the world to attend his clinic in London; now his network of clinics spans the globe. His organisation, Allen Carr’s Easyway, has clinics in most major cities in more than thirty countries. Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking is now an international bestseller and has been published in over 20 different languages. His second book, The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently, is also available. In his third publication, Allen Carr’s Easyweigh to Lose Weight, he applies the same simple logic to weight-loss, so that it becomes easy and enjoyable, as those attending his clinics have discovered. Thousands of smokers have become happy non-smokers easily and painlessly by attending one of Allen Carr’s Easyway clinics, where, with a success rate of more than 90 per cent, Allen Carr’s Easyway guarantees that you will find it easy to quit or your money back.

Sadly Allen Carr died on 29th November 2006.

He was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer in the summer of 2006. It seemed probable that the years he spent curing smokers in smoke-filled sessions at his clinics must have contributed to this illness. Allen said “Given that I am informed that I have cured at least 10 million smokers on a conservative estimation, even if that is the case, it’s a price worth paying”.

Before his death Allen remarked “Since I smoked my final cigarette, 23 years ago, I have been the happiest man in the world, I still feel the same way today”.