For you to help to stop smoking!

[E$_manager]

Check the link. I have to friends who quitted smoking after reading this book.
May be that would help you too.

http://allencarr.com/central/article...o-stop-smoking

[munki]

Put fuses down the middle of all your cigarettes... Im sure you'll give yourself the message before to long.

[godisdead]

My mother gave up smoking with Allen Carr's method.

[LittleSassy]

discipline......

[Dagwolf]

"Action on Smoking and Health? tells us that a 30-year-old smoker can expect to live about 35 more years, whereas a 30-year-old nonsmoker can expect to live 53 more years.

I'm 40... do I want to live 25 more years or 43? Hm...

[bl4h]

The problem is not really the physical addiction, but the fact that smokers always have something extra to look forward to. The next cigarrette break. Learning to live without that is a hard thing to do, for me atleast.

[E$_manager]

there is more psychological addiction than fisical in many cases - i agree.
Personally i do not smoke, but my husband does. He is starting to read this book. Hope that would help him.
But the most important think about quiting smoking is like about any drug - desire to stop it.

[bobby666]

i stopped smoking for three years after looking an allen car video
unfortunetly i started smoking again, seems as the vidoe or his book helps only once
but i can recommand his books !

[E$_manager]

May there is somewhere in net his video? Where did you get one, bobby?

[drjones]

Originally Posted by bl4h

The problem is not really the physical addiction, but the fact that smokers always have something extra to look forward to. The next cigarrette break. Learning to live without that is a hard thing to do, for me atleast.

Thats it for me right there. I find I can go for a long time without a smoke while I'm at home. At work it is a different story. I need to have my smokebreaks. Anytime I try to quit thats where I have the most trouble. Its nice to have smokebreaks to look forward too.

[Ace_luffy]

nice article....

[E$_manager]

There are smokebreaks for smokers. For me it is teabreak. I am addicted to tea and wait for teabreak impaciently.

[bl4h]

unfortunatly im both a smoker and a tea drinker :||||||||

[NoCarrier]

After reading this article 5 years ago, I quit smoking.

"He Wanted You To Know"

http://whyquit.com/whyquit/BryanLeeCurtis.html


On the day of Bryan's death, June 3, wife Bobbie and son Bryan keep a bedside vigil. The recent photo of father and son is on the bed. [Times photo: V. Jane Windsor]


***

Bryan Curtis started smoking at 13, never thinking that 20 years later it would kill him and leave a wife and children alone. In his last weeks, he set out with a message for young people.



Bryan Lee Curtis, then 33, holds son Bryan Jr., 2, in this March 29 photo. Curtis would die about two months later. [Photo: Curtis Family]

ST. PETERSBURG -- Cigarette smoke hangs in the air in the room where Bryan Lee Curtis lies dying of lung cancer.

His head, bald from chemotherapy, lolls on a pillow. The bones of his cheeks and shoulders protrude under taut skin. His eyes are open, but he can no longer respond to his mother or his wife, Bobbie, who married him in a makeshift ceremony in this room three weeks ago after doctors said there was no hope.

In Bryan's emaciated hands, Bobbie has propped a photograph taken just two months ago. It shows a muscular and seemingly healthy Bryan holding his 2-year-old son, Bryan Jr. In the picture, he is 33. He turned 34 on May 10.

A pack of cigarettes and a lighter sit on a table near Bryan's bed in his mother's living room. Even though tobacco caused the cancer now eating through his lungs and liver, Bryan smoked until a week ago, when it became impossible.

Across the room, a 20-year-old nephew crushes out a cigarette in a large glass ashtray where the butt joins a dozen others. Bobbie Curtis says she'll try to stop after the funeral, but right now, it's just too difficult. Same for Bryan's mother, Louise Curtis.

"I just can't do it now," she says, although she hopes maybe she can after the funeral.

Bryan knew how hard it is to quit. But when he learned he would die because of his habit, he thought maybe he could persuade at least a few kids not to pick up that first cigarette. Maybe if they could see his sunken cheeks, how hard it was becoming to breathe, his shriveled body, it might scare them enough.

So a man whose life was otherwise unremarkable set out in the last few weeks of his life with a mission.
* * *

Bryan started when he was just 13, building up to more than two packs a day. He talked about quitting from time to time, but never seriously tried.

Plenty of time for that, he figured. Older people got cancer. Not people in their 30s, not people who worked in construction, as a roofer, as a mechanic.

He had no health insurance. But he was more worried about his mother, 57, who had smoked since she was 25.

"He would say, "Mom, don't worry about me. Worry about yourself. I'm healthy,' " Louise Curtis remembers. "You think this would happen later, when you're 60 or 70 years old, not when you're his age."

He knew, only a few days after he went to the hospital on April 2 with severe abdominal pain, how wrong he had been. He had oat cell lung cancer that had spread to his liver. He probably had not had it long. Also called small cell lung cancer, it's an aggressive killer that usually claims the lives of its victims within a few months.

While it seems unusual to the Curtis family, Dr. Jeffrey Paonessa, Bryan's oncologist, said he is seeing more lung cancer in young adults.

"We've seen lung cancer earlier and earlier because people are starting to smoke earlier and earlier," Paonessa said. Chemotherapy sometimes slows the process, but had little effect in Bryan's case, he said.

Bryan also knew, a few days after the diagnosis, that he wanted somehow to try to save at least one kid from the same fate. He sat down and talked with Bryan Jr. and his 9-year-old daughter, Amber, who already had been caught once with a cigarette. But he wanted to do more. Somehow, he had to get his story out.

When he still had some strength to leave the house, kids would stare.

"They'd come up and look at him because he looked so strange," Louise Curtis said. "He'd look at them and say, "This is what happens to you when you smoke.'

"The kids would say, "Oh, man. I can't believe it,' " Louise Curtis said.

In the last few weeks, Bryan's mother has been the agent for his mission to accomplish some good with the tragedy. She has called newspapers and radio and television stations, seeking someone willing to tell her son's story, willing to help give him the one thing he wanted before he died. Bryan never got to tell his story to the public. He spoke for the last time an hour before a visit from a Times reporter and photographer.

"I'm too skinny. I can't fight anymore," he whispered to his mother at 9 a.m. June 3. He died that day at 11:56 a.m., just nine weeks after the diagnosis.

Bryan Lee Curtis Sr. was buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in St. Petersburg on June 8, a rare cloudy day that threatened rain.

At the funeral service at nearby Blount, Curry and Roel Funeral Home, Bryan's casket was open and 50 friends and relatives could see the devastating effects of the cancer.

Addiction is more powerful.

As the graveside ritual ended, a handful of relatives backed away from the gathering, pulled out packs of cigarettes and lit up.

***

Bryan's Story Updates



January 23, 2001 - "It's almost been 2 years now. We set and watch home movies of us. His son is missing him too. Christmas was the worst. He had to go outside and show his dad what he got for Christmas. That really tore me up." Bobbie Jo Curtis



February 28, 2002 - Bobbie indicates that Bryan's mother was able to quit smoking following her son's death. Bryan Jr. will turn six on August 23, 2002, at which time he will have been fatherless for more than half his life.

May 24, 2005 Appearance on PAX TV's Cold Turkey II



May 24, 2005 - Bobbie Curtis and Bryan Jr. made an appearance on PAX TV's Cold Turkey II. Cold Turkey II was a U.S. smoking cessation reality show about 10 smokers quitting cold turkey. Bobbie shared Bryan's story with the qroup in the living room of the house in which they were staying. In this picture, Byan Jr. was asked about his dad being gone. Members of the group were interviewed after Bobbie and Bryan Jr. departed and it was obvious that Bryan's story had had a profound impact upon them.

August 21, 2005 - Bryan, Jr.'s birthday is in two days, on August 23rd. He'll be nine. Bobbie wishes to thank all who, over the years, have taken the time to e-mail over 1,400 thank you letters. Although a bit too much for Bryan Jr. to absorb right now, she wants you to know that she has kept each of them.

[bobby666]

Originally Posted by Cristie

May there is somewhere in net his video? Where did you get one, bobby?

i borrowed the vid at my local public library, but i think at amazon or similar places it still can be ordered.
i think the book is exactly the same - but at the time of quitting smoking i only knew his video.

[E$_manager]

Originally Posted by bl4h

unfortunatly im both a smoker and a tea drinker :||||||||

[E$_manager]

Originally Posted by bobby666

i borrowed the vid at my local public library, but i think at amazon or similar places it still can be ordered.
i think the book is exactly the same - but at the time of quitting smoking i only knew his video.

may be there is some kind of Hypnose ion the vid?
I am interested in what is the technology? Some say it is information that is in his book that influence your unconscious. Is it possible?

[chaze]

I'm quiting now and have quit for years before after smoking off and on.

I think the main thing is to be strong mentally and just except that smoking is not a option when your quiting.

The people I know that have quit, never used a program or gum, they finally decided they would not smoke ever again.

[madawgz]

anyone can stop, all you have to do is not smoke and pick an alternative addiction...

[rodney25]

Thank God, I quit smoking three years ago. I shouldn't have started that thing in first place.

[E$_manager]

Looks like quitting smoking is the painy question for almost everyone.
Noone wrote here: I smoke i am not going to stop it. I like it, it helps me to relax.

[squishypimp]

thanks, ill forward it to all my addicted friends

[E$_manager]

you are welcome

[reynold]

Originally Posted by chaze

The people I know that have quit, never used a program or gum, they finally decided they would not smoke ever again.

Take it from me. One day I just told myself to quit, I stood by my words, and made it.

[NinjaSteve]

discipline

[E$_manager]

By the way, for to day i have another friend that stopped smoking. It is only a couple of days now, but i can't see any wish to take a siggaretfrom him.