If you are looking for amazon, you will find more than 176 Smoking cessation books . A real madness when it comes to choosing.
And before so many options is difficult to make a choice. That is why I have made this small compilation with those who have been valued the best.
And such an amount is normal considering the magnitude of the smoking problem. According to WHO
- Tobacco kills up to half of its consumers.
- Tobacco kills every year almost 6 million people, of whom over 6 million are consumers of the product and more than 600,000 are non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke.
- Unless urgent action is taken, the annual death toll could amount to more than 8 million by 2030.
- Almost 80% of the world's 1 billion smokers live in low- or middle-income countries.
First of all, I would like to give my opinion on something. I have often heard people say that this kind of books are useless, that Self-help books Are deceiving and other comments.
In the search of these books, I read the opinion of several readers saying that they have no willpower and that the book has not served them.
And if you can get something difficult without willpower? Give up smoking It is not making a fried egg. On the other hand, no therapy or techniques taught in books are magical.
They teach steps, knowledge, techniques or strategies, but nothing is magic. It takes effort, perseverance, motivation, interest and dedication. If you have that, you've already taken a big step. Then some books will help you more than others.
1-It's easy to quit, if you know how-Allen Carr
According to the promoter of the book, more than 1 million people have managed to quit using this methodology.
They say that 70% of people who read it are able to quit.
The approach is practical and, above all, realistic and positive. It gives importance to the absolute liberation that supposes to stop to depend on something.
2-And one day I quit smoking-Ricardo Artola
A man on foot like most readers, tells us his story with tobacco; A story that starts with thirty cigarettes a day and ends in a new life of wellbeing without unbearable mood swings, obsessive thoughts or compulsive eating.
3-The fast method to quit smoking - Simon Hergueta
In this book you will find a series of resources, psychological help and emotional support to help you stop smoking permanently and forever.
The method has four simple and forceful rules that will help you get out of the tobacco trap with the idea of abandoning it forever and without missing it.
4-A year without Smoking-Fernando Arronera
A book written by a graduate in Politics and Sociology.
He tells his personal story, with grace, the methods that did not work and what if finally worked.
5-Anti-tobacco diet-Mariano Orzola
Book focused on the anti-smoking diet: it serves the function of lessening the effects that occur after leaving the nicotine addiction. In this way the transition becomes more bearable and less traumatic.
6-It's Easy To Quit Forever-Allen Carr
Allen Carr wrote this book to help all those who fell back into nicotine addiction after quitting using the method described in their"It is easy to quit if you know how."
Let's say it's an improved version of the first.
7-How do I stop smoking? -Geoffrey Molloy
Geoffrey Molloy is the director of the renowned face-to-face program"It's easy to quit... if you know how! And has spent the last eighteen years (eleven collaborating with Allen Carr) helping thousands of smokers free themselves from their bondage to nicotine addiction.
This book will be of special interest to those who succeeded in quitting smoking with Allen Carr's excellent book.
8-The small manual to stop smoking-Manu R. Aliau
This is a handbook for people who want to overcome their addictions, especially tobacco.
It is very useful for those people who are clear that they want to quit (or get rid of any other addiction), if that is not the goal, it will not do anything.
And have you been served? I am interested in your opinion. Thanks!