1 Copyright of Allen Carr’s Easyway International 27.11.06 SCANDAL BY ALLEN CARR DEDICATION In no book could the dedication be more appropriate than this. To Robin Hayley: my friend, colleague and successor. And to his worldwide team of dedicated therapists who, without exception, sacrificed highly-paid and successful careers to join our cause. 2 Copyright of Allen Carr’s Easyway International 27.11.06 PART 1 DEVASTATION 3 Copyright of Allen Carr’s Easyway International 27.11.06 CHAPTER 1 THE GREATEST SCANDAL NEVER EXPOSED You may have noticed that practically every week the media announce the discovery of a possible new wonder drug or exciting new development, which might, just might, lead to the cure of a certain disease. Often most people have never heard of the disease let alone the requirement for a cure. In fact recently the pharmaceutical industry has been openly accused of "inventing" diseases for which drugs companies have apparently discovered a cure. This "wonder drug" culture helps to reinforce the belief that modern medicine is constantly producing miracle cures. Usually the announcement of a cure comes couched in cautionary terms such as: "So far experiments have been carried out on mice and the results have proved encouraging and in five years it is hoped that either a cure or treatment can be developed to alleviate the effects of the disease in humans." Millions of people suffer pain from arthritis, head-aches, back-aches, etc. Oh how their hopes must be raised when they hear the announcement, only to be dashed when they've never heard of the disease. But just think how much more frustrating it would be if you actually suffered from that disease. Your lottery number comes up but you now have to wait five years, not necessarily to prove that the treatment will actually cure or relieve your condition but to assess any potentially debilitating side-effects. The fact that the disease might have killed you in the meantime seems to have little bearing on the situation. I can't remember how long ago these regular announcements started, but it seems to me that it was after scientists started finding functions for our various genes after James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA in 1953. Until then the medical profession had been trying to persuade us that our medical problems were mainly the result of our lifestyle: we smoked and drank too much, exercised too little and ate too much, particularly too much of the wrong foods. I couldn't contradict the logic of their arguments, so obvious were they that I couldn't understand why I'd ignored them for so many years. And when I finally saw the light and adopted them, no way could I refute that the vast improvement in my health was due entirely to those simple changes and I still cannot. 4 Copyright of Allen Carr’s Easyway International 27.11.06 But now it would appear that it has little to do with our lifestyle. Ignore the fact, if you can, that half the planet is dying from obesity and watches the other half die of starvation or polluted water, but cannot understand why many of them turn to terrorism as an alternative to watching their children die, we are now being told that our real problems lie with the incredibly sophisticated intelligence that created us. It makes not the slightest difference whether you believe that intelligence to be the God you worship, a process of random selection, of natural selection or a combination of the three, apparently that intelligence blew it. Bear in mind that that process created us and not vice versa and that the human body is a million times more sophisticated than the most complicated space- ship or computer that mankind has been able to create. Also bear in mind that although wild animals might suffer from starvation or being underweight, they are never overweight. Obviously elephants will appear to be overweight compared to a stick insect. This is due to the needs of the particular species. And often to allow for periods of hibernation or shortages of food for other reasons, Mother Nature will arrange for increases or reductions in physical characteristics purely for survival reasons. But you will find that whatever the species, each member is roughly the same shape according to its size. Every day you can witness a human stick insect sat next to a human hippopotamus. But you will never see this with wild animals. This is because it is the recent and forever-changing, so-called, intelligence of mankind that dominates our eating habits, whereas the habits of wild animals are based on three billion years of trial and error. I find it somewhat ironic when so many research doctors end their discourse for explaining their failure to find the solution to a problem with the words: 'We need more research!' Yet at the same time: IGNORE THREE BILLION YEARS OF RESEARCH ! Similarly, the only person who has ever disputed my point about wild animals was a woman who wrote to me explaining how healthy her pet rabbits were. She then went into a lengthy discourse on their health problems and what would I advise. This was an intelligent lady, and I mention the point only to emphasize both the difficulty and necessity to keep an open mind. The eating habits of pets and other domesticated animals are dominated, not by Mother Nature, but by so-called intelligent mankind. The bulk of reliable medical knowledge has appeared only in the last two hundred years. Thalidomide and similar disasters are still fresh in my memory. There have even been recent instances where the doctor involved deliberately distorted the information on which his research was based. Please ponder this question: "How many of the announcements that I mentioned earlier can you remember that actually resulted in a proven and genuine 5 Copyright of Allen Carr’s Easyway International 27.11.06 benefit to the human race?" If your memory is the same as mine, and with the exceptions of anti-infective drugs that can stem killer plagues, the answer will be: NONE ! Is this THE GREATEST SCANDAL NEVER EXPOSED? On the contrary, I'm not even sure that the answer is correct. But assume that a doctor discovered an immediate, genuine and inexpensive cure for cancer or aids, with modern communications, how long do you think it would take to communicate the news around the world? Years? Months? Weeks? No. It would more likely be days or hours. Further assume that the cure involved no drugs, no surgery, no experiments on animals, needed no scientific studies or trials on human beings and was completely harmless with no side-effects whatsoever, how long do you think it would be before the disease was eradicated from the world? Surely it would be a matter of weeks. If the world's leading medical experts were aware of the doctor's claim, but for whatever reasons, hadn't bothered to check it out and over 20 years after the discovery, were still advocating treatments which actually made the disease worse, would this not be a scandal on a gigantic scale? Furthermore, assume that the world's media and politicians were also aware of the doctor's claim and not only chose to ignore it, but actually encouraged the medical profession to continue with their traditional, ineffective methods. Wouldn't that be the biggest scandal of all time? You are probably thinking that such a scenario couldn't happen in this enlightened day and age. If so you'd be wrong. Over 20 years ago I discovered an immediate, genuine and inexpensive cure for the no. 1 killer disease in western society. Amazingly this good news hasn't been announced on a single TV, radio programme or newspaper. I'M CONFIDENT THAT THIS IS THE GREATEST SCANDAL IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND AND I INTEND TO EXPOSE IT TODAY ! 6 Copyright of Allen Carr’s Easyway International 27.11.06 CHAPTER 2 THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS BOOK This book has three main objectives: 1: To prove to you that the cure is genuine. 2: To show that it has been ignored by Governments, the established medical profession and the media for over 20 years, and 3: To eradicate this scandal as soon as possible. You may have already have formed the impression that the subject matter is one of doom and gloom, is not to your taste and is somewhat narrow. If so, nothing could be further from the truth. It deeply involves every person on our planet and I have nothing but good news for you. Furthermore, if you read with an open mind, you may well find this book more interesting than Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie or the Da Vinci Code and what's more, you'll be reading fact rather than fiction. However it is essential to keep an open mind. If you have no doubts in that respect, be warned, you are probably doomed to failure even before you start. How often do you meet someone who is bigoted or closed-minded? Let's face it, we're surrounded by them. But I'll wager you've never met a single one who actually admitted to being so! So who are all these closed-minded people? They are me, you and everyone else on the planet. From birth we are all subjected to massive daily brainwashing which distorts our true perspective of the world. Allow me to use Galileo as an example particularly as my problem is similar to his. He was actually brave enough to contradict the unanimous opinion of the accepted authority of the day, namely the established Church, and to suggest that the earth moved around the sun and not vice versa. In fact he was imprisoned for his effrontery and it took the Church over 400 years to admit he was right. It wasn't until 1979 that Pope John Paul II admitted the Church's error and praised Galileo as a scientist. Fortunately I've managed to avoid incarceration so far. But poor Galileo had his work cut out. He not only contradicted the experts, but everyone on the planet 7 Copyright of Allen Carr’s Easyway International 27.11.06 can clearly see that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. In fact it doesn't! It only seems that way because of the perspective from which we view it. Apart from Galileo, I don't suppose it made much difference to the daily lives of people in those days. However, the myths and illusions that I intend to expose have a disastrous effect on our lives and it is absolutely essential that you distinguish brainwashing, myth and illusion from fact. You can only do this if you start with your mind as a clean sheet. Ignore anything you have been previously told about the subject, no matter how often you have heard it repeated by people whose opinions you respect or how expert you believe those people to be. I will be presenting you with statements as established facts on both sides of the case and you will be the sole judge as to the truth. You might initially find some of the facts that I present so outrageous that you conclude this is a work of fiction or that the author has escaped from a mental institution. Neither is the case. In fact I'm widely accepted as the world's leading expert on this disease, even by the medical profession, the media and politicians. However you must be sceptical about me. If I can establish the statement as a fact at the time, I will do so and it will be up to you whether you accept it. Otherwise I will prove the point in due course. All I ask is that, if at any time you are tempted to cast this book into the rubbish bin, please DON'T!! Unfortunately what is essentially a very simple concept has been made unnecessarily complex by the brainwashing, myths and illusions and it is not always possible to remove them in the sequence we need to follow. It is also essential to stick rigidly to the sequence in which the book has been written. You can always refer back to refresh, but to jump forward would create confusion. The key at this stage is to open your mind to the fact that no matter how outrageous any statement may appear at the time it is made - and I don't expect you to accept it at the time - I will prove it in due course. I have one final warning before we proceed. You might well have already informed the impression that I am the most arrogant, big-headed so-and-so it has yet been your misfortune to come into contact with. If so, I apologise for this. However, I have important information to reveal and regret that I cannot afford the luxury of false modesty. So please just accept that I'm presenting the facts in the most honest way I can and try not to let my manner divert your attention from that important information. At our clinics, in order to make a particular point, I'm often in the habit of drawing a smoker's attention to a particular pattern of behaviour. At times I have forgotten that in this book, I'm not just addressing smokers but ex-smokers and people who have never smoked and have found myself making statements like: "Take six deep, consecutive inhalations now! Unless you are a smoker, please ignore any such instruction on my part. It would indeed be a tragedy, if in my desire to rid the world of nicotine addiction, I were unwittingly to increase the number of 8 Copyright of Allen Carr’s Easyway International 27.11.06 smokers. We can now turn to the disease I am referring to. Have you heard about: DEVASTATION ? 9 Copyright of Allen Carr’s Easyway International 27.11.06 CHAPTER 3 DEVASTATION DEVASTATION is an extract from a plant indigenous to South America and is the same genus as deadly nightshade. It is the most addictive drug known to mankind. Over 60% of adults become hooked. It is a powerful poison and is used commercially as an insecticide. It gradually breaks down the immune system, causes breathlessness and lethargy and, according to the latest medical statistics, kills one in two of those who are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it. It tastes foul and systematically destroys the nervous system, causing a feeling of insecurity and a lack of confidence. It currently costs the average UK addict around £100,000. What does it do for them? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ! Could I persuade you to try it? Of course not. Who would be that stupid? If you were addicted to it and you knew of an easy, immediate, permanent and inexpensive cure, wouldn't you take advantage of it without hesitation? If your answer is no, then you've no need to doubt my sanity. On the contrary, start doubting your own. Can you believe that over 99% of the population of Western society has experimented with this drug and at one time over 90% of adult males were actually addicted to it? The more discerning reader will already have deduced that DEVASTATION is the drug we know as nicotine, or to put it another way: being a smoker. But let's be honest, what smoker, ex-smoker or non-smoker - someone who’s never fallen into the nicotine trap - would see the smoking habit in that light? Incidentally, I've styled such phrases as 'smoking habit', 'giving up smoking', 'happy smoker', etc in italics because they are common illusions. As I will explain shortly, smoking isn't a habit but nothing more nor less than addiction to nicotine. If you find that concept difficult to accept, ponder the question: Do cocaine sniffers do it because they enjoy sniffing or because they are addicted to coke? If I were writing this book a hundred and fifty years ago I would be asking you: Do people sniff snuff because they enjoy sniffing, or because they are addicted to nicotine? Snuff-taking was a previous form of nicotine addiction before cigarettes. It too was a filthy, disgusting habit and, just as silver and gold cigarette cases and lighters were once fashionable, trappings such as silver snuff-boxes were used to make it 10 Copyright of Allen Carr’s Easyway International 27.11.06 appear sociable and acceptable. Incidentally, if you have visions of switching to a pipe or an occasional cigar, forget it. References to cigarettes include anything containing nicotine. I emphasize this is good news not bad! NICOTINE ADDICTION IS THE MOST INGENIOUS CONFIDENCE TRICK THAT MOTHER NATURE AND MANKIND HAVE COMBINED TO LAY ! A confidence trick is an illegal operation by which an otherwise honest person is being swindled. An example will help. A couple saves all their lives for the perfect retirement home. After much searching they find exactly that. The location, the house, the garden, are all better than they'd hoped for. The sellers even agree to a reduction in the purchase price. The buyers willingly put down a large deposit which represents the down-payment. The operation starts off very smoothly, but then snags start to creep in one after another. Eventually the couple become suspicious and decide to drop out. But they can't get their money back. It turns out that the agent has sold to, and taken deposits from, dozens of other buyers. But aren't such deposits refundable? They are if the agent is honest, but this agent happens to be a con artist and scarpers with their money. Perhaps the couple could be described as happy house buyers until they discovered the whole operation was a mere confidence trick. If they'd had the full facts at the beginning, no way would they have been buyers, let alone 'happy buyers'! Now please reread my definition of DEVASTATION at the beginning of the chapter, reproduced here for your convenience: DEVASTATION is an extract from a plant indigenous to South America and is the same genus as deadly nightshade. It is the most addictive drug known to mankind. Over 60% of the adults become hooked. It is a powerful poison and is used commercially as an insecticide. It gradually breaks down the immune system, causes breathlessness and lethargy and, according to latest medical statistics kills one in two of those who are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it. It tastes foul and systematically destroys the nervous system, causing a feeling of insecurity and a lack of confidence. It currently costs the average UK addict around £100,000. You can check out all the facts for yourself, in fact you are already aware of most of them. But is that how we see the somewhat dangerous, expensive and filthy pastime of being a smoker? Let me make it clear. The optimist sees the bottle as half full, the pessimist sees it as half empty! We need to see and ensure that our children see the reality: THE TOBACCO BOTTLE IS FULL BUT IT'S FULL OF POISON !