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DIED. Allen Carr, 72, onetime accountant and five-pack-a-day smoker who, in 1983, gave up cigarettes and fashioned himself into a smoking-cessation guru, penning the best seller The Easy Way to Stop Smoking; of lung cancer; near Malaga, Spain. Carr believed smoking was less physically addictive than usually thought and that the main obstacle to quitting was psychological. He later applied his fear-conquering strategies to other concerns, writing books on the easy way to stop worrying and to control alcohol consumption...
...DIED. Allen Carr, 72, onetime accountant and five-packs-a-day smoker who, in 1983, gave up cigarettes and fashioned himself into a smoking-cessation guru, penning the best-seller The Easy Way to Stop Smoking; of lung cancer; near Malaga, Spain. Carr believed smoking was less physically addictive than usually thought, and that the main obstacle to quitting was psychological. He later applied his fear-conquering strategies to other concerns, writing books on the easy way to stop worrying and to control alcohol consumption...
...Another undeniable is that pot has cachet among teens. Some kids between 13 and 19 are clearly willing to risk everything to smoke the stuff - they know how much trouble they can get in. The "smoker" label seems as important a part of their personae as their tastes in music and clothing - maybe more so because it's illegal. It's as defining for them as it was for my pothead friends in the '70s. Maybe they'll become investment bankers...
...high school that I really started “lighting up” on the regular. That went on for three long, happy years. During that time, I probably took a thousand study breaks and met literally dozens of girls. I was known as “the smoker,” and in some circles, “smokey.” Now, thanks to an old Russian man from Brookline, it’s all over, and I’ve been smoke-free for three weeks. The man’s name is Yefim Shubentsov, a.k.a...
...authors favor the all-or-nothing approach used by organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous because of its simplicity. The alcoholic who can learn to drink socially, or the chain-smoker who can puff occasionally, is a rare bird. Dieters can't entirely give up food, of course, but they can draw an uncompromising line when it comes to sugar...