Allen Carr was an accountant and smoked 100 cigarettes a day until he
gave up and wrote the bestselling book Easy Way to Stop Smoking. He has built a hugely
successful network of stop-smoking clinics across the world and is the
author of The Only Way to Stop Smoking, How to Stop Your Child
Smoking, The Easy Way to Enjoy Flying and The Easyweigh to Lose
Weight. In 2004 Allen published his bestselling autobiography Packing
It In.
He was diagnosed with lung cancer in the summer
of 2006 and died in November of the same year. It seems likely that the
years he spent curing smokers in smoke-filled sessions at his clinics
must have contributed to this illness, but Allen Carr remained positive;
'Given that I am informed that I have cured at least 10 million smokers
on a conservative estimation, it's a price worth paying.'
