


Second, his son John lent him a medical handbook which explained that the physical withdrawal from nicotine is just like an "empty, insecure feeling". First, the hypnotherapist told him smoking was "just nicotine addiction", which Carr had never perceived before that moment, i.e. There were two key pieces of information that enabled Carr to stop later that day.

However, it wasn't the hypnotherapy itself that enabled him to stop – "I succeeded in spite of and not because of that visit" and "I lit up the moment I left the clinic and made my way home.". He qualified as an accountant in 1958.Ĭarr finally stopped smoking on 15 July 1983, aged 48, after a visit to a hypnotherapist. London-born Carr started smoking while doing National Service aged 18.
