Allen Carr dies from lung cancer

Ph3n0m

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6194670.stm




Who Allen Carr was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Carr


ED: Fixing link & providing background info. ...

johnnyrotten

WHO?

Page not found!

county

is he the bloke who wrote the give up smoking book

govinda

Allen Carr, the stop smoking guru. I think the OP meant this link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6194670.stm

mike65

Alan Carr

Mike.

Nalz

R.I.P as should be said

Heisenberg.

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Dragan

The Scientist wrote:

Ironic.


T.Sc.

Hardly. Smoking is not the only cause of lung cancer.

ziggy

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Dragan

ziggy67 wrote:

Thats true. He could have caught it from passive smoking.

Not to mention....

Air pollution from motor vehicles, factories, and other sources may increase the risk for lung cancer, but the degree of increase has not been established accurately.


Asbestos exposure increases the risk of lung cancer by 9 times. A combination of asbestos exposure and cigarette smoking compounds the risk by as much as 50 times.


Lung diseases, such as tuberculosis (TB) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), also create a risk for lung cancer. A person with COPD has a 4-6 times greater risk of lung cancer even when the effect of cigarette smoking is excluded.


Radon exposure poses another risk.


Radon is a by-product of naturally occurring radium, which is a product of uranium.


Radon is present in indoor and outdoor air.


The risk for lung cancer increases with significant long-term exposure, although no one knows the exact risk.


Certain occupations where exposure to arsenic, chromium, nickel, aromatic hydrocarbons, and ethers occurs may increase the risk of lung cancer.

thebaz

He was an ex-smoker , a heavy one at that , 100 a day -- but had given up 25 years ago -- scary -- shows how long it can reside --
Have to give up my myself, but i'm only 10 a day !

Dragan

100 a day is nuts alright!

It should be noted that my above posts are not meant to imply that I believe that Mr Carr did not end up getting lung cancer from smoking, I am merely trying to point out that "non smokers" should not be flippant when it comes to such ailments either, and should get regular check ups and blood work done.

chillywilly

mike65 wrote:

Alan Carr

Mike.

thats who i thought!!

well, RIP to the other allen carr!

ErinGoBrath

R.I.P. Allen.

A great man, help many people quit smoking for good (including me).

If anyones considering stopping smoking I'd encourage them to give his book a read.

J.R.HARTLEY

thebaz wrote:

He was an ex-smoker , a heavy one at that , 100 a day -- but had given up 25 years ago -- scary -- shows how long it can reside --
Have to give up my myself, but i'm only 10 a day !

noone can state that the smoking killed him, it definitely increased the poor chaps chances of Developing Lung Cancer, I would point people to dragans post about the many causes of this Disease

R.I.P. Alan Carr, a man who left a legacy that won't soon be forgotten.

Magic Pips

ziggy67 wrote:

Thats true. He could have caught it from passive smoking.

He spent 20 odd years in smoke filled clinics helping people quit smoking!

i tip my hat to him

thebaz

ErinGoBrath wrote:

R.I.P. Allen.

A great man, help many people quit smoking for good (including me).

If anyones considering stopping smoking I'd encourage them to give his book a read.

I must read the book , as i'd like to quit , but as i/m not a heavy smoker , 10 or less a day , and fairly active -- find it difficult to quit or want to !
Those adds a few years ago squeezing the tar from a lung , had an effect on me , but i'm back again .
As i'm off the booze , i need a vice (or maybe not !) .

ErinGoBrath

thebaz wrote:

I must read the book , as i'd like to quit , but as i/m not a heavy smoker , 10 or less a day , and fairly active -- find it difficult to quit or want to !
Those adds a few years ago squeezing the tar from a lung , had an effect on me , but i'm back again .
As i'm off the booze , i need a vice (or maybe not !) .

No harm in reading the book once over then. It's an interesting read and no scaremoungering is involved.

admiralofthefleet

should have read the alan carr book.

sorry

Rb

admiralgar wrote:

should have read the alan carr book.

sorry

Wow, what a poor joke.

Sad news alright, have been meaning to read his book for quite a while now (have it sitting here but never picked it up) but will probably get round to it someday soon...

Horizen

admiralgar wrote:

should have read the alan carr book.

sorry

boom tish

Mossy Monk

had a read of his book and it worked for a week

cold turkey succeeded at the end of it all

RIP though

admiralofthefleet

rb_ie wrote:

Wow, what a poor joke.

Sad news alright, have been meaning to read his book for quite a while now (have it sitting here but never picked it up) but will probably get round to it someday soon...

thats why i said sorry,
seriously though r.i.p., he helped a lot of people to stop smoking and thats a good thing

EKRIUQ

That book got me off 40 a day a great read for any smoker even if they don't intend giving up. No scare mongering just common sence.

Rip Allan Carr

Supercell

RIP Allan, you are the reason I quit the bloody smokes several years ago.

Sorry to see him go, his sacrifice is testimount to his message.

I'd still be smoking without his easyway book, pity for him he didnt write it 20 years earlier and saved himself.

Agent Smith

is it wrong that i'm smoking a camel filter while reading this?

MrJoeSoap

agent smith wrote:

is it wrong that i'm smoking a camel filter while reading this?

Thats for you to decide.

RIP, I heard on the radio he helped 100,000 people quit (think that was the stat).

J.R.HARTLEY

agent smith wrote:

is it wrong that i'm smoking a camel filter while reading this?

why is there something specifically wrong with camel filters as opposed to any other cigarette

bottlerocket

100,000? Thought it would've been more. This is sad, he was a good man and had a genuinely fantastic idea. As someone else pointed out, no scaremongering, no statistics just an approach that works. I heard today he wrote an open letter to Blair from his deathbed complaining about the current methods being supported by government funding - nicotine replacement, basically - while no funding has been given to his method.
Hasn't worked for me yet mind, but it's bound to as soon as I stop bottling out halfway through.

cianr

I heard on the radio he helped 100,000 people quit

Try 10 million: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6194670.stm

Anyway for someone to survive to 72 after years of smoking 100 a day is testament to his method.

I know I couldn't have given up without reading his book.

R.I.P.

Ardent

Helped me get off the smokes twice. Thanks Allen, RIP.

koneko

The Scientist wrote:

Ironic.

Ironic in an Alanis Morissette kind of way.... ? As in not ironic at all?

pepper

mike65 wrote:

Alan Carr

Mike.

No not THAT alan carr

Mr Carr, 72, developed what he called the 'Easyway' method to stop smoking and set up clinics all over the world, including Ireland.

tHE aLAN cARR PIC U PUT UP IS A DIFF GUY

WhiteWashMan

helped me to stop smoking twice.
every time i feel the need to smoke, ie, once every 3 months, i whip out the book and have a read for about 3 minutes, and im grand.

its worth a read if you really want to give up. none of this angsty, patch wearing, narky stuff.

has certainly helped an awful lot of people. any person who does that gets my respect.

and nice bloke to boot apparently as well.