And on the morning of 15 July 1983, after a coughing fit so severe his nose bled, Carr wracked his brains on how he could kick the habit that was killing him. Twenty four years later his habit had spiralled out of control to 100 cigarettes a day. By the age of 24 he was smoking 60 a day.
He smoked his first cigarette at the age of 16. He then trained as an accountant with the firm Peat Marwick, qualifying in 1958. In the minds of the public and much of the media, however, his unconventional approach to quitting smoking was accepted as something of a revelation.īorn in 1934 into a working class family in Putney, in south west London, Carr attended local schools before doing national service. Despite this reputation-or perhaps because of it-he remained at odds with the medical profession to the day he died. Allen Carr enjoyed the status of being the world's foremost anti-smoking guru, claiming he had helped millions to kick their deadly habit.
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