The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
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The Easy Way to Stop Smoking is a bestselling self-help book by Allen Carr that offers a psychological method to help smokers quit without relying on willpower, medication, or nicotine replacement.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Easy Way to Stop Smoking canonical | 5 |
| Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking | 2 |
| Allen Carr's Easyway books | 1 |
| Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7617450 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Easy Way to Stop Smoking Context triple: [Allen Carr, notableWork, The Easy Way to Stop Smoking]
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A.
Quitters, Inc.
"Quitters, Inc." is a darkly comic horror short story by Stephen King about a sinister company that uses extreme methods to force clients to stop smoking.
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B.
The Ashtray Effect
The Ashtray Effect is a book by the philosopher and statistician David J. Hand that explores how cognitive biases and chance events distort our perception of probability and risk in everyday life.
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C.
Cold Turkey
"Cold Turkey" is a 1969 song by John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band, best known for its raw depiction of heroin withdrawal and its stark, minimalist rock sound.
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D.
Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health
The Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health is a landmark U.S. public health document that conclusively linked cigarette smoking to serious diseases and helped transform national attitudes and policies toward tobacco use.
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E.
Tobacco Free Initiative
The Tobacco Free Initiative is a World Health Organization program dedicated to reducing global tobacco use and its health impacts through policy, advocacy, and support to countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Easy Way to Stop Smoking Target entity description: The Easy Way to Stop Smoking is a bestselling self-help book by Allen Carr that offers a psychological method to help smokers quit without relying on willpower, medication, or nicotine replacement.
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A.
Quitters, Inc.
"Quitters, Inc." is a darkly comic horror short story by Stephen King about a sinister company that uses extreme methods to force clients to stop smoking.
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B.
The Ashtray Effect
The Ashtray Effect is a book by the philosopher and statistician David J. Hand that explores how cognitive biases and chance events distort our perception of probability and risk in everyday life.
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C.
Cold Turkey
"Cold Turkey" is a 1969 song by John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band, best known for its raw depiction of heroin withdrawal and its stark, minimalist rock sound.
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D.
Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health
The Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health is a landmark U.S. public health document that conclusively linked cigarette smoking to serious diseases and helped transform national attitudes and policies toward tobacco use.
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E.
Tobacco Free Initiative
The Tobacco Free Initiative is a World Health Organization program dedicated to reducing global tobacco use and its health impacts through policy, advocacy, and support to countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| aimsTo | help smokers quit smoking ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking
ⓘ
linked to:
The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
|
| author | Allen Carr ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticizedFor | limited scientific evidence ⓘ |
| describedBySource | bestselling self-help book ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
changing beliefs about smoking
ⓘ
removing fear of quitting ⓘ |
| genre | self-help ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
Allen Carr’s Easyway clinics
ⓘ
linked to:
Allen Carr's Easyway clinics
Allen Carr’s Easyway seminars ⓘ
linked to:
Allen Carr's Easyway clinics
other Allen Carr Easyway books ⓘ |
| hasPart | psychological method for quitting smoking ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
addiction
ⓘ
freedom from nicotine addiction ⓘ personal change ⓘ |
| intendedEffect | permanent cessation of smoking ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | smoking cessation ⓘ |
| methodAvoids |
medication for smoking cessation
ⓘ
nicotine replacement therapy ⓘ |
| methodAvoids | willpower-based quitting ⓘ |
| methodEmphasizes | psychological approach ⓘ |
| notableFor |
claiming quitting can be easy
ⓘ
minimizing withdrawal discomfort ⓘ |
| originalTitle | The Easy Way to Stop Smoking ⓘ |
| publicationType | non-fiction ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
people who want to quit smoking
ⓘ
smokers ⓘ |
| usedIn | self-help smoking cessation programs ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Easy Way to Stop Smoking Description of subject: The Easy Way to Stop Smoking is a bestselling self-help book by Allen Carr that offers a psychological method to help smokers quit without relying on willpower, medication, or nicotine replacement.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Carr
linked to: The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
linked to: The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
linked to: The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
linked to: The Easy Way to Stop Smoking