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2003, 10:10 GMT 'We'll turn you into a happy ex-smoker'  By
Thrasy Petropoulos  Colleen Dwyer Colleen Dwyer helps smokers to
quit As Chris Underhill, a north London estate agent, pulled up
at a set of traffic lights he felt ambivalent about the Allen
Carr stop-smoking session he had just attended.  It was supposed
to be - as the brochure put it - 'the easy way to stop smoking'.
But after five hours in a smoke-filled room with fellow hopefuls
and a group therapist he could not say whether he had smoked his
last cigarette.  Then he spotted a man in a car alongside his
with a cigarette hanging from his mouth.  "Mug," he blurted.  It
was a word he could not recall using before, but it came out all
the same.  And three years on, neither he nor his wife, Julia,
who also attended the clinic that day, have smoked another
cigarette.  High success rate  Chris's is a common story for
those who ha