Stop Drinking Now (Allen Carr's Easyway, 14)

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Carr also wrote a number of other how-to books on subjects such as losing weight, stopping alcohol consumption, and overcoming the fear of flying. Along with his close friends, protégés, & co-authors Robin Hayley (chairman, Allen Carr's Easyway) & John C. Dicey (Global CEO & Senior Allen Carr's Easyway Therapist), he wrote books dealing with gambling, debt/junk-spending, sugar addiction, emotional eating, mindfulness, tech/smartphone addiction, caffeine addiction, vaping/JUUL with Online Video Programmes handling smoking, vaping/JUUL, alcohol, cocaine, cannabis, sugar & carb addiction, emotional eating, gambling, caffeine addiction, fear of flying, and mindfulness. In 2020, it was estimated that Allen Carr's Easyway method had helped more than 50 million people worldwide. [9] [10]

New for Oct 2023 – Our video on-demand service enables you to use the Easyway to quit alcohol method when you want, where you want. Stephane, M., Arnaout, B., & Yoon, G. (2018). Alcohol withdrawal hallucinations in the general population, an epidemiological study. Psychiatry research, 262, 129-134.Allen John Carr [1] (2 September 1934 – 29 November 2006) was a British author of books about stopping smoking and other psychological dependencies including alcohol addiction. Having read the easy way to quit smoking book years ago and successfully quitting i don’t know why I waited so long to apply the same to drinking. Frings, Daniel; Albery, Ian P.; Moss, Antony C.; Brunger, Helen; Burghelea, Meda; White, Sarah; Wood, Kerry V. (2020). "Comparison of Allen Carr's Easyway programme with a specialist behavioural and pharmacological smoking cessation support service: a randomized controlled trial". Addiction. Alan Carr. 115 (5): 977–985. doi: 10.1111/add.14897. PMC 7186816. PMID 31968400. S2CID 210866371. We’re not saying no one ever goes through the DTs – we’re saying it is very, very rare. If you find yourself in any serious discomfort – just go and see your doctor.

Allen Carr's Easyway is clinically proven through two randomised controlled trials. In 2020 a UK randomised clinical trial found Allen Carr's Easyway as good as, if not better than, the Gold Standard NHS Programme which uses NRT & 1-1 psychological support [5] and in 2018 an Irish trial found that Allen Carr's Easyway was almost twice as effective as other smoking cessation methods available on Health Service. [6] However, if an individual quits using willpower alone they can get into a terrible state in a matter of hours. Alcohol withdrawal refers to the physiological and psychological symptoms experienced by individuals who abruptly cease or reduce their alcohol intake after heavy and prolonged drinking. Beyond the value of Easyway as a whole (which deserves 5 stars) and its application to alcohol addiction, I found Quit Drinking to be a little too dogmatic. Carr's assertions that the only benefit from alcohol is that it satisfies a prior craving for alcohol (created by the unease of detoxing the previous drink), that any benefit to alcohol is merely perceived and not real (because the terrifying prospect of chemical addiction forces one to rationalize their enjoyment of alcohol), and that all of alcohol's "virtues" are false is too strong a claim to make. Alcohol has many terrible effects, but it does have a few true non-circular benefits. For example, alcohol is known to temporarily reduce self-consciousness and social anxiety. Carr himself admits alcohol is useful as an antiseptic and anesthetic. These facts undermine Carr's message in Quit Drinking - which sometimes can take an aggressive tone - but not the Easyway method. I am not sure I will become a lifelong nondrinker, but reading Quit Drinking destroyed almost all of alcohol's appeal to me.The reality is that drinkers go into withdrawal whenever they finish a drink. It is an illusion that there is physical withdrawal pain from the drug itself. We are never badly addicted to the chemical itself.