Additionally, when you quit heroin, people don't try to convince you to start using it again, unlike quitting alcohol, where many will pressure you to start drinking again. Just as the more the fly struggles the more trapped it becomes, so the more the alcoholic tries to exercise control the more precious the pleasure and crutch appear to him, so the more dependent he feels. The same high success rate as our Group seminars but with complete privacy at one of our centres or via a live weblink from your own home. The Easyway™ method centers on removing the psychological need to drink—while the drinker is still drinking. That means that even if you drink very heavily it can’t possibly take more than a couple of days for every trace of alcohol to leave the body.

Normally inhibited people don’t become more interesting when they are inebriated; on the contrary they become overemotional, repetitive, incoherent, and boring.

He asserted that the "relief" smokers feel on lighting a cigarette, the feeling of being "back to normal", is the feeling experienced by non-smokers all the time. I thought I was happy enough before but this is a deep kind of happiness because I am fully present ALL of the time – no blurred edges.

It is a method of destroying the basis for "I want" so that all that remains is a sober view of the object of the addiction and "I shouldn't" wins by default.Thus, his arguments are not convincing me at all, as he's referring 99% of the time to people who drink themselves into a stupor almost daily, not people who overindulge, which is what I'm interested at. He wrote ten books which appeared as bestsellers on selected book ranking charts including his first book The Easy Way to Stop Smoking (1985). Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. What we are saying is that most of what people mistake for the physical withdrawal is in fact caused by the mind.