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

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For anyone wondering on where I was before I was smoking 40 cigarettes a day (a lot for my age I think) Allen Carr". The Independent. London. 30 November 2006. Archived from the original on 2 February 2018 . Retrieved 6 February 2022. Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores the true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. For some people symptoms may intensify particularly if they are using the willpower method to stop abruptly including:

In 2021, Allen Carr's Easyway assisted the World Health Organisation's year-long global campaign for World No Tobacco Day 2021. [11] Personal life and death [ edit ] What we are saying is that most of what people mistake for the physical withdrawal is in fact caused by the mind. Allen Carr's Easyway is a fundamentally different approach to recovery than conventional substance recovery programs. As opposed to most other methods, Carr's program works without the use of willpower (hence, Easyway). Developed in his first book, Easy Way to Stop Smoking, Carr's approach helps people quit their addictions by getting them to challenge their assumptions of benefit. The method is simple: realize the ugly truth about the nature of your problem and deliberately undo your conditioning toward it. This approach works by changing one's desire, not by changing one's behavior toward the desire. As one learns more about their addiction, their internal cost-benefit equation regarding it changes. When what was once seen as fun and pleasure is now seen as dangerous and toxic, avoiding the behavior is effortless. In contrast to willpower techniques (various types of forced abstention techniques), which logically and inevitably entail an internal, psychological conflict between "I want" and "I shouldn't," Easyway doesn't involve any conflict at all. 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. His approach isn't unlike some types of CBT. An Open Letter to Tony Blair from Allen Carr 27/11/06". Allen Carr's Easyway. 27 November 2006 . Retrieved 23 March 2021. [ permanent dead link]

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Jesse, S., Brathen, G., Ferrara, M., Keindl, M., Ben‐Menachem, E., Tanasescu, R., …& Ludolph, A. C. (2017). Alcohol withdrawal syndrome: mechanisms, manifestations, and management. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 135(1), 4-16. In late July 2006, it was revealed that Carr had been diagnosed with lung cancer at the age of 71. His spokesman stated that this may not have been linked to his historical smoking habit, as he had been around smokers, and therefore exposed to their second-hand smoke, while treating them for their addiction. [12] The following month, Carr revealed that his lung cancer was terminal and that his life expectancy was about nine months. Carr said: "Since I smoked my final cigarette, 23 years ago, I have been the happiest man in the world. I still feel the same way today.” Carr wrote to the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair, urging the UK Government and NHS to accept his method, saying that the "powerful influence" of lobbyists working for nicotine replacement firms had turned them against him. [13] Since November 27, 2017, I have been completey sober from alcohol, caffeine, nicotine and other drugs. Later on, I limited consuming refined sugars to facilitate my recovery process. Mirijello, A., D’Angelo, C., Ferrulli, A., Vassallo, G., Antonelli, M., Caputo, F., …& Addolorato, G. (2015). Identification and management of alcohol withdrawal syndrome. Drugs, 75(4), 353-365.

Conventional wisdom asserts that alcohol withdrawal is a complex and potentially dangerous condition that occurs when individuals abruptly stop or significantly reduce their alcohol consumption after a prolonged period of heavy drinking. Keogan, S.; Li, S.; Clancy, L. (2019). "Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking – A randomised clinical trial". Tobacco Control. Alan Carr. 28 (4): 414–419. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054243. PMC 6589447. PMID 30361322. Martín, Lucas (22 April 2011). "El gurú antitabaco murió en la costa, en Benalmádena". La Opinión de Málaga (in Spanish). Málaga, Andalusia, Spain . Retrieved 6 February 2022. The agony that you would inflict upon yourself by remaining an alcohol addict would be a million times worse. Imagine you told someone with cancer there was a permanent cure, but they might have the sweats and the shakes for a few days. John Dicey, Global CEO & Senior Therapist of Allen Carr's Easyway". Allen Carr's Easyway . Retrieved 23 March 2021.Allen Carr's Clinics are run by therapists/facilitators who were once smokers and have used Carr's method to stop smoking. All therapists/facilitators are members of an association created by Allen Carr's Easyway organisation, Members of the Association of Allen Carr Therapists International (MAACTI), and membership indicates that the therapist/facilitator has completed the rigorous recruitment, and the comprehensive training & development process required before anyone can practise as an Allen Carr's Easyway therapist/facilitator. They can only do so under license with Allen Carr's Easyway (International) Ltd or Allen Carr's Easyway (US) Ltd. Beard, Matthew (30 November 2006). "Anti-smoking guru Allen Carr dies from lung cancer, aged 72". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 2 June 2021 . Retrieved 23 March 2021. A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. Carr offers a startling new view of why we drink and how we can escape the addiction. Step by step, with devastating clarity and simplicity, he applies the Easyway™ method, dispelling all the illusions that surround the subject of drinking and that can make it almost impossible to imagine a life without alcohol. Only when we step away from all these supposed pleasures and understand how we are being duped to believe we are receiving real benefits can we begin to live our lives free from any desire or need for drinking.The Easyway™ method centers on removing the psychological need to drink—while the drinker is still drinking. Following the Easyway™:• You will not need willpower• You will not feel deprived• You will lose your fear of withdrawal pangs• You will enjoy social occasions more• You will be better equipped to handle stress

Before I read this book, I had a severe poly-drug problem, including, alcohol, heroin, amphetamines, ketamine, morphine, GHB, antidepressants, antipsychotics, cannabis, MDMA, cocaine, sleeping pills, psychedelics and more. I always knew that alcohol was the root of all my problems. My drunken episodes would give me a hedonistic manic rush that lasted for weeks. During these binges, I would usually indulge in all kinds of drugs. I never succeeded in quitting alcohol, except for one month, but relapsed and binged again. This cycle repeated itself. Alcohol withdrawal varies according to a individual’s size, overall health, constitution, degree of tolerance, the severity and duration of alcohol abuse, and the presence of any co-occurring medical or psychiatric conditions but alcohol leaves the body at an average rate of one unit per hour. 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] In fact you don’t even have to wait for the first sip: the discomfort starts to subside on the way to the pub! They don’t disappear when the person takes a drink; they disappear when they decide to take a drink.

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If you are an extremely heavy drinker, have experienced Delirium Tremens or seizures in the past, been hospitalised as a result of alcohol cessation, or are concerned about abrupt cessation then you should discuss it with your GP or Physician before using Allen Carr’s Easyway. Carr died from lung cancer at his home in Benalmádena, west of Málaga, Spain, on 29 November 2006. He was 72 years old. [14] [15] [16] This article aims to provide an overview of alcohol withdrawal, including its causes, timeline, duration, preventive measures, and available treatment options. Once the drinker recognizes that his drinking is causing him a problem, he has not one new problem but two. When he is drinking he feels guilty and miserable, and when he is not drinking he feels deprived and miserable. I call this the “critical point” because at the same time he is drinking too much, he can’t get enough to drink.<<..>> His contention was that fear of "giving up" is what causes the majority of smokers to continue smoking, thereby necessitating the smoker's perpetuation of the illusion of genuine enjoyment as a moral justification of the inherent absurdity of smoking in the face of overwhelming medical and scientific evidence of its dangers. Instead, he encourages smokers to think of the act of quitting, not as giving up, but as "escaping".