Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol

Remember, any slight aggravation that you might suffer over the next few days is not because you stopped drinking, but because you started.

The alcohol trap is identical today as it was when you and I first fell into it. It consists of three separate pieces of brainwashing. The first is that the human mind and body are physically weak and deficient and need outside help in order to enjoy life and to cope with stress. This creates the belief that we need outside chemicals to compensate

But the main reason that concentrating on the evils of drinking makes it harder to control your intake, is that you concentrate all your efforts on to the problem, as if that in itself will provide a solution. You might find this point difficult to accept, but it is very important that you understand it from the outset.

Your body is incredibly strong and so are you. You are also self-contained. The human brain in control of the human body is the most sophisticated machine on the planet. We already possess within us every drug, every instinct, every agent we need to live long, healthy, happy lives.

In fact, many alcoholic drinks taste so unpleasant that even regular drinkers cannot bear them without adding mixers and sweeteners. This the case with all spirits. It is true that some people drink spirits neat. But they didn’t start drinking them that way. What happened is that as they became immune to the drug, they needed more and more to achie

It is all illusion. We are never addicted to the chemical itself. What addicts us is the belief that we get some genuine benefit from taking it, which in turn creates a false belief that you cannot enjoy certain occasions or cope with others without it. What addicts us in the case of alcohol is the inebriation! Or rather the illusion that the inebr

The moment you even start to ponder the thought of having just one drink, you are no longer using Easyway and it will have lost its protection. Make a habit of regularly reminding yourself how miserable you were as a slave to alcohol and of reliving the euphoria of ‘The Moment of Revelation’. Then serious alarm bells will ring in your mind if you e

Anyone who has been unfortunate enough to suffer from chronic alcoholism will know that it is not possible to exaggerate the depths to which you can sink.

crutch. When we took those first experimental drinks, there was certainly no pleasure. But for some strange