Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol

Back to the willpower attempt to quit. Let us suppose that you do have the willpower to survive a few hours, days, months or even years of the misery. Something else is happening that on first examination you might think is helping your attempt to quit, but in fact makes it harder. The moment you stop taking alcohol, all the powerful and valid reas

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

The only difference between the alcohol trade and the heroin trade is that one is legal and the other isn’t. The reason we find it so difficult to see them in the same light is that we label heroin addiction as the evil it is and alcohol addiction as ‘exhilaration’. We are looking at heroin from the outside, as non-addicts, so we can see it as it r

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

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.

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

Alcohol is a poison that will systematically and progressively destroy you physically and mentally.