Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol

This is the vicious spiral that constitutes the psychological core of an addiction. You know you must stop, but you also can’t stop, because the very thing that’s hurting you – alcohol – has come to feel like the only means of controlling the negative emotions that, in fact, your drinking is helping to cause. Perhaps it seems melodramatic to compar

The hard part is going against groupthink, the herd mentality of our alcohol-saturated culture. After all, alcohol is the only drug on earth you have to justify not taking.

You take away the drink and you take away the single most important method of coping you have. How to talk to people without a drink. How to sit on the sofa and watch TV and not crawl right out of your own skin. How to experience a real emotion—pain or anxiety or sadness—without an escape route, a quick way to anesthetize it. How to sleep at night.

As the whisky rose to my head I told myself I would manage better next time, but I might as well get good and drunk then. And I did.