Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 9)

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I took the attitude that I would rather have the shorter, sweeter and more exciting life of the drinker and smoker, than the longer more mundane life of the abstainer. I must emphasize that if that were the real choice, I would still be smoking and drinking heavily. Correction, I wouldn’t be here.

Is it peculiar that a man who hasn’t allowed alcohol in his mouth in 20 years considers himself an alcoholic, and a man who gets paralytic after drinking 10 pints is not regarded as one, but merely spending a relaxing weekend. There’s grandma who’ll have a glass of ginger wine at Christmas at one end of the scale; and then there’s uncle Ted who has a ‘hair of the dog’ moment when he gets out of bed, and continues to drink until he’s paralytic. Somewhere in between lies every drinker in the world. I would define cowardice as: failure to act as my conscience dictates, because of fear of physical injury or ridicule.

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NICE guidance on treating tobacco dependence says that the Easyway in-person group seminar should be available through the NHS for adults who smoke..Evidence shows..[it is] cost effective and value for money for NHS. Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence NICE guideline [NG209]

I ended up reaping some great unexpected benefits, too. Sure, I feel better and I wake up more excited, but my mood has balanced out a lot. And I have always been someone who has a very uneven mood. I has allowed me to remove delusional beliefs in other areas of my life as well. You don't recognize how brainwashed you are until you start going through it one by one. My recommendation is to keep this self improvement going with a book like miracle morning or practicing mindfulness. Fear is a warning of danger, a warning which, as in the case of the burglar alarm, could either prove to be real or unfounded. To remove fear through any means other than removing the cause of the fear, is like believing that you put out the fire merely by turning off the alarm. Treatment of the Depressed Alcoholic Patient (2012) – J DeVido, R Weiss Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2012 Dec; 14(6): 610–618 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3712746/ Being less enjoyable, especially when you’re out with your friends, you think you’ll have a hard time adjusting to life without alcohol without something that seemed to be part of you for so long.This book broke the alcohol spell. I was then able to make clear choices about what I really wanted for me life. Yes there’s been some tough times when I’ve gone into the old thought pattern- ‘ah I really need a drink’. But because I’m no longer physically and emotionally addicted I can make the rational decision ‘alcohol won’t serve me at this time’. Moderate alcohol consumption and the immune system: A review (2007) – J Romeo, J Warnberg, e Nova, L Diaz, S Gomez-Martinez, A Marcos British Journal of Nutrition Vol 98 Issue S1 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/moderate-alcohol-consumption-and-the-immune-system-a-review/D340A16DDC772F6F2625001BD4AD430B Offer support by attending appointments or meetings together, if they feel comfortable with your presence. I think one of the best things about this method vs the willpower method is I don’t constant want a drink. I have literally lost the desire to drink. Now do not get me wrong, there are times where I have had a bad day and could use a drink but I think that is more of what society has told us to do vs what my body actually wants. John: Tell us a little about the day you attended the seminar. What was it like? How many people attended it? What was the atmosphere like?

My problem was that when I wanted to lose weight and look at my overall health I COULDN’T give up those two glasses. I tried with will power but I was miserable and felt deprived. I became angry that ‘my little helper’ was gone. Life just didn’t seem worth it. Another thing that really changed my mind about getting shitfaced was when he said, since you love alcohol and it reduces your senses sometimes to the point of unconsiousness, then you must think going a few rounds with McGregor in the Octagon is positively charming. That’s the nature of all such drugs: the more they drag you down, the greater the apparent need for them. The greater this need seems the more you have to try and justify it by pretending – to yourself and to everyone else – that you are in control. But why would you need to do that if you really did feel in control? You didn’t lose control: YOU WERE NEVER IN CONTROL!So much of modern medicine is based on pills or medicines that remove the symptoms of the disease and not the cause. You can continue to enjoy your trips to the pub, go out, deal with stress and boredom, and even feel more relaxed without suffering from unpleasant withdrawal symptoms or gaining weight without longing for alcohol or envying other drinkers.