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The Easy Way to Stop Drinking
By: Allen Carr Publisher: Sterling Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Sterling Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 272 Publication Date: December 25, 2005
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
The Easy Way to Stop Drinking is a landmark work that offers a simple and painless solution to anyone who wants to escape from dependency on alcohol without feeling deprived.
Great information about alcohol I had a drinking problem for many years and have tried rehab, AA, and other self-help kinds of treatments to get alcohol out of my life. This is the book that actually worked. I was very skeptical at first, since I thought the title must be some kind of gimmick. I was expecting something like eat three bananas and chant for a half an hour a day kind of thing.
What the book does contain is not any kind of gimmick, but an incredibly thorough discussion about alcohol....what it does to you, and more importantly what it does not do to you. After learning the true nature of alcohol, I just don't want to drink any more. There isn't even any willpower involved.
Like a previous reviewer, I am amazed that this book/method is not in wider circulation. Perhaps the multibillion alcohol industry and the multibillion rehab from alcohol industry don't want people to know.
If you want to get rid of alcohol, please try this book. All you have to lose is a few bucks (probably less than you spend in a few days on booze)
Barely deserves 1 star! Sorry, I read this book, and I just don't get why there are so many good reviews about it. It seemed to me to be chapter after chapter after chapter of fluff. Not a good read if you ask me. I've read better books on this topic that have some real solutions. Don't waste your time with this one.
Should be required reading for teens and beyond!
This is an amazing book! I read it in one sitting and was mesmerized. I have known many AAers and it seems like they are waiting for the ax to fall. This is such a freeing way of escape from devastation. My only problem with the book is how withdrawal is treated so lightly. Yes, most people will just sweat and feel slight shakes, but others can experience Grand Mal seizures. My father did and ended up in the ICU for four days and the hospital for a week. I feel it's important to consult a doctor before instantly quitting. The principles are excellent and I enjoy the way he writes. I had three sips of a last drink and gagged through each of them. Poison. Yuck!
buy it! If you want to quit, buy this book now. It works. Take it from a hard drinker of 20 years. It works. Get it, turn off the TV and read it.
Focus on the substance, not the drinker Mr. Carr's approach to alcoholism is different from most--he focuses on the substance--alcohol, not the drinker. He persuasively argues that it is an insidious poison that has no beneficial qualities and threatens anyone who drinks it. He likens it to the pitcher plant, which is a type of passive Venus fly-trap, in which the insect voluntarily enters a trap. The trap contains nectar and leads towards a progressively steep chute. After entering the plant, the insect is surrounded by hairs that point only in one direction--downwards. I think the reason Carr encourages the reader not to jump to the end of the book is that much of the benefit is in being persuaded of the unredeemingly poisonous, yet gradual and insidious nature of alcohol. He also makes the case that the alcohol high for an advanced drinker is largely the absence of the temporary discomfort of abstinence. At the same time, the craving that characterizes many abstinent alcoholics is a product of a deep-seated belief that they are missing something pleasurable or psychologically necessary for their genuine happiness. By attacking this perception in its various ramifications, Carr persuades that only a person utterly convinced of the toxicity of alcohol and the illusory nature of its psychological benefits can quit and not look back with a craving. Although the book can be criticized for occasional overstatement and unnecessary asides, I think its essential points are valid and important to understand for anyone trying to quit. For those who find its factual assertions obvious and and its style poorly written, perhaps they should publish a better book with their superior understanding. So far, I've read few if any that are better.
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