You may be worried that quitting comes with bad physical symptoms because sites such as ‘Drink Aware’ talk about trembling hands, nausea, sweating and other effects but these are extremely uncommon and in the small print these sites say that too.

For another example, at one point Carr argues that if alcohol really makes people happy, they should get happier the more they drink ad infinitum, and thus this can't be the case. For this CBT (and any other CBT) to work, you have to actively question your cognitions, hence it does not work for a everyone.All drug addicts feel uncomfortable in the presence of people who aren’t addicted: they know that what they are doing is stupid and people who aren’t in the same prison remind them of their stupidity.

Yet when you probe further they substantiate them as being “irritability, poor concentration, feeling shaky, feeling tired, difficulty sleeping or bad dreams”.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. Of course if you’re worried about stopping drinking you should talk to your GP but first find out a little more about the best way to stop drinking – Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Drinking and why you really don’t have to be afraid of alcohol withdrawal.