With caffeine it started with 1 35p energy drink a day from about age 15-16 then 2 35p energy drinks a day then 1 69p energy drink (500ml) then a 69p and a 35p then 2 monsters then 2 monsters and some coffee later. I wouldn’t even engage with anyone until I’d had my two monsters which I’d down one after the other. Allen Carr's Easyway is a fundamentally different approach to recovery than conventional substance recovery programs. As opposed to most other methods, Carr's program works without the use of willpower (hence, Easyway). Developed in his first book, Easy Way to Stop Smoking, Carr's approach helps people quit their addictions by getting them to challenge their assumptions of benefit. The method is simple: realize the ugly truth about the nature of your problem and deliberately undo your conditioning toward it. This approach works by changing one's desire, not by changing one's behavior toward the desire. As one learns more about their addiction, their internal cost-benefit equation regarding it changes. When what was once seen as fun and pleasure is now seen as dangerous and toxic, avoiding the behavior is effortless. In contrast to willpower techniques (various types of forced abstention techniques), which logically and inevitably entail an internal, psychological conflict between "I want" and "I shouldn't," Easyway doesn't involve any conflict at all. It is a method of destroying the basis for "I want" so that all that remains is a sober view of the object of the addiction and "I shouldn't" wins by default. His approach isn't unlike some types of CBT. So if the drinker gives in to their craving, the anger and upset starts to subside with the first sip – long before the drug has had time to take effect.

Alcohol withdrawal creates a fear in drinkers that can prevent them even attempting to stop drinking. It’s the drinker’s mind that craves alcohol, not their body. The belief that alcohol provides some kind of pleasure or crutch is an illusion.

However, the most effective way to prevent alcohol withdrawal symptoms is to get the facts, not the fiction. Trust us, you’ll be pleasantly surprised and quit drinking easily with Allen Carr’s Easyway. Alcohol withdrawal refers to the physiological and psychological symptoms experienced by individuals who abruptly cease or reduce their alcohol intake after heavy and prolonged drinking.

Most drinkers can go a few days without a drink with no real discomfort – particularly if they know they can have one again soon. This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Carr also wrote a number of other how-to books on subjects such as losing weight, stopping alcohol consumption, and overcoming the fear of flying. Along with his close friends, protégés, & co-authors Robin Hayley (chairman, Allen Carr's Easyway) & John C. Dicey (Global CEO & Senior Allen Carr's Easyway Therapist), he wrote books dealing with gambling, debt/junk-spending, sugar addiction, emotional eating, mindfulness, tech/smartphone addiction, caffeine addiction, vaping/JUUL with Online Video Programmes handling smoking, vaping/JUUL, alcohol, cocaine, cannabis, sugar & carb addiction, emotional eating, gambling, caffeine addiction, fear of flying, and mindfulness. In 2020, it was estimated that Allen Carr's Easyway method had helped more than 50 million people worldwide. [9] [10] Of course if the parent gives in to the child and lets it have its toy, those symptoms will disappear in an instant.Drinkers go into withdrawal whenever they finish a drink. It is an illusion that there is physical withdrawal pain from the drug itself. We are never badly addicted to the chemical itself. I am a thoroughly happy teetotaller. I have not touched, or wanted, a drop of alcohol since the seminar (nor has Lucy). Easyway doesn’t focus on the downsides of drinking – instead the method answers the question “What’s so great about being a drinker?” Registered office – Park House, 14 Pepys Road, Raynes Park, London SW20 8NH, UK. | Tel: +44 (0) 20 8944 7761

It took me a lot longer to read this one as I didn't really want to finish it - guess I thought on some level that it was working.I wanted to say thank you as I have been now one year completely booze free after many years of alcohol fuelled misery.