Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol

Pour yourself a generous measure of neat spirit. Before you drink it, take time out to close your eyes and make a solemn vow that it will be your last ever alcoholic drink. Concentrate on the foul taste, and ponder on how you were once conned into paying a fortune just to pour that filthy poison down your throat.

The only reason that most people permanently have a glass in their hands at parties is that they are drinking alcohol, which dehydrates them.

Also remember that you are not being deprived. It is the drinkers who are being deprived: of their health, their money, their energy, their courage, their concentration, their self-respect, their peace of mind and their freedom.

Drinking alcohol didn’t fill a void in your life; on the contrary, it created one.

I like to exercise daily, not because I’ve quit drinking, but for the purely selfish reason that all aspects of life are so much more enjoyable when you feel fit and healthy.

Four things you can’t have too much of are time, energy, love and money. Alcohol ravages all these things.

Once you have removed the goblin from your back you’ll probably find that you have been in the habit of wasting a lot of your time.

Think of it that way. Imagine that little monster as an evil goblin perched on your shoulders, tightening its legs around your throat and demanding endless supplies of alcohol. It is him that is dependent on alcohol, not you. Once you realize that, he has lost his power over you; the situation is reversed. You now control him. You are going to star

1. Are you clear that there are no advantages from taking alcohol? I don’t mean that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. I mean can you see that there are no benefits whatsoever? 2. Are you clear exactly why cutting down is not an option: why it has to be all or nothing?