Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol
What you really enjoy in an alcoholic drink is not the drink itself, but the ending of the irritation of wanting that drink. Non-drinkers enjoy that all the time.
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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
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the whole of society has been conned into believing there is something natural about administering regular doses of poison to our bodies.
Carr Allen • Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol
The alcohol trap is identical today as it was when you and I first fell into it. It consists of three separate pieces of brainwashing. The first is that the human mind and body are physically weak and deficient and need outside help in order to enjoy life and to cope with stress. This creates the belief that we need outside chemicals to compensate
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Drinking alcohol didn’t fill a void in your life; on the contrary, it created one.
Carr Allen • Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol
Yet in the UK, for example, heroin kills fewer than 1,000 people annually, whereas alcohol decimates the population. Currently, in the UK alone, in excess of 40,000 deaths per year are due to alcohol, and the figures continue to rise.
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The more you concentrate on the reasons you shouldn’t drink, the more deprived and miserable you will feel during the periods when you aren’t drinking: the forbidden fruit effect, and the more stupid you will feel when you do drink: the guilt effect.
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It is fear of the void that will be left that makes alcoholics frightened to quit or cut down. No doubt part of that fear is that there will be a void in their social life.
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If you have no desire to drink, you’ll have no desire to have an occasional drink. If you have a desire to have an occasional drink, you are already hooked. What causes us to go on craving? Is it the incredibly powerful addictive effect of the drug? No, it is ignorance: the belief that we are making a genuine sacrifice, that social occasions will
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