Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol

Alcohol is a very powerful poison.

We only crave something if we believe it will provide us with a genuine crutch or pleasure. We only crave drugs because we are deluded into believing that they provide a genuine crutch or pleasure. Once the delusion is removed, so is the craving.

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.

if you retain the desire to have an occasional drink, you’ll spend the rest of your life trying to resist the temptation. And you won’t be seeing alcohol like strychnine!

Anyone who has been unfortunate enough to suffer from chronic alcoholism will know that it is not possible to exaggerate the depths to which you can sink.

We didn’t choose to drink any more than we chose to speak our native tongue. It was part of our heritage, our culture, our upbringing.

We assume that the reason we drank so much was because we enjoyed the taste, or the effect, or a combination of both.

The only reason that most people permanently have a glass in their hands at parties is that they are drinking alcohol, which dehydrates them. Because most people drink alcohol, an illusion has been created that you can’t be enjoying yourself unless you have a drink in your hand.

Inebriation is a process of gradually deadening your senses until you are rendered insensible or, to use the vernacular, until you are blotto.