Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol

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.

We already possess within us every drug, every instinct, every agent we need to live long, healthy, happy lives.

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.

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

It is only the misery of mentally craving for an illusory pleasure and/or crutch that keeps us hooked.

Acquiring a taste is merely building an immunity to a foul-tasting poison.

Part of the ingenuity of any addictive drug is to fool you into believing that life without it won’t be as enjoyable, and/or that you’ll be less able to cope with stress.

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

I don’t mean that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. I mean that there are no advantages whatsoever to taking alcohol.