Easy Way to Quit Drinking Allen Carr
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I tried to find the coherent argument as I was reading but couldn't connect. In the end the message seem to be that to give up alcohol you must read the book, not feel guilty and stop drinking. Do you need to read 200 pages to learn that? I am currently, maybe 4/5ths, through, Tania Glyde's Cleaning Up - and that is so much better. But then she's a writer.
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Quit Drinking Without Willpower is a book using Easyway to help people eliminate the desire to drink alcohol. Overall, Carr's claim is certainly true. Most drinkers ("normal" and otherwise) are not aware that they are addicts to a drug that will harm their health, spend their money, ruin their relationships, corrupt their happiness, impair their judgment, and impede their progress; being unaware of their own addiction, and the subsequent rationalizations an addicted mind makes, they believe alcohol is genuinely a good thing, that it adds substantial value to their lives, that it improves their sociability, that life would be much poorer without it, etc. However, if they reeducate themselves and reinterpret their "fun habit" as something vicious, then they begin to see the so-called poison as real poison, and they can escape the alcohol trap easily and become a happy nondrinker (just as we are all presumably happy nondrinkers of arsenic).
Beyond the value of Easyway as a whole (which deserves 5 stars) and its application to alcohol addiction, I found Quit Drinking to be a little too dogmatic. Carr's assertions that the only benefit from alcohol is that it satisfies a prior craving for alcohol (created by the unease of detoxing the previous drink), that any benefit to alcohol is merely perceived and not real (because the terrifying prospect of chemical addiction forces one to rationalize their enjoyment of alcohol), and that all of alcohol's "virtues" are false is too strong a claim to make. Alcohol has many terrible effects, but it does have a few true non-circular benefits. For example, alcohol is known to temporarily reduce self-consciousness and social anxiety. Carr himself admits alcohol is useful as an antiseptic and anesthetic. These facts undermine Carr's message in Quit Drinking - which sometimes can take an aggressive tone - but not the Easyway method. I am not sure I will become a lifelong nondrinker, but reading Quit Drinking destroyed almost all of alcohol's appeal to me.
Related: Annie Grace's "This Naked Mind" is a personal retelling of Quit Drinking, but more plausible, more entertaining, and with updated scientific information.
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I was brought to this book by a mention in Holly Whitaker's Quit Like A Woman, and she was right-- in a couple days my relationship to alcohol has turned around. Painlessly. I bought a copy so I can refer back to it if my motivation every gets low again.
If you're struggling with alcohol -- whether you think you're an add
It is almost too easy. The late Allen Carr was a master of using logic to help smokers, overeaters, and drinkers look objectively at their vices and see a clear, simple way out.I was brought to this book by a mention in Holly Whitaker's Quit Like A Woman, and she was right-- in a couple days my relationship to alcohol has turned around. Painlessly. I bought a copy so I can refer back to it if my motivation every gets low again.
If you're struggling with alcohol -- whether you think you're an addict or not -- read this book. It changed my life & it made the change easy -- not hard.
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1. This book was referenced in Holly Whitaker's Quit like a Woman so I picked it up. Carr's fundamentally different approach to quitting alcohol is sublime and liberating. Of course, it's repetitive and pragmatic. Carr's method aims to undo years of brainwashing and has proven to be very successful.
You don't have to want to quit to read this book, and you have everything to gain from reading it. Take what works for you and use it to your advantage, wh
2. Yep, I read it twice. I need repetition.1. This book was referenced in Holly Whitaker's Quit like a Woman so I picked it up. Carr's fundamentally different approach to quitting alcohol is sublime and liberating. Of course, it's repetitive and pragmatic. Carr's method aims to undo years of brainwashing and has proven to be very successful.
You don't have to want to quit to read this book, and you have everything to gain from reading it. Take what works for you and use it to your advantage, whenever you need it.
Undeniably, alcohol is an insidious drug, an adroit killer.
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Just as the more the fly struggles the more trapped it becomes, so the more the alcoholic tries to exercise control the more precious the pleasure and crutch appe Once the drinker recognizes that his drinking is causing him a problem, he has not one new problem but two. When he is drinking he feels guilty and miserable, and when he is not drinking he feels deprived and miserable. I call this the "critical point" because at the same time he is drinking too much, he can't get enough to drink.<<..>>
Just as the more the fly struggles the more trapped it becomes, so the more the alcoholic tries to exercise control the more precious the pleasure and crutch appear to him, so the more dependent he feels. In order to control his intake, he has to exercise willpower and discipline. No matter how strong-willed he is, eventually he finds himself drinking more than he did before he decided to cut down. After several failed attempts to cut down, the alcoholic comes to the conclusion that the only solution is to quit completely.
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Normally inhibited people don't become more interesting when they are inebriated; on the contrary they become overemotional, repetitive, incoherent, and boring. It wouldn't be so bad if the inhibited person felt better for it, but they don't; they are in a stupor and you cannot appreciate a situation unless you have your senses to appreciate it with. - I disagree with that I'm afraid. I have a close acquaintance in fact, with whom we used to get along with just fine, until she gave up drinking completely after her pregnancy 8 years ago. Well, suffice it to say, both me and my husband, as well as her bridesmaid, happen to agree that she was much more interesting before she stopped drinking, as she's lost all her fun and became very uptight and boring since then.
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I'm having issues with his reasoning unfortunately :( He's comparing sober people, to people completely drunk, those who have no recollection the next day what they said or did instead of merely inebriated. Thus, his arguments are not convincing me at all, as he's referring 99% of the time to people who drink themselves into a stupor almost daily, not people who overindulge, which is what I'm interested at. Disappointing in general, even if there were a few good points in the beginning. ...more
Carr's writing style is very didactic, but his method is straightforward and he seems to me to take a much more reasonable approach to addiction and substance abuse than most. Though I don't know much about AA, it h
A lot more compelling than I expected. It was obvious from the start that I wasn't the target audience, so I can't say how well the method works for someone trying to quit alcohol (at times I didn't feel like I would have been convinced), but the Amazon testimonials had me intrigued.Carr's writing style is very didactic, but his method is straightforward and he seems to me to take a much more reasonable approach to addiction and substance abuse than most. Though I don't know much about AA, it has completely changed the lives of some of my friends, so I don't want to belittle that. But I loved that Carr's method is empowering and gives the choice back to the individual. Like the title implies, he doesn't make it any harder than it has to be.
Carr may seem patronizing and dismissive at first glance, but he's personally experienced years of alcohol and nicotine addiction, and helped countless others to overcome it. He's not naive in his perspective. This book has made me rethink the way I view both addictive and social behaviors and even some of my own habits.
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Years ago, I read the Easy Way to Stop Smoking and, magically, it worked. Immediately and absolutely. Haven't had a cigarette since.
So I figured... Why not?
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.
The problem is, I just didn't find it as convincing as the smoking book. Maybe that problem is me as, apparently, I am a very different drinker than Mr. Carr was.
Still, there were defin
Well, we will see, I suppose.Years ago, I read the Easy Way to Stop Smoking and, magically, it worked. Immediately and absolutely. Haven't had a cigarette since.
So I figured... Why not?
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.
The problem is, I just didn't find it as convincing as the smoking book. Maybe that problem is me as, apparently, I am a very different drinker than Mr. Carr was.
Still, there were definitely things that made me think about alcohol and alcoholism in a very different light.
Giving it three stars for now. Will reevaluate in a few months.
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These books break down addiction based on the brainwashing aspects behind them. It's a look at how you undergo drug addiction, booze or nicotine or whatever, based on bullshit. In under 300 pages he breaks all that garbage up, and showcases how underneath all of them lie the same two things: a lie, and plain drug addiction.
Phenomenal books, highly recommended.
Love these books. Read Carr's "Quit Smoking" as well.These books break down addiction based on the brainwashing aspects behind them. It's a look at how you undergo drug addiction, booze or nicotine or whatever, based on bullshit. In under 300 pages he breaks all that garbage up, and showcases how underneath all of them lie the same two things: a lie, and plain drug addiction.
Phenomenal books, highly recommended.
...more Nonetheless, this book is a great starting point for those wishing to achieve alcohol free lives.
Very motivating. Yet I couldn't grasp the actual Easyway steps which are described in the book? Or do I have to attend to Allen Carr's Easyway centers in order to learn that?Nonetheless, this book is a great starting point for those wishing to achieve alcohol free lives.
...more All in all happy with the book, very interesting and I'm away to enjoy my life now.
Just finished this and feeling positive that it has worked for me. It gets repetitive but that is the point as the message needs to be drummed in but this can make it a struggle to get through the middle. I'm also any ex smoker and Carr relates back to quitting smoking regularly which resonates with me but not sure how that the comparison would land with someone who has never smoked.All in all happy with the book, very interesting and I'm away to enjoy my life now.
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Their are many other books, on this subject, that are way more helpful.
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