Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Control Alcohol

By Rober Glover

Allen Carr, a former chain-smoker for almost a third of a century and now the world’s leading authority on how to quit smoking claims to have cured 5 million people worldwide with his Easy Way method. Furthermore, he states that most of them found it easy and enjoyable to quit this terrible habit that has been likened to withdrawal from heroin. This man, who has sold millions of books on the subject, has established clinics all over the world and the success rate has been phenomenal. He has now turned his attention to helping alcoholics with his latest book The Easy Way To Control Alcohol.

Carr believes he can help anyone control their drink problem easily, immediately and permanently. He refutes the statement made by Alcoholics Anonymous which proclaims that:

“Alcohol is a fatal illness for which there is no known cure”

According to its own doctrine, there is no cure for alcoholism and the road to recovery can be a long and painful one.  Carr sees alcohol as a highly addictive, powerful poison that will shorten your life considerably, wreck your immune system, your confidence, your courage and ability to relax.  It will cost you about $200,000 in your lifetime and do absolutely nothing for you.  This drug that so many of us take is responsible for turning genuinely nice people into thugs, wrecks families and marriages, causes people to lose their jobs, kills millions in traffic accidents, and costs the tax payer millions in health care for those suffering from the effects of alcohol . So, in his new book, Carr lays out a complete, easy, and inexpensive cure that works for anyone with a drink problem.  He believes his cure requires no willpower, involves no suffering or withdrawal symptoms, enables one to enjoy social occasions more, leaves you better equipped to handle stress and involves no feeling of sacrifice or deprivation or need to resist temptation.   There are twenty-seven chapters in this book questioning such things as the removal of inhibitions, whether or not alcohol gives you courage, and drug addiction.  Carr categorically claims that you must read each and every one of these chapters before you read the final instructions.  He feels that if you don’t do this, it would be like learning how to dive and then jumping into a swimming pool without any water.

One of the most obvious reasons why people begin consuming alcohol, according to Carr, is that 90 percent of the adult population drinks, and as we begin adulthood we are brainwashed into believing that it is the socially acceptable thing to do.  Children drink lemonade and coca-cola; adults drink beer, wines, and spirits.  Our whole lifestyle soon becomes dependent upon it and as well as believing we can’t enjoy social occasions without it, we also think we can’t handle stress without it.  For many people, life seems miserable without it and that is why it is so difficult to quit.

People who have tried to give up a drug, whatever it may be, suffer from very similar withdrawals.  They have an empty, insecure feeling similar to the hunger for food.  Because it cannot be separated from hunger or other causes of distress, and because we don’t suffer it whilst we are taking it, we don’t regard the drug as causing the distress.  Taking another dose of the drug during the withdrawal period will momentarily relieve that part of the distress which was caused by the withdrawal, making you feel more confident and relaxed than you did a moment before.  Because you receive that pleasure while you are taking the drug, your brain is fooled into believing that the drug is providing a genuine pleasure, which confirms all the brainwashing. 

Carr goes into great detail to convince you that there is nothing positive about this legal, socially acceptable drug.  Towards the end of the book, he offers the following advice for those of you out there who are serious about quitting:

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