Using simple logic and rational decision making this book helped me remove the brainwash I had with regard to alcohol. Simple, effective conditioning that avoids relying on willpower. Post reading this book reminds me of how I felt before I started drinking and I hope I can maintain this mindset indefinitely.

i didn't even have to finish and i'm now 12 weeks zero alcohol

This is Amber's husband Chris. Let me start off by saying I hate reading. It has been the bane of my existence throughout my educational experience. I couldn't comprehend how someone can make something as tedious and boring as reading and make it worse till my wife introduced me to audiobooks. Then again I never thought I would be married with a baby a girl on the way either let alone someone who struggled with addiction. But, like anything else, under the right circumstances anything is possible. Just as incomprehensible as listening to an audiobook willingly was for me, so was allowing my life to be destroyed by something that seemed to be the norm for most people. I realize most of you won't understand my perspective since you are all readers just like most drinkers won't understand why people are alcoholics. The reality is we don't know. We don't know what sets us down the paths that we go...we just realize it once we're there. I don't think humans understand why we do the things we do. I feel life is just a series of choices we make. Unknowingly, my choices led me down a path that I ended up not wanting to be on. The strange part is that even though I didn't want to be doing it, I still did and I'm not referring to continuing an audiobook. Most reviews are about the book itself but this isn't about the book, it's about the path that led you to this book. This is your life and you decide how you want to live it. This is for those who know they want to change but don't know how. I've had two DUIs, totalled my car, had alcohol poisoning, been through rehab, ruined (almost) all my relationships with friends/family which some I will never get back but none of it helped. I accepted whole heartedly that I will drink till my last day regardless. That irrationality sounds insane to most but an alcoholic understands it. This book brings back the rationality. So sit back with a few beers and listen to this thinking it's impossible because that too is irrational and sounds insane to most but an alcoholic will understand as well.

With increasing awareness of the impact of media manipulation on our behaviour - the alcohol industry remains the elephant in the room.
Allen Carr offers a persuasive alternative to a life with alcohol, to whatever degree. Reminding us how fulfilling, exciting, energising as enriching life can be without it.
Amongst other things he tackles the various reasons people give for drinking (even just socially or to unwind at the end of the day) and how it so often masks an underlying issue that we would be better off tackling.

If you are even considering reading this for a second, don't delay and do it!!!

I cannot recommend this book enough, or any of Allen Carr's easy way books. I know it's hard to believe that all you have to do to control your alcohol consumption is to read a book but it really does work. I feel so happy and secure and in control. No withdrawals, no doubts, no feeling miserable without a social crutch. He reverses the brainwashing we have all been exposed to in society about alcohol. It is an addictive drug, but with Easy Way you can easily free yourself off that addiction by fully understanding the true nature of addiction. There is no void in my life any more, alcohol created a void that I then needed to fill with more alcohol. Man am I so so happy to be free!!

Someone on Joe Rogan's podcast mentioned Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking and praised it. This was not the first time I'd heard good things about the book. Since I don't smoke anymore, I checked out if the author had written about alcohol. It turned out he had.

There are some really good points and new perspectives in this book that I honestly hadn't considered before. Unfortunately they are shadowed by some equally bad logic and absolutely absurd assertions, which makes it hard to trust the author even on the better content.

For example, I can agree that pure alcohol tastes bad - but to argue with a straight face that therefore everything with alcohol tastes worse than without, is like saying that everything with salt tastes bad because salt by itself doesn't taste good.

For another example, at one point Carr argues that if alcohol really makes people happy, they should get happier the more they drink ad infinitum, and thus this can't be the case. By the same logic eating ice cream can't make a person happy, because eating a thousand ice creams will make him sick.

It's hard to believe that this book was written by a person who has been an actual alcoholic. The way he talks about alcohol sometimes reminded me of Steve Carell's character in The 40-Year-Old Virgin describing breasts to feel like bags of sand.

However, if one is ready to believe everything this book says without question, the method will most probably work. So if you find it helpful, more power to you - but I, for one, will not be recommending it to people who actually need help with quitting drinking.

It seems to me that alcohol is pervasive and ubiquitous in almost every culture on earth. It is not surprising that many people have issues with alcohol themselves or that someone near them does. In fact, I find it surprising if there are people who don’t have issues with alcohol themselves or someone they know. Whether you think you or someone you love has an alcohol issue, this book is an interesting insight into another way to look at alcohol. The author is British, and his writing style is somewhat comedic, somewhat caustic, but blunt and to the point. There are lessons to take to heart here. If you are a serious alcohol sufferer, I have no doubt that this book can help you control alcohol.

I appreciate the premise of this book which is to eliminate the desire to drink by pointing out how brainwashed we are and that we are consuming poison. It makes me not want to drink. Some of the book was repetitive. I also think some of it was a little dangerous in saying that people don't have alcohol withdrawals. People can and do die from that, so that is irresponsible of the author.

This book could have been 10 pages, but instead it's 300. The author just repeats himself over and over. His points are 100% valid, but the constant repetition and excessive use of cheap metaphors almost make me prefer alcohol and all its evils to "Easyway".

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Not as effective as the smoking book

I gave this 3 stars as didn't want my rating to discourage anyone from reading it. I found the smoking book excellent but this is not as good.

It feels like the same logic as the eastward to quit smoking with some changes and additional logic backed into it.

It may well be useful for some but it was only towards the end I noticed any real distinction between drinking and smoking was made.

Drinking has a social value associated with it that smoking doesn't and provides people some enjoyment by getting drunk which smoking doesn't.

I stopped smoking because of this man, this was 4 years ago (I think). I've never craved cigarette (despite the first weeks), which is more of a habit than anything else.

He has unique style of writing which really suits me. Maybe there were some weird examples and comparison here-and-there, but overall I really agree with him. I think the content of book can easily be mapped to any other addiction YOU consider harmful or not positive.

Let's see what happens from now on. :)