Allen Carr - Easy way to Stop Drinking
While this one is written specifically for those of you who have decided you want to totally stop drinking. Again, like his other book, it concentrates on the cognitive aspects of your alcohol problems - what you are telling yourself internally about alcohol.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:32 am
My problem with AA is that alcohol problems are automatically reduced to being seen as a disease. Maybe it’s just a semantic difference - but I think that problems with controlling alcohol are much more of an aberrated/oudated coping mechanism, than a disease. In other words, somewhere along the line, cognitively speaking, the drinker has programmmed themselves with the equation: emotional distress = use substance.
This is how it was for me for many years when smoking was my crutch. With the help of many aids (incl. Allen Carr’s amazing first book) I have somehow broken THAT equation. I am still, however, struggling to break the alcohol equation.
It is behaviour and thoughts and beliefs that need changing, not submitting to a long-outdated disease model of addiction, which focusses on illness, rather than wellness. With AA, one is always damaged, never recovered. With other programs, one has a history of addiction, but is recovering, and hopefully eventually ‘recovered’ - as I feel I am, with respect to smoking. I haven’t smoked in 6 years.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
I would like to know if you’ve tried any herbal supplements to beat the alcohol cravings - or any prescriped medication. If so, did any of them work?
May 28th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Did this book work for you?