13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5 Mar 2003 Reviewer: A reader
If you are in any way (no matter how little) worried about drinking, this book will change your life forever. I will not try to include extracts of the concept because you really need to read it as instructed - from page one to the end - no skipping pages or paragraphs. Anybody who has given negative review of this book has either not read it as instructed, has failed to understand the whole concept - or simply has a closed mind.
The book is brilliantly written and the advice is first-class. As another reader has stated, this book should be in included in the National Curriculum. However, the drinks industry being as powerful as it is, there is no chance of that.
Buy this book (less than the price of a couple drinks) and your life could be changed for the better. Excellent!
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Don't be mislead by negative reviews
Effective, no-nonsense, clear and concise
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
30 Mar 2003 Reviewer: A reader
Apart from the numerous and varied 'self help' and 'spiritual' books I have read, my book shelf contains the following that specifically deal with addiction: AA's Big Book: Willpower's not enough: Addiction & Grace: The Zen of Recovery: The Truth about Addiction & Recovery: Wild Hunger. This book by Allen Carr is the best of them all because it has succeeded where they all failed. It has shed a very clear light on my addiction in a no-nonsense, clear and concise manner. Although I have literally just put the book down, I feel the elation of no longer being an alcohol addict instead of bemoaning the loss of 'using' a precious substance. I highly recommended it to anyone struggling with their use of alcohol.
This book gives the wrong impression
9 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
20 May 2003 Reviewer: A reader
For a start the title is misleading, it implies that you can control, but Mr.Carr insists on total abstinence. Much of what he says is common sense but some of his thinking is flawed by my reckoning. To all intents and purposes IT DOES TASTE NICE. I felt that I had missed the point of this book at the end and I'm sure it won't 'do it for me'.
Excellent ! It really does work,
34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
11 Jun 2003 Reviewer: A readerImagine you (having given up alcohol for the umpteenth time) are in a restaurant with friends watching with envy as they happily down your favourite chardonnay. Imagine the willpower you are having to muster to stop yourself succumbing to temptation yet one more time. Then imagine you leave the table and pass the open kitchen door where you spy the waiter urinating in the bottle he is about to bring to your table. How much willpower would it take for you to not touch the stuff then ? Well, Allen Carr's book is the literary equivalent of the waiter urinating in the wine bottle. You just don't want to drink any more - not even moderately. I know its hard to believe - but its true.
I now see all drinkers as alchohol addicts - no different from nicotine or heroin addicts. And if you think its preposterous to compare alcohol addicts with heroin addicts....you're absolutely right....alcohol ruins far more lives !
If you regularly drink more than you should, buy this book and get back your life.
Allen Carr's Easy Way to Control Alcohol
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
26 Jul 2003 Reviewer: A reader I'm a working Mum with two young children with a stressful job, with a husband who doesn't quite take on the more mundane of daily tasks! I have always drunk up to a stage in my latter years but have increased to a point that I feel I have a problem that couldn't be resolved. I bought Allen's book a year ago, read 4 chapters - then it went in a drawer. Feeling myself now in a vortex that is spinning downwards I have pulled the book out again and read it in on the train all week - being brave enough not to be embarrassed to open it in public. I'm only up to page 79 but it has got me thinking all the time - and yes, although I still drink at the moment, every drink I have I'm questioning myself 'does it tasted nice?' NO!
I'm looking forward to finishing the book because I feel that I'm half way to stoppping already. Determined not to give up this time! Best things of all is Allen makes you feel that we are not some incurable drunk but a REAL person who can conquer this. Let's go for it!
If Only I new the answers many years ago
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
30 Aug 2003 Reviewer: A readerThis book was bought not because I thought I had a problem drinking but because of my inner feeling that alcohol was not for me and I just seem to go along with the flow of society
I gave up alchohol after reading the first few pages and can honestly state that I have seen the light. Allen Carr can only be described as a person of open mindness who never tells you what to do in his book. I am sure there are many people out there like myself who really do want the answers to prevent this social disease and brainwashing in society.
Please just buy it and see for yourself. It will pay for itself when you stop buying that next drink.
Essential reading if you want to be free of the alcohol trap
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
21 April 2004 Reviewer: A reader
I discovered Allen Carr when I read the first couple of pages of his "StopSmoking" book at a friends house. I couldn't put it down and I knew Iwould be a non-smoker by the time I finished reading the book (I bought myown copy the very next day).
Then I discovered that he had adapted his Easyway method to includealcohol and that he had released his "Control Alcohol" book. I knew I hadto read it because I was very worried that I had lost control of mydrinking.
It's written in virtually the same style as his previous books and isutterly compelling reading from start to finish. It fills you with hopeand confidence and uses the power of rational thinking to dispel the mythssurrounding alcohol. It's difficult to criticise Carr's approach or stylein any way because his message comes across so clearly. After reading thisbook you will see alcohol and people who drink it in a very different way.Alcohol has become accepted and institutionalised by society and yet it isjust as addictive as heroin or tobacco.
I stopped drinking after reading this book and I feel elated by theknowledge that I can finally get on with the rest of my life - free fromthe alcohol prison, free from destroying my health and future for the sakeof a drug that does absolutley nothing for me. Highly recommended.
