He has noticed how much time he has – drinking seemed to take up more hours than it should, either thinking about the experience or recovering from it.

Since Andy Garwood, who is also in his mid-50s, gave up drinking alcohol – he was a daily drinker, knocking back gin and tonic at home after a day running his construction business – he has changed his life. READ THIS BOOK, FOLLOW ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS AND LEARN TO ESCAPE THE MISERY OF DRINKING TOO MUCH ALCOHOL. We also know far more about the harm alcohol causes, he points out – younger people may recognise this, but so do increasing numbers of older people.

He used alcohol and cocaine to self-medicate his low self-esteem, lack of confidence, childhood trauma and then a stressful job in finance. As I read about other people’s experiences of sober socialising, holidaying and living, I gradually became confident I could do it, too.

The benefits that came with that 90-day break have led me to say I will never drink again, and that removing booze from my life has been the best thing I’ve ever done. She didn’t consider herself to be addicted to alcohol, but says: “I knew my relationship with alcohol wasn’t going in a good direction. I would have understood the reasons why I should stop, but I wouldn’t be able to relate to that frame of mind to be able to be free of it. Allen Carr's Easyway method has helped millions of people to quit smoking and other drugs, as well as to stop over-spending and over-eating.Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. She decided on a 90-day challenge, starting on a Monday in 2018, with a raging hangover, on the first day her children were back to school.

When it got to the end of the year, people assumed she would have a celebratory New Year’s Eve drink. I have amazed myself and become what I thought I was incapable of being: an occasional, moderate drinker. He has become a sober coach, helping others to give up alcohol, and has done triathlons and climbed mountains. Alcohol doesn’t have to affect your life in a dramatic way to become a problem; there are plenty of small, insidious ways in which it can get you. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).I could be pregnant, it could be for religious reasons, I could have a health condition, I could be an alcoholic – it’s quite invasive to ask. Last summer, I went to a wedding and ended up drunkenly haranguing my best friend of 24 years, detailing every resentment I had with her and every way in which she had ever pissed me off. Covering all the key points of the method, this step-by-step summary is perfect for use on its own or as companion volume to other Easyway titles.

Her back pain eased, simply because she wasn’t sitting on the sofa drinking several glasses of wine every night, which had become a reward for getting the kids to bed – something “very normal for lots of people, particularly women”. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. It appears as though Allen Carr is trying to use the same theory about smoking as he is with drinking ie we only drink because we are addicted to it and that we can't possibly enjoy anything about it which I personally feel is incorrect. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.Using examples from his own experience, one by one Allen demolishes all the myths that surround the subject of alcohol.