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by
Allen Carr
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December 28, 2021 - January 1, 2022
Introduction
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“I went overnight from a hundred cigarettes a day to zero, without any bad temper or sense of loss, void or depression. On the contrary, I actually enjoyed the process. I knew I was already a non-smoker even before I had extinguished my final cigarette and I’ve never had the slightest urge to smoke since.”
Allen Carr’s Easyway method
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To find it easy to quit, you must achieve a frame of mind whereby, whenever you think about any caffeinated product, you feel a sense of freedom and relief that you don’t consume it anymore. That’s the only way to become, and remain, truly free.
A question of choice?
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Do you consume caffeine out of choice?
The great caffeine con
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Who’s in charge?
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Mass caffeine consumption
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How do you take your caffeine?
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What do the “experts” say?
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More harm than good.
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Guidelines like “consume no more than two cups a day” reinforce the idea of “a little bit of what you fancy does you good”.
Tolerance
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Your body can survive consuming junk, but that in itself is not a reason for doing so.
Do you want to stop?
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Taste
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The fact is that your brain has taught your body to cope with the foul taste, so you can get the drug to which you have become addicted.
Smell
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The only reason it triggers the desire for a cup of coffee is because we’re addicted to caffeine.
Concentration
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Caffeine causes the aggravation; it doesn’t relieve it.
Caffeine withdrawal makes you feel restless and distracted. That’s not good for concentration.
Energy
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The caffeine industry works hard and spends a fortune promoting the idea that caffeine gives us energy.
If you really are tired, then your body is asking for sleep and rest, not caffeine.
Taking caffeine is like taking out a payday loan.
The reality is that caffeine addiction makes you permanently tired and exhausted. Take a look at anyone with a caffeine problem. They look tired, run down, and ready to drop. The irony is that the only thing that’s stopping them returning to their energetic, athletic, vivacious former self is the one thing they think they need to function – caffeine.
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Is caffeine sociable?
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In fact, the lie about coffee being sociable is laid bare merely by popping your head into any high street coffee bar. Most of the time, you’ll see people queuing for coffee or sitting drinking coffee in silence, not saying a word to each other.
The norm
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The assertion that a reason for consuming caffeine is that it’s the cultural norm would be amusing if it wasn’t so silly. At one time it was the cultural norm to perform rain dances and to burn people accused of witchcraft.
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We know instinctively that processing coffee beans or tea leaves, extracting an addictive ingredient and consuming it, is ludicrous.
Habit
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We get addicted to caffeine and then get into the routine, or habit, of consuming it at regular intervals.
Wake up and smell the coffee
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Special moments
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The smell of caffeine may well bring to mind pleasant associations, but not because the caffeine itself contributed to the experience.
The Little Monster
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The difficulty is not the physical withdrawal itself but the fact that it acts as a trigger for the real problem:
The Big Monster
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Withdrawal makes us feel physically lethargic while mentally restless. It is distracting and therefore impairs concentration. Each dose of caffeine seems to relieve these symptoms and we are therefore fooled into believing that we get a genuine pleasure or crutch from it.
All you have to do then is starve the little monster to death by stopping taking caffeine and you will be free.
Caffeine is a bitter, addictive drug which is a naturally occurring insecticide in certain plants. It attacks the central nervous system.
Caffeine is recognized as a highly addictive drug. It is a naturally occurring insecticide of the coffee bean – or more accurately, coffee seed.
Cutting down
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Cutting down or trying to control an addiction doesn’t work. It takes tremendous willpower and makes the drug appear more precious, just as dieting makes food appear more precious. You find yourself wishing your life away waiting for your next fix. In addition to that, you’re causing yourself to suffer withdrawal pangs.
Each time we experience that partial relief when we take caffeine, it reinforces the brainwashing and perpetuates the illusion that we get some kind of pleasure or benefit from it.
High or low
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