Allen Carr - Good Sugar Bad Sugar

By John Dicey, Worldwide Managing Director & Senior Therapist, Allen Carrs Easyway

For a third of a century Allen Carr chain-smoked 60 to 100 cigarettes a day. With the exception of acupuncture, hed tried all the conventional methods to quit using willpower, nicotine products, hypnotherapy, substitutes and other gimmicks, all without success.

As he describes it: It was like being between the devil and the deep blue sea. I desperately wanted to quit but whenever I tried I was utterly miserable. No matter how long I survived without a cigarette, I never felt completely free. It was as if I had lost my best friend, my crutch, my character, my very personality. In those days I believed there were such types as addictive personalities or confirmed smokers, and because my family were all heavy smokers, I believed that there was something in our genes that meant we couldnt enjoy life or cope with stress without smoking.

Eventually he gave up even trying to quit believing: Once a smoker always a smoker. Then he discovered something which motivated him to try again.

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 Ive never had the slightest urge to smoke since.

It didnt take Allen long to realize that he had discovered a method of quitting that would enable any smoker to quit.

EASILY, IMMEDIATELY AND PERMANENTLY

WITHOUT USING WILLPOWER, AIDS, SUBSTITUTES OR GIMMICKS

WITHOUT SUFFERING DEPRESSION OR WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS

WITHOUT GAINING WEIGHT

After using his smoking friends and relatives as guinea pigs, he gave up his lucrative profession as a qualified accountant and set up a clinic to help other smokers to quit.

He called his method EASYWAY and so successful has it been that there are now Allen Carrs Easyway clinics in more than 150 cities in 50 countries worldwide. Best-selling books based on his method have been translated into more than 38 languages, with more being added each year.

It quickly became clear to Allen that his method could be applied to any drug. The method has helped millions of people to quit smoking, alcohol, and other drugs, as well as to stop gambling, overeating, and overspending. The method works by unravelling the misconceptions that make people believe that they get some benefit from the very thing thats harming them.

This book applies the same method to the issue of sugar addiction and, unlike other methods, it does not require willpower.

Too good to be true? All you have to do is read the book in its entirety, follow all the instructions and you cannot fail.

Im aware that the claims of the methods success might appear far-fetched or exaggerated, at times even outrageous. That was certainly my reaction when I first heard them. I was incredibly fortunate to attend Allen Carrs clinic in London in 1997, yet I did so under duress. I had agreed to go, at the request of my wife, on the understanding that when I walked out of the clinic and remained a smoker she would leave it at least 12 months before hassling me about stopping smoking again. No one was more surprised than I, or perhaps my wife, that Allen Carrs Easyway method set me free from my 80-a-day addiction.

I was so inspired that I hassled and harangued Allen Carr and Robin Hayley (then Managing Director and now Chairman of Allen Carrs Easyway) to let me get involved in their quest to cure the world of smoking. I was incredibly fortunate to have succeeded in convincing them to allow me to do so. Being trained by Allen Carr and Robin Hayley was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. To be able to count Allen as not only my coach and mentor, but also my friend was an amazing honour and privilege. Allen Carr and Robin Hayley trained me well I went on to personally treat more than 30,000 smokers at Allens original London clinic, and be part of the team that has taken Allens method from Berlin to Bogota, from New Zealand to New York, and from Sydney to Santiago.

Tasked by Allen to ensure that his legacy achieves its full potential weve taken Allen Carrs Easyway from videos to DVD, from clinics to apps, from computer games to audio books, to online programmes and beyond. Weve a long way to go, with so many addictions and issues to apply the method to, and this book plays a special part in our quest.

The honour of adding a light editorial touch in this book to update and develop Allens method has fallen to me. Editing Allens work enables us to apply the most up-to-date, cutting-edge version of his method to a whole host of issues.

A decade ago youd have been forgiven for thinking that sugar was the least of modern mans problems. Yet in 2016 the world is in the grip of what can only be described as an obesity and Type 2 diabetes epidemic. The fact that the food and drinks industry has used many of the same tactics as BIG TOBACCO in the 50s, 60s and 70s is ironic given that Allens method is synonymous with smoking. Once youre free from sugar and enjoying the results of that freedom infinitely better health, higher levels of energy, improved body shape and a happier, healthier lifestyle you might be inclined to take a look at that industry (and some of the medical and scientific establishment) and wonder how on earth they convinced us into believing that fat was the enemy of good health as opposed to sugar. That focus, away from sugar towards fat, is something that has cost millions of lives and filled the bloated coffers of the food, drink and pharmaceutical industries to bursting.