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'Easyway' has just announced a partnership with WHO:- Allen Carr's Easyway Partners With the World Health Organisation for a Global Year-long Campaign to Support More Than 100 Million People as They 'Commit to Quit' Smoking [https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/allen-carr-s-easyway-partners-with-the-world-health-organisation-for-a-global-year-long-campaign-to-support-more-than-100-million-people-as-they-commit-to-quit-smoking-806429693.html?fbclid=IwAR3Kb9gvi7NUroMGE7CEN9fdjT1xA52LAQOK9YsQklsBF5FhXzEmnym5QL0 Press release ]

==~~Its success rate~~==

==Methodology used==

It should be noted that an RCT exists [[ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/014556131709600701|Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Trial Using Best-Selling Smoking-Cessation Book]] that did not find that 'Easyway' was particularly, if at all effective

* It primarily tries to disassociate from the "addiction" terminology

* Relies a bit on self-diagnosis on why people smoke

* Specifically that smoking is often a mental habit

* Instead of focusing on negative health consequences tries to instill that there are often no benefits from smoking. <br> "Carr points out giving up cigarettes is essentially giving up nothing." <br> See also: https://www.wikihow.com/Quit-Smoking-by-Using-an-Allen-Carr-Book

* Additionally prepares quitters for withdrawal and copying mechanisms, setting quit dates, and the like.

== Its success rate==

It should be noted that an RCT exists [ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/014556131709600701 Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Trial Using Best-Selling Smoking-Cessation Book] that did not find that 'Easyway' was particularly, if at all effective

[https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/28/4/414.abstract Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking - A randomised clinical trial] < more positive findings

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Costs of Stop Smoking [https://www.allencarr.com/easyway-stop-smoking/#smokingprogramme Seminars are of the order £299], the small book ~£15, [https://www.allencarr.com/easyway-stop-smoking/how-to-quit/ Free Advice]

==Video==

==Video ==

[[Clive Bates]] on morning TV discusses the method.

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 'Easyway' has just announced a partnership with WHO:- Allen Carr's Easyway Partners With the World Health Organisation for a Global Year-long Campaign to Support More Than 100 Million People as They 'Commit to Quit' Smoking [https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/allen-carr-s-easyway-partners-with-the-world-health-organisation-for-a-global-year-long-campaign-to-support-more-than-100-million-people-as-they-commit-to-quit-smoking-806429693.html?fbclid=IwAR3Kb9gvi7NUroMGE7CEN9fdjT1xA52LAQOK9YsQklsBF5FhXzEmnym5QL0 Press release ]
-==Its success rate==
+==Methodology used==
-It should be noted that an RCT exists [[ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/014556131709600701|Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Trial Using Best-Selling Smoking-Cessation Book]] that did not find that 'Easyway' was particularly, if at all effective
+* It primarily tries to disassociate from the "addiction" terminology
+* Relies a bit on self-diagnosis on why people smoke
+* Specifically that smoking is often a mental habit
+* Instead of focusing on negative health consequences tries to instill that there are often no benefits from smoking.  <br>  "Carr points out giving up cigarettes is essentially giving up nothing."  <br>  See also: https://www.wikihow.com/Quit-Smoking-by-Using-an-Allen-Carr-Book
+* Additionally prepares quitters for withdrawal and copying mechanisms, setting quit dates, and the like.
+== Its success rate==
+It should be noted that an RCT exists [ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/014556131709600701 Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Trial Using Best-Selling Smoking-Cessation Book] that did not find that 'Easyway' was particularly, if at all effective
 [https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/28/4/414.abstract Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking - A randomised clinical trial] < more positive findings
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 Costs of Stop Smoking [https://www.allencarr.com/easyway-stop-smoking/#smokingprogramme Seminars are of the order £299], the small book ~£15, [https://www.allencarr.com/easyway-stop-smoking/how-to-quit/ Free Advice]
-==Video==
+==Video ==
 [[Clive Bates]] on morning TV discusses the method.