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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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To attempt to provide an overall Summary by ourselves with such conflicting evidence is problematic, suffice to state that it works for significant numbers of people, but over-inflated success claims need treating with great caution.' Easyway' fits neatly into the preferred 'Cold-Turkey' category advanced by the anti-nicotine and anti-pharma. faction of Tobacco Control.

It is noted that neither NCSCT nor NHS Smokefree includes 'Easyway' as part of their package of approved methods for Quitting Smoking despite its existence for over two decades.

==Cost of the 'Easyway' program==

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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.

[[Category:Courses]]

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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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 To attempt to provide an overall Summary by ourselves with such conflicting evidence is problematic, suffice to state that it works for significant numbers of people, but over-inflated success claims need treating with great caution.' Easyway' fits neatly into the preferred 'Cold-Turkey' category advanced by the anti-nicotine and anti-pharma. faction of Tobacco Control.
+It is noted that neither NCSCT nor NHS Smokefree includes 'Easyway' as part of their package of approved methods for Quitting Smoking despite its existence for over two decades.
 ==Cost of the 'Easyway' program==
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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.
 {{#ev:youtube|qfy82CF4Wqw}}
+[[Category:Courses]]