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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 ] | '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 ] | ||
== | ==Methodology used== | ||
It | * 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== | |||
Another | 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 | |||
A RCT exists that is altogether more [https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/tobaccocontrol/28/4/414.full.pdf positive] though it should be noted the study was funded by ACE (Allen Cars Easyway) as is mentioned here https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/sfts-nss011620.php, therefore, approach with caution. Indeed any vaping study that is funded by a vaping company is often fobbed off as 'propaganda', and dismissed no matter how solid the findings! | |||
Another partially funded by Allen Carr study [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4189200/ The effectiveness of the Allen Carr smoking cessation training in companies tested in a quasi-experimental design] | |||
The recent 2020 entry [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.14897 Comparison of Allen Carr's Easyway programme with a specialist behavioural and pharmacological smoking cessation support service: a randomized controlled trial] has conclusions 'There was no clear evidence of a difference in the efficacies of the Allen Carr's Easyway (ACE) and specialist smoking cessation support involving behavioural support and pharmacotherapy'. | |||
A much older appraisal of 'Easyway' exists, produced by Dr [[Jonathan Foulds]] is shown | A much older appraisal of 'Easyway' exists, produced by Dr [[Jonathan Foulds]] is shown | ||
"The bottom line is that anyone who claims they have an 80% or higher success rate in helping typical smokers to abstain long-term is kidding themselves or trying to fool you. Same goes for anyone claiming >50%, particularly if there is no pharmacological component to the intervention. This includes varenicline, e-cigs or anything else we currently have. Generally speaking, a 1-year quit rate above 10% is not bad, 20% is very good, and 25% is awesome." | |||
His brief 1996 evaluation of 'Easyway' is re-produced here | |||
: | [[File:AllencarrBriefEvaldec1207.pdf|thumb|center|Brief evidence review for 'easyway' ]] | ||
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 | ==Cost of the 'Easyway' program== | ||
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] | 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 == | ||
[[Clive Bates]] on morning TV discusses the method. | [[Clive Bates]] on morning TV discusses the method. | ||
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