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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 should be noted that an RCT exists | * 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. "Carr points out giving up cigarettes is essentially giving up nothing." 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 | [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] | 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. | [[Clive Bates]] on morning TV discusses the method. | ||