{"id":146718,"date":"2023-06-27T17:05:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/articles\/podcast-8\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T13:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:57:53","slug":"podcast-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/podcasts\/podcast-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast 8"},"content":{"rendered":"    <section  class=\"container container--large article-container\">\n            <div class=\"article \">\n            <div class=\"article__sidebar\">\n                <div class=\"sidebar-inner-section author\">\n                    <div class=\"author__avatar\">\n                                                                                                            <img decoding=\"async\"\n     src=\"https:\/\/allen-carr-live.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/16104103\/author-colleen-dwyer.jpeg\"\n             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                                                           <h6 class=\"author__title sidebar-content\">Global Head of Therapy<\/h6>\n                                    <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"sidebar-inner-section\">\n                        <span class=\"sidebar-sub-title\">Reviewed by<\/span>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/authors\/john-dicey-2\/\" title=\"John Dicey Bio\">\n                            <p class=\"sidebar-content\">John Dicey<\/p>\n                        <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n                                <div class=\"sidebar-inner-section\">\n                    <span class=\"sidebar-sub-title\">Published<\/span>\n                                        <p class=\"sidebar-content\">27 June 2023<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"sidebar-inner-section\">\n                    <span class=\"sidebar-sub-title\">Last Updated<\/span>\n        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Monique has personally experienced the power and effectiveness of the Allen Carr method, as she used it to improve her relationship with food and overcome her sugar cravings. Now she shares this method with others through the live seminars. <\/p>\n<p>And we have a special message today from Sir Richard Branson, who is a supporter of quitting smoking with Allen Carr&#8217;s Easyway. Sir Richard Branson has some motivational words for those who are thinking about quitting smoking, and we&#8217;re very thankful that he took the time to record them for us. <\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like your questions answered drop us a line on <a href=\"mailto:pod@allencarr.com\">pod@allencarr.com<\/a> with whatever you\u2019d like to say or any questions that you have.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion video-block__transcript\" data-accordion=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"video-block__transcript-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" data-ref=\"toggle\">[<span data-ref=\"switch-on\">view<\/span><span data-ref=\"switch-off\">hide<\/span> transcript]<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Welcome\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;to the Allen Carr&#8217;s Easy Way podcast,<br \/>\nthe program that will change your assumptions<br \/>\nand beliefs about addiction here.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t advocate<br \/>\nfor using willpower to quit because we&#8217;ve&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;discovered a much easier<br \/>\nand much more effective method.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>My name is Colleen Dwyer.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a senior facilitator to Allen Carr&#8217;s<br \/>\nEasy Way.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m the presenter of our online<br \/>\nvideo programs and your podcast host.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With me is John Dicey global<br \/>\nCEO of Allen Carr&#8217;s Easy Way and co-author&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;of the Allen Carr books and a senior<br \/>\nAllen Carr\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Easyway facilitator.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;John has over 25 years of experience<br \/>\nin helping millions of addicts&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>break free from their addictions.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And he has a lot of valuable knowledge<br \/>\nand wisdom to share.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;John and I are answering questions<br \/>\nfrom listeners such as Why&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;am I not able to quit with the book<br \/>\nsecond time around?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And why does the alcohol book not resonate<br \/>\nwith me like the smoking book did?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like your questions answered,<br \/>\ndrop us a line on POD at allencarr .&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;com with whatever you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to say<br \/>\nor any questions that you have.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also joining us today is Monique,<br \/>\nwho is an Allen Carr&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;facilitator for weight and sugar addiction<br \/>\nseminars.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Monique has personally experienced<br \/>\nthe power and effectiveness of the call&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;method as she used it,<br \/>\nto improve her relationship with food&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and completely<br \/>\nget rid of any sugar cravings.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now she shares this method with others<br \/>\nthrough the life seminars,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and we also have a special feature<br \/>\ntoday from Sir Richard Branson,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;who is a supporter of quitting<br \/>\nsmoking with Allen Carr&#8217;s easy way.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sir Richard<br \/>\nBranson has some motivational words&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;for those<br \/>\nwho are thinking about quitting smoking,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and we&#8217;re very thankful that he took<br \/>\nthe time to record them for us.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re happy to answer any questions<br \/>\nthat you have about any addiction.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And even if we don&#8217;t actually feature<br \/>\nyour question in a future episode&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;of the podcast, we will personally reply<br \/>\nto every single question&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;we receive, providing you<br \/>\nwith detailed advice and guidance.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So don&#8217;t forget,<br \/>\nget in touch on pods at Cars.com and do&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;also check out Allen Carr dot com and see<br \/>\nthe host of Addictions and issues.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Allen Carr&#8217;s easy<br \/>\nway has now been applied to.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So sit back, relax and open your mind<br \/>\nto a new way of understanding addiction.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the Allen Carr&#8217;s Easy<br \/>\nWay podcast just addictive addiction.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>We want to hear your success stories\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and provide advice\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>to you.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>This advice is free.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;John will answer every question<br \/>\nwe receive with no exception.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Take this now apart at Allen Carr dot com.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Right.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we&#8217;re back again<br \/>\nfor addiction Central on the new podcast.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Welcome John.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got three questions<br \/>\nthrough from the listeners&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;which we&#8217;re going to go through<br \/>\nand the first one is from Linda.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Basically, Linda says she&#8217;s 51 years old.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>She quitted smoking by reading the book.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She didn&#8217;t say what title,<br \/>\nbut she said it was in 2000 and she quit&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>for 17 years successfully and happily.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But then she made a mistake of thinking<br \/>\nthat one wouldn&#8217;t hurt.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She picked up a cigarette<br \/>\nand we all know what follows from there.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She kind of linked it to the fact<br \/>\nthat her parents both died.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But then since then,<br \/>\nshe&#8217;s reread the book twice and she says&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s the new version from 2014,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>which isn&#8217;t the new version.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But she&#8217;s also attended about three online<br \/>\nseminars&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and one in person seminar in Perth,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;but she hasn&#8217;t kept it<br \/>\nand she says she&#8217;s struggling&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;to get what she got from it<br \/>\nthe first time,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;even though she knows the method<br \/>\nand she believes in the method,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;but she&#8217;s just not getting back<br \/>\nto where she was and she&#8217;s on top of that.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s like really struggling financially.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s got a lot pressure<br \/>\non her risks of losing some assets&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and she needs to get<br \/>\na budget under control.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her health has been deteriorating<br \/>\nand now she&#8217;s getting like warnings&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>from the doctors that\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>she&#8217;s got mild COPD.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it will get worse if she doesn&#8217;t,<br \/>\nyou know, address the issue.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s taking painkillers<br \/>\nand anti-depressants and,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you know, she&#8217;s got the cancer scares<br \/>\nand other health issues.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So she&#8217;s she sounds pretty desperate<br \/>\nand pretty frustrated.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s taking<br \/>\nor she&#8217;s reading the book again, but she&#8217;s&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;wearing patches and she knows that<br \/>\nthat goes contrary to what Alan says.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But yeah,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;she says she&#8217;s desperate<br \/>\nand she just doesn&#8217;t know&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>why she&#8217;s finding it difficult this time.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I know that you have already replied<br \/>\nto Linda, and I read the response,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;which is very detailed,<br \/>\nand I hope that she&#8217;s, you know,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>getting some success with it now.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But what would you say to Linda?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yes, interestingly,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;because I think witch hunters<br \/>\naren&#8217;t people as quickly as we can.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And in future, those answers we think<br \/>\nwill be useful to the listeners. So&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>it is good\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;when we do sort of provide<br \/>\nadvice and guidance&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>is really sort of\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>well rounded so\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that people do<br \/>\nget quite a lot of advice back.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they follow it, normally they&#8217;re fine<br \/>\nand that&#8217;s the&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>really important thing about it.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So sort of do two days really.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s so many issues there for Linda<br \/>\nwas on there in terms of&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the better work for her in the past,<br \/>\nwhich is brilliant.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So she&#8217;s got that reassurance that it does<br \/>\nwork,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;hasn&#8217;t worked for,<br \/>\nyou know, this time around.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>There can be a few reasons for that.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I think quite often\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;when the method works for somebody<br \/>\nand they make a mistake,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;what they do is they try to recapture<br \/>\nthe feeling they had before&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>when when the method worked\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and if if when they finished a book<br \/>\nor a seminar or whatever else,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;if they don&#8217;t feel exactly the same way<br \/>\nas they remember feeling before,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>they automatically assumed that it works.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And that that leads to failure is sort of<br \/>\na just becomes a&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>self-fulfilling prophecy, so to speak.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So I think\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>really important thing is\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>try not to recapture\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>the feeling you had before.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So how do you feel at the end,<br \/>\nwhether you read the book again&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;or whether you watch the online<br \/>\nvideo program or attend the Life seminar&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>or in person, how do you feel\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;once you&#8217;ve completed<br \/>\nthat is right for you&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;here and now and it&#8217;s<br \/>\nmost likely going to be completed.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it&#8217;s how you remember feeling before,<br \/>\nyou might feel less confident&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;or you might feel more confident,<br \/>\nyou might feel&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;a bit nervous<br \/>\nabout it, but apprehensive about it.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all very natural\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and it&#8217;ll be absolutely fine<br \/>\nas long as you don&#8217;t let the fact&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that you don&#8217;t feel the same as you did<br \/>\nbefore for both of you.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So anybody it becomes becomes a problem.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always compare<br \/>\nthis sort of couple of examples really.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I remember the first time\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I saw my favourite band play\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and it was just magical.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was just, you know,<br \/>\nI really wanted to save a life.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I really wanted to\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>see how they were\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and it blew my socks off.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It was just the most amazing experience.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But then I went to see them again.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I loved every minute of it.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It was really brilliant.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t the same as the first time,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and if I let that bother me,<br \/>\nmaybe I would have enjoyed it as much.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But each experience,<br \/>\nI saw them quite a few times.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Each experience was brilliant,<br \/>\nbut not the same as the first time.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I felt like if that makes sense. So.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s really important.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>You feel different than before\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and you&#8217;ll be familiar<br \/>\nwith what you read or or hear.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And as long as you go through\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that sort of familiar process<br \/>\nin a positive way, thinking,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>okay, I understand that.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I understand Now I accept that<br \/>\nrather than I knew this last time.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But if that I knew this last time.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But that gets in the way of the sort<br \/>\nof the cognitive process.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s quite,<br \/>\nquite an important point.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How we feel once you&#8217;ve completed<br \/>\nthe program this time is fine for you.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>This at this moment.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry, don&#8217;t worry about that.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Couple of things she mentioned was\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>also possibly\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;bothering her<br \/>\nin terms of achieving success&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>to the breathing, sort of,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you know, condolences again, Linda,<br \/>\nif you feel bereavement.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But I think\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>bereavement wouldn&#8217;t normally cause\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;someone to go back to smoking<br \/>\nwho uses this method.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s understandable<br \/>\nthat sometimes it does.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I think if people understand<br \/>\nwhen you have bad news or&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>tragedy\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;or even the sort of minor<br \/>\nor trivial stress,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;it creates a really unpleasant feeling,<br \/>\nlike an anxious, uptight, tense feeling.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s exactly the same feeling as\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;smoking used to get when I used to smoke<br \/>\nwhen a cigarette could have one.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it&#8217;s<br \/>\nalmost like an echo from the past.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And if you don&#8217;t careful, you kind of<br \/>\nyou accept that for that feeling.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>People sort of think, well,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you know, just like fancying<br \/>\na cigarette out of the blue&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;or stressed and everything was going<br \/>\nwrong in life or whatever.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just a feeling of stress.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all it is in the cigarette.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Never took that feeling away.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And the way they deal with\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;stress is just to realise<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s what it is and take it off really.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sunny when you think that that cigarette<br \/>\nmight be a solution to that, it becomes&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>becomes an issue.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And, and there&#8217;s more on that now<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s quite a detail with Linda&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>explaining that further.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the other factor<br \/>\nwhich is quite similar is&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>the ill health Linda was experiencing.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s got lots of stuff going on,<br \/>\nyou know, real stress involved in that.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And people try to use health issues as a\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>as a motivated to quit to help succeed.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But it actually is counterproductive\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>when you focus on something,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you know, really negative or scary<br \/>\nor whatever.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first thing a smoker does<br \/>\nwhen they experience&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>that is have a cigarette.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And it it kind of becomes\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>it just becomes top of your mind.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather than thinking of freedom,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re on your way, you&#8217;re escaping,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you become ensconced<br \/>\nin this sort of kind of negative place,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;just burdened by, you know,<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s going to happen if you don&#8217;t quit.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it&#8217;s really important to treat,<br \/>\nyou know, release&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;from those concerns as far as you can<br \/>\nbe, release most concerns.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And as a bonus,<br \/>\nwhen you when you get free, I think this&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s really important. And\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>when you do\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>that, it&#8217;s almost as if it lifts the fog.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can actually start<br \/>\nfocusing on the methods and&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and letting the letting the method\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and the method work.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s about it.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s really something out there Now.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I think you covered the points. It&#8217;s\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>you know, it is terribly\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>sad when things go wrong in life and\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and we lose people we love and\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;we face disappointments<br \/>\nand all the rest of it.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I have to say, since I quit smoking<br \/>\nwithout a cause easy way,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;every that I always<br \/>\nno matter how bad things have gotten,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I&#8217;ve I&#8217;ve at least<br \/>\nI&#8217;m free to know.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like, at least I don&#8217;t smoke so that<br \/>\nit will never, ever be that bad again.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I&#8217;m not trivialising<br \/>\nyou know what what people go through and&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and certainly for for<br \/>\ndays he&#8217;s had a really rough time of it.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But you&#8217;ve got one positive<br \/>\nwhen you quit smoking this time around&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and that&#8217;s<br \/>\nthe you&#8217;ve got your freedom back.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s something to treasure and can<br \/>\nalways give you a little bit of a lift.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But and the other thing I was thinking<br \/>\nactually reading Linda&#8217;s email was that,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you know, like, I don&#8217;t I&#8217;m<br \/>\nnot saying that Linda did this, but I know&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that I might be a bit prone to it, that<br \/>\nI misremembered how I felt at the seminar.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I think we talked about this in a previous\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;podcast that I came to my seminar<br \/>\nwith one of my brothers&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and my best friend and\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;when I<br \/>\nwhen I after seven, after I quit smoking&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and I was really enthused about it all<br \/>\nand I wanted to&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;join the organisation, my best friend and<br \/>\nmy brother were laughing at me and I was.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And I said, Why are you laughing?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And they said, Because of how you felt<br \/>\nwhen you left the seminar.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And I just I didn&#8217;t get it.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought, I don&#8217;t understand.<br \/>\nI was really happy.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t wait to kind of get out there<br \/>\nand start, you know, enjoy my freedom.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And they, they laughed.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>They said, No, you were not like that.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>You were like, What was that all about?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, like you weren&#8217;t<br \/>\nyou weren&#8217;t convinced.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>You weren&#8217;t like,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>like, really happy about it.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But but I was remembering it in that way<br \/>\nbecause&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I later on down the line,<br \/>\nI knew the outcome.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew that<br \/>\nit was everything that was promised to be.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it was kind of like I was,<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I was just misremembering it.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So when you&#8217;re like in<br \/>\nin the case of someone who&#8217;s quit&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and then returned to smoking for<br \/>\nwhatever reason,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and then they reread the book<br \/>\nor attend a seminar, again,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;maybe their expectation<br \/>\nis like unrealistic.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying that people aren&#8217;t happy.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course people are happier when they<br \/>\nwhen they quit, but at the point of you&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;realising that you&#8217;ve quit<br \/>\nand you&#8217;ve done it&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and you&#8217;ve got your moment of revelation,<br \/>\nI think that was it.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was remembering my moment of revelation<br \/>\nas happening&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;immediately<br \/>\nas I put out my final cigarette.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But actually my moment of revelation<br \/>\nprobably came a few days after I quit.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously I didn&#8217;t smoke since<br \/>\nhaving my final cigarette, but&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;yeah, some just maybe bear that in mind<br \/>\nand just take it as it comes.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because when you first read<br \/>\nthat book, Linda,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you had no expectation<br \/>\nof how you were meant to fail.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>You just took it as it came.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>You were open minded about it.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I think you need to drop that again<br \/>\nthis time around.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just have no particular fixed view of<br \/>\nI have to feel this way&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>in order for it to to have worked.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I also just<br \/>\none more thing as well on that&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and you alluded to this earlier,<br \/>\nwhich was Linda.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Linda thought she was reading the new book\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Doable 2014.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now a very old book fact.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So the most up to date\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;cutting edge version of the method<br \/>\nin writing&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>is an easy way to quit\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>smoking, rather easy way to quit smoking.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And that&#8217;s that&#8217;s really quite important<br \/>\nbecause it has something&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>like 25 years of\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>upgraded information, examples, anecdotes.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It touches on stuff<br \/>\nthat wasn&#8217;t even an issue&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;when the original book was published<br \/>\nand the subsequent updates were published.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Even. And\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s crazy.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We, you know, we offer people advice on<br \/>\nhow to succeed using the book.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They already have even said<br \/>\nbooks 30 years old.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very confident<br \/>\nthat this should work.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But why?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Why miss out on\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>the best possible treatment you could get\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>in the new version of the book?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just not worth the risk.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cost less<br \/>\nthan a couple of packs of cigarettes.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So this isn&#8217;t by any means a commercial<br \/>\nfor the new upgrade of the book,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>but just it&#8217;s really important.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>You know, we did it for a reason.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the reason was<br \/>\nit was time to include all kinds of stuff&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that really just enriches<br \/>\nthe method even more.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s well worth well worth it.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Assignment cost easy way to quit smoking.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I think there&#8217;s a subtitles. Quit smoking.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Course these quit smoking.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The method upgraded for the 2020s.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Think that&#8217;s the F?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. On there as well. So nice. Great.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Fabulous, Great stuff.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And good luck, Linda.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not that you need luck,<br \/>\nbut all the best with it.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So the next\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>one that we have is about vaping.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s from Ryan\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>in London.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where was Linda from?<br \/>\nShe was from Australia.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So Ryan says I&#8217;ve quitted smoking<br \/>\nby vaping and now I want to quit vaping&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and can&#8217;t seem to manage it.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels like the fact that it doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\nstink like smoking does&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and it isn&#8217;t as inconvenient<br \/>\nlike smoking was&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;because I can take sneaky puffs<br \/>\nwherever I want to, whenever I want that&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;because it doesn&#8217;t have those negatives,<br \/>\nit might make it harder to quit.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And I loved your reply to this one, John.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to try and remember what it was.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>No, but notice I think\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>this has come up quite often.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just Ryan.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A couple of people inquire<br \/>\nalong these lines&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and the the\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the thinking they have<br \/>\nis that because it doesn&#8217;t stink anymore&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;or because it&#8217;s not inconvenient anymore,<br \/>\nthey can do it pretty much&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>wherever they want.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s harder to quit<br \/>\nas if the fact it stank&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and was inconvenient<br \/>\never helped anyone quit.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It never helped me quit.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s really just kind of good looking\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and no way around is,<br \/>\nI think, what these become.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re like sort of.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>We try and work out why we failed to quit.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And if we come up with an answer,<br \/>\nit sort of seems to make sense.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t really matter<br \/>\nwhether it&#8217;s right or wrong,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>but it seems to make sense\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that what we say, I think what Ryan&#8217;s done<br \/>\nthere is is really just assumed.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, it&#8217;s because it doesn&#8217;t stink<br \/>\nand it doesn&#8217;t I can do whatever I want&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and I think\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>once you accept that\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;never helped anyone<br \/>\nquit smoking and never helped anyone&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>quit fighting.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not not having to do with the smell<br \/>\nanymore, not having the control&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>in the slavery.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is a brilliant bonuses to enjoy<br \/>\nonce you once you quit?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re not that motivation for\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>for quitting successfully\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>so it&#8217;s turning around that way.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean and this is quite interesting<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t it?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because you know, you know,<br \/>\nvaping doesn&#8217;t stink.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Vapers don&#8217;t tend to stink.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I mean, when they&#8217;re doing it, it does.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think quite<br \/>\na lot of people think it&#8217;s a nice smell.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think if they&#8217;re vaping, it, if anyone<br \/>\naround them, it&#8217;s normally pretty foul.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s kind of sickly candy gross sort of&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>smell.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And you know,<br \/>\nI used to smoke like a chimney and&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not complaining about the smell.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t mind the smell of cigarette smoke,<br \/>\nfor example, for some reasons,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;like smoke seems like,<br \/>\nyou know, particularly&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>unpleasant.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why, but I think part of it&#8217;s<br \/>\nbecause it&#8217;s this fight for, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s vapor there and it&#8217;s got sort of\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;whether it&#8217;s cold candy or candyfloss<br \/>\nflavor or caramel flavor,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;it&#8217;s kind of like this weird stuff<br \/>\nbeing puffed out by someone.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And if you walk,<br \/>\nif you walking through town and you get&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;caught in a plume of it, it&#8217;s like hold<br \/>\nyour breath before you get out.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just because it&#8217;s<br \/>\njust because it&#8217;s so, so GROSS.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I think it&#8217;s the synthetic nature<br \/>\nof the smell and it&#8217;s just really off.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But no doubt, I don&#8217;t think\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>somebody vapes\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;smells in the same way as a smoker did,<br \/>\nthinking like an absolute ashtray,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Never quit me from smoking, if that&#8217;s why<br \/>\nso else smelt most of the time.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it&#8217;s a bit of a red herring<br \/>\nreally, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And the same goes for the convenience.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, the fact that people can like<br \/>\npretty much wherever&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and whenever I want actually,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;just because that can seem more and more<br \/>\nand more of the drug&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and more and more almost become\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>hooked in constantly vaping,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>which is\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>pretty scary.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And this sort of still not much evidence<br \/>\nof the harms of vaping.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;ll be years before that becomes\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>available and not\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;when the first studies do<br \/>\ncome out about the harms caused by vaping.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be based on, you know,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;those the original e-cigarettes<br \/>\nthat look a bit like cigarettes,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>those original stuff.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ll be based on that now<br \/>\nand they those products bear&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the resemblance<br \/>\nto what&#8217;s going on at the moment where&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;whether you use a tank,<br \/>\nwhere you regulate the amount&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;of nicotine strengthened<br \/>\nnicotine is huge things, kind of just&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;plumes of smoke coming out<br \/>\nor whether it&#8217;s disposables&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;or any of the sort of equivalent<br \/>\nof 45 cigarettes&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>worth of nicotine in a disposable.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The kids are buying these for five quid<br \/>\na time or six or $7 a time.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And and going through them in a dying.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And this is a not correct situation to be.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So I think that&#8217;s a sort of\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>gave the advice to Ryan and then\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>really just provided this kind of\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>step by step\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>advice for how he can\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>see reading the book, I think.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t he?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yes, he was reading the book on smoking.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But to get him off vaping. Right,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>to to read the book again.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I think the book commission member<br \/>\ncould easily quit smoking&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;but that that does include vaping<br \/>\nand other nicotine&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>products.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So is really the best, best book<br \/>\nfor somebody who smokes&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and vapes<br \/>\nor recently quitted smoking and advice.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now he&#8217;s going to quit vaping,<br \/>\nwhich is really best for somebody&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;who hasn&#8217;t smoked for a long time and<br \/>\nwho is or has never smoked and only vapes.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And there are more and more<br \/>\nthose people around.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember when I was a smoker<br \/>\nand I really used to dream&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish they would come up with a<br \/>\na clean cigarette, you know, like, well,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I suppose like a vapor it,<br \/>\nbut yeah, basically something that didn&#8217;t&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>wasn&#8217;t offensive and it wasn&#8217;t anti-social\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and it didn&#8217;t like cost the earth<br \/>\nand it wasn&#8217;t that bad for your health.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And, and what I recognised\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;when I quit with Alan Carr&#8217;s<br \/>\neasy way is the, I wouldn&#8217;t&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;care if they came out with a cigarette<br \/>\nthat legitimately&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;was not bad for your health and was free<br \/>\nand it wasn&#8217;t anti-social.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still got no interest,<br \/>\nyou know, like because if you take away&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;all the negatives, what you&#8217;re left with,<br \/>\nlike it&#8217;s still a pointless activity.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;like wearing<br \/>\ntight shoes just to take them off.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s a bit of a it&#8217;s<br \/>\na it&#8217;s a nonsense really.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it doesn&#8217;t matter if there&#8217;s a lot<br \/>\nof negatives to it or no negatives to it.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The point we&#8217;re making<br \/>\nis that there&#8217;s no there&#8217;s no plus side.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think went further with Ryan as well,<br \/>\nwhich is to sort of&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>suggest that\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>he does some sort of\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>mindful vaping of what you call it,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;but just, you know, stand<br \/>\nin front of the mirror and and fight.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Look at yourself, look into your eyes,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>do it for 5 minutes and just fight.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter that you can do it\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;locked away in a low<br \/>\nor we&#8217;ve taken a sneaky path on a desk&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;at the office or even,<br \/>\nyou know, on a train or bus or whatever.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look, look at what you&#8217;re doing<br \/>\nand understand.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>This is a thing that has\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>had you\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>have down\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>to that level of this sort of weird\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;sneaking a puff here and sneaking<br \/>\na puff there and getting away with it.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But if you actually look at it,<br \/>\nconfront yourself with what it is&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you&#8217;re doing,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll see how just very weird is.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And if the controlled to the slavery,<br \/>\nwhich is the most brilliant thing,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;once you are released from that,<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s the most brilliant thing about it.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s also most fully one of the most<br \/>\ninsidious things about about doing it.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But again, rather than use<br \/>\nthat as a motivating factor&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that you control<br \/>\nthe slave way is enjoying it&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;fully when you&#8217;re when you&#8217;re free,<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s really, really important. So&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>goodness gracious.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And finally,<br \/>\nwe have an email in from Spencer&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;who said, I read articles<br \/>\nhow to quit smoking and it worked wonders.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve been smoke free for several years\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and I thought I should do<br \/>\nthe same method for my drinking.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve read the book several times,<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;s not clicking like smoking book.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>What am I doing wrong?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s kind of similar to<br \/>\nsome of the points that Linda was saying.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You won&#8217;t want to repeat all of that<br \/>\nin one go&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;expecting to feel the same way as she did<br \/>\nbefore or whatever, I think.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But I think there&#8217;s just a case of\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;of understanding that there<br \/>\nthere is a difference.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>There is a different process.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the same method,<br \/>\nbut you&#8217;re going through&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>something very different than you were\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>when you were quitting smoking.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And try not to relate those\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>those two experiences.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I think it was a really short<br \/>\nquestion.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Spencer<br \/>\ncrossed with a really long sketch for me.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think also I think it&#8217;s the importance<br \/>\nof reaching out for advice&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;from us direct as well, so that<br \/>\nwhich is exactly what expense has done.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I think it was anyone out there having any\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;conflict and experience with the easy way<br \/>\nor it doesn&#8217;t seem to be working for them&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;or work for them<br \/>\nonce it is working for them again.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it really just just takes<br \/>\nminimal effort to get in touch with us.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And we do put a lot of effort<br \/>\ninto providing them the free, free&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;of charge advice, which is what it would<br \/>\nhave done with Spencer. But&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>we&#8217;ve touched twice\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;in a previous episode as well,<br \/>\nwhich is that&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the difference between the alcohol method<br \/>\nand the smoking method,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;some people think,<br \/>\nOh well, they just changed the words&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;smoking, nicotine, alcohol<br \/>\nand drinking or whatever.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it just really isn&#8217;t as simple<br \/>\nas much,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you know, very different addiction<br \/>\nin many,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>many different ways.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m sure that\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Spencer,<br \/>\nif he&#8217;s if he&#8217;s read the book&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>he&#8217;s been through the method once.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I think I always say<br \/>\nmy number one recommendation to anybody is&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>to attend a life seminar and think in this\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>this is what I situation is where\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I thoroughly recommend it because\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;there are<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s there&#8217;s things that facilitators&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;facilitate doing throughout the<br \/>\nseminar, which will just set&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Spencer&#8217;s mind at rest\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>that will, you know,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you can ask questions,<br \/>\nyou can check your understanding of things&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and be reassured<br \/>\nby the facilitator facilitator&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>in the room.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s where I go.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Why mess around with it?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why not just go straight,<br \/>\ngo straight for the life seminar&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>If someone can&#8217;t afford that?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I say,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure whether Spencer did end up&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;attending a large seminar, but, you know,<br \/>\neven if you&#8217;ve read the book is quite&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>full as it was, he should be fine.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>You know, you should. You should go free.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Yeah.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really, I suppose what you were saying\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;before as well is that<br \/>\nyou can&#8217;t be surprised by something twice.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I remember when I did my smoking<br \/>\nseminar, actually,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;not that long afterwards<br \/>\nI did the alcohol seminar and.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But my\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;feeling going into the alcohol<br \/>\nseminar was quite different to my feeling&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;as I entered the smoking seminar,<br \/>\nbecause when I was going to my smoking&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;seminar, I was very dubious,<br \/>\nI was very unsure.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know what to expect,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know what the light relaxation<br \/>\nwas going to be like.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know, you know,<br \/>\nif I was meant to talk.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And, you know, I didn&#8217;t.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I was very uncertain.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And then it works and I was thrilled.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And then when I went along to my\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>alcohol seminar,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was much more<br \/>\nI sort of knew the process.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I knew the program in a sense.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s not exactly the same,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;but I knew I knew the format at least,<br \/>\nand the general psychology.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And at the end of the alcohol seminar,<br \/>\nI, you know, I, it was easy.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It was easy, It was wonderful.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I wasn&#8217;t surprised that it was easy,<br \/>\nyou know.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I wasn&#8217;t quite, you know, I didn&#8217;t have<br \/>\nYeah, it just wasn&#8217;t quite as&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>taken aback by.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I was just like, oh okay, cool.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s too much emphasis.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think, sometimes on how you feel<br \/>\nat the end of the seminar&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;or reading the book, because people think<br \/>\nthat maybe your feeling is the indicator&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;of whether or not it&#8217;s people are looking<br \/>\nfor confirmation that it&#8217;s, that it&#8217;s&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that it&#8217;s happened,<br \/>\nthe magic has happened or whatever.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But actually just you as an individual<br \/>\nmaking your decision, that&#8217;s&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>when it&#8217;s happened.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I love helping people<br \/>\nin social meeting.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got sort of several social media groups<br \/>\nfor stopping smoking, slash vaping,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>alcohol, sugar addiction,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>whites, emotional eating.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And we just started one for cannabis.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somebody asked how would you smoke group<br \/>\nfor the kind of business&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>there isn&#8217;t, but there is now.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s up and running now as well.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Just as a portal where people can can join\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and get advice from other members,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;guidance from other members<br \/>\nand and from ourselves&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and I think\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m amazed.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really important to me<br \/>\nto get an insight from that because, well,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;it&#8217;s helping people,<br \/>\nyou know, learn all sorts of stuff.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s people quite often\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>don&#8217;t understand certain things.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So they&#8217;ve got an online call book and<br \/>\nthey say this just isn&#8217;t going to work.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m reading, I&#8217;m reading it<br \/>\nand I&#8217;m puffing away.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay, how is this is this is quit<br \/>\nworking of sort&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;of what it does say that it does carry<br \/>\non smoking all the way through to the end.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And so I think\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>the book can be a bit repetitive at times,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and that is quite deliberate<br \/>\nbecause people do&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;clearly do need to to be reminded<br \/>\nthat, you know, just carry on.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Smoking<br \/>\nis not what you&#8217;re already smoking.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And at the end<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ll be ready to have a final cigarette&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and then that&#8217;s when you start<br \/>\nnow your final cigarette.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So those sort of insights<br \/>\nare really interesting,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;but it&#8217;s amazing how much they they<br \/>\nthey come up the same way.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The alcohol book.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>People say, you know, to quit working.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a little difficult,<br \/>\nbut I have a horse.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t finished the book yet,<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;s one of those weird&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>sort of situations.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the groups<br \/>\nthe groups are really helpful.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I think people do.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have got free with a method,<br \/>\nenjoy it,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;give it encouragement to people<br \/>\nwho are struggling.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>They see it as a way of\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>paying back and it is lovely. So.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So people celebrate their freedom<br \/>\ntogether.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People get encouraged<br \/>\nif they&#8217;re struggling.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And, you know, we were repeatedly\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;offering the free advice,<br \/>\nyou know, from the group&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and and touching\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>responding to those people who need help\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;by suggesting<br \/>\nhe can easily get in touch with us.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Free advice.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s much easier.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it was sort of ten or 15 years ago<br \/>\nwith so much support&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and advice<br \/>\navailable to anybody from anywhere really&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>who needs advice.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And that is interesting<br \/>\nbecause I think Facebook even&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>automatically translate languages.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got, you know, all kinds of languages<br \/>\nrepresented in the Facebook&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>groups each, and they can interact\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;perfectly<br \/>\nwell as as people do in an English.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s wonderful but but it&#8217;s good<br \/>\nhopefully is fine.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I say whether you read the book again<br \/>\nor attended&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>a seminar, I&#8217;m sure we would be wonderful.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much, John.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for for this episode.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see you next time.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And and you know, hopefully<br \/>\npeople will send in some more questions&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and things that we can address<br \/>\nthat will be useful for everyone.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, we have we had great success<br \/>\nthis time with people saying&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;where they were from,<br \/>\nthat that was a pretty good idea.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But forget to tell us where you&#8217;re from.<br \/>\nJust it&#8217;s nice to know.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s a bit of interest to.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So when we were asking the question\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and like, say keep those questions\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;coming in and please, what do we want<br \/>\npeople to do on the down load.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe and write the podcast as well.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s very, that&#8217;s very important<br \/>\nfor getting the word out out there&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>that this is sort of\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>podcast.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It hopes to help advise people\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;who want to otherwise<br \/>\nmake it to make it free.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Wonderful.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for having me as a wrap since.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Just additions a dig since\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>we want to hear your success story\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and provide advice is pretty darn\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;sure that you want to use<br \/>\nthis advice is free&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;so will answer every question<br \/>\nwe receive with no exception.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Take this now from Alan Carr dot com.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time for our special feature.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Our guests.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Richard Branson is a long time<br \/>\nadvocate of the easy way method.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You might know him<br \/>\nas the founder of Virgin Atlantic&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and he also controls<br \/>\nmore than 400 companies in various fields.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve worked with Virgin Atlantic<br \/>\nfor many years, helping their employees&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;to quit smoking, and more recently<br \/>\nsince 2019,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;we&#8217;ve been working with Virgin Pulse,<br \/>\nwhich is the health and wellbeing platform&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;in the workplace, to deliver all<br \/>\nquit smoking services to their clients.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Employees.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So get ready to be inspired<br \/>\nby one of the most successful&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>entrepreneurs of all time.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alan Carr has helped thousands of people<br \/>\nto quit smoking&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>his method is absolutely unique.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Removing your dependence on<br \/>\ncigarettes while you smoke.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m pleased to say\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that his work for many of my friends<br \/>\nand my staff,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I quitted smoking a number of years ago<br \/>\nand certainly agree with Alan&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that life is much fuller<br \/>\nand much more fun without cigarettes.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Good luck.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And now we have the pleasure<br \/>\nof talking with Monique,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;who is one of our very experienced<br \/>\nand successful weight and sugar&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>addiction facilitators.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s here to share her insights<br \/>\non how to break free&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;from the chains of sugar addiction<br \/>\nand to live a healthier life.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the show, Monique. Hi.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>My name is Monique\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and I&#8217;m a senior facilitator for the weight<br \/>\nloss and sugar addiction seminars.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ban Sugar<br \/>\nhas kind of always been in my life&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>from the start, but I&#8217;d say, you know,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>mentally and\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;physically, I thought it helps me<br \/>\nfeel better.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>You know, comforted.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But in reality, it negatively impacted<br \/>\non my moods how I dealt with stress.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It affected my anxiety levels as well.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And and just how, you know, generally<br \/>\nhow I just dealt with life&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>as it as it came at me.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So I didn&#8217;t sleep very well.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I often stayed up really late\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;into the night<br \/>\nduring college and university time.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And that wasn&#8217;t because I was going out<br \/>\nlots or anything.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just, you know,<br \/>\nI just didn&#8217;t sleep very well.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But physically, my skin,<br \/>\nyou know, was affected.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had achy joints, which is<br \/>\nprobably unusual for somebody so young.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I struggled with bouts of kind of IBS<br \/>\nlike type flare up flare ups.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, you know, I fell ill numerous times<br \/>\nthroughout the year as well.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I usually felt bloated<br \/>\nand I just thought that was normal.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, I really struggled with flip<br \/>\nflopping with my weight.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, you know, I put on lots of weight<br \/>\nand then I&#8217;d lose lots of it as well.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And this often happens for for many years\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I was probably about 13 stone.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I was like a UK size 14 or so,<br \/>\nor at least&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I tried to fit into a UK size 14.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But yeah, I&#8217;d say that was my worst,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;but often kind of really go up and down,<br \/>\nfluctuate with my weight.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just didn&#8217;t have<br \/>\na very good relationship with my eating.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I often equated,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you know, weight loss<br \/>\nwith very little basically.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So I just continued eating junk.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I just thought, Oh,<br \/>\nI just had to eat less of it.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I&#8217;d go for long periods of<br \/>\nrestricting myself when it came to eating.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So basically starving myself and and not<br \/>\ngetting very many good foods into my body.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then, of course, there&#8217;s only so long<br \/>\nyou go on doing that.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So I did eventually fall off\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and go right back into eating<br \/>\nlots of brown sugar,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;so refined sugars, processed<br \/>\nstarchy carbs, junk food, basically.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And when would you say your relationship<br \/>\nwith food became distorted?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say college, actually.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Or coming out of secondary school\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>because I&#8217;d\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;put on a significant amount<br \/>\nin a way, over a over a summer.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I think it was I&#8217;d, you know,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;probably wasn&#8217;t very active,<br \/>\nbut also eating lots and lots of junk.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;d put on a lot of lot of weight.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And college was kind of a time where,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you know, I wasn&#8217;t<br \/>\nI was meeting new people.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So you know, socialising a lot more.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I think that was around<br \/>\nthe time where I thought, oh gosh,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I think I need to lose some weight.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is probably probably<br \/>\nwhen I started to, to I guess, diet.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So how did you hear about Alan Carr&#8217;s<br \/>\nEasy Way?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So funnily enough it was through a friend\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>who wrote the Quit Smoking book, so\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>this might surprise you.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Can. In fact, I was a smoker as well.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I didn&#8217;t know that.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know I don&#8217;t tell many people,<br \/>\nbut it wasn&#8217;t a.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Huge.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Issue for me at the time, But<br \/>\nit was beginning to snowball a little bit.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It was kind of in my uni years.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, you know,<br \/>\nyou kind of end up doing lots of things.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And smoking was one of them.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I was a bit of a casual smoker,<br \/>\nbut I could tell that it was getting&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>to be a bit of a problem.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So anyway,<br \/>\nI heard about it through a friend&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;who had quitted smoking<br \/>\nsuccessfully through reading the book,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and this inspired me<br \/>\nto want to read the book myself.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So I basically quitted.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then of course, I&#8217;m a bit of a researcher<br \/>\nI like to call myself.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I looked more<br \/>\ninto what this was all about,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and that&#8217;s when I\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;discovered, you know,<br \/>\nthere was more books available.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So yeah, that&#8217;s kind of how I came<br \/>\nacross the method, though.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did you read the book<br \/>\nor did you come along to a seminar?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes. Yes, I read The Weight<br \/>\nThe Easy Way to Lose Weight book,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;which is a slightly older<br \/>\nversion of the method,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and that kind of transformed<br \/>\nmy way of thinking&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;surrounding foods<br \/>\nand kind of fat diet mentality&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and that kind of<br \/>\nyo yo thing that I was doing with my&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>with my weight and my eating.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So that really inspired and changed<br \/>\nthe way I looked at food in general.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So you changed your relationship with food<br \/>\nand then what made you&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>then want to become a facilitator?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So I was invited to help\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;with the life seminars, help<br \/>\ncreate the life seminars for the&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>weight loss and sugar addiction program\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and with the books, actually.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So this kind of at this point,<br \/>\nI was already kind of&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;very inspired<br \/>\nby the easy way to lose weight book.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, I had this, you know, interest<br \/>\nin the way I ate&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and using food as a form of medicine,<br \/>\nI guess, and improving on my health.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So at that point,<br \/>\nI was very much interested in my eating&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and I was invited to help<br \/>\nwith developing the new&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;weight loss and sugar addiction program,<br \/>\nas well as&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>going on to develop the the books as well.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And what&#8217;s it like now for you to be<br \/>\ndelivering the message to other people?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yes. So very, very interesting.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And Exciting, actually,<br \/>\nbecause you get an array&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;of different types of people<br \/>\ncoming along, people who kind of&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;just want to focus on their sugar<br \/>\naddiction&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;are the people who have joined<br \/>\nwith the view of losing weight.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then it&#8217;s wonderful to kind of start<br \/>\nto see the&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the Cokes, the wheels changing and turning<br \/>\nas you kind of&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;go throughout the day in them<br \/>\nand then realising actually the&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the source of the problem<br \/>\nis, is essentially brown sugar&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and helping them to get free of that.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s it&#8217;s wonderful to see that kind<br \/>\nof mindset change as you work for the day.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And you know, it&#8217;s it&#8217;s<br \/>\ngreat to be able to help&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;all sorts of people come along and,<br \/>\nyou know, quit eating junk basically.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s exciting.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So what kind of people come along to<br \/>\nyour seminar&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>is is it mainly men or women or what?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the general demographic?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a mixture of people.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s<br \/>\nusually the both women and men,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;but I&#8217;d say kind of between their forties<br \/>\nand fifties.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I do often get people who are<br \/>\nin the younger years or much older.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So there is an array,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I guess the\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;majority are usually in their forties<br \/>\nand fifties.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s kind of an interesting\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;point in their life because obviously<br \/>\nthey&#8217;ve gone for years of dieting,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you know, losing lots of weight,<br \/>\nbut also just put it all back on&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and been unsuccessful.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it&#8217;s great<br \/>\nbecause they&#8217;ve come to a point&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>where they&#8217;re like,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need to make a serious change and<br \/>\nI want to make this a lifestyle change.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it&#8217;s wonderful<br \/>\nto have that group of people.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that&#8217;s the thing, because<br \/>\nonce you&#8217;ve been through that binge&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;cycle a few times and the dieting and<br \/>\nand you realise that it doesn&#8217;t work,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;then you, you recognize that you need<br \/>\na completely different approach.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And that&#8217;s what&#8217;s great about the Alan<br \/>\nCarr program is&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;it&#8217;s not a set of recipes<br \/>\nfrom the latest celeb, it&#8217;s completely&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;resetting your psychological framework<br \/>\naround eating.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, and is this a lifestyle change?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;re not promoting\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that kind of documents fallacy<br \/>\nor about counting calories as actually&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;undoing years of brainwashing<br \/>\nsurrounding what we view what junkies&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and the kind\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;of undoing diet mentality<br \/>\nthat you must lose&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;as much weight as soon as possible<br \/>\nin order to be successful.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s actually kind of just drawn you back<br \/>\nto a more natural way of eating and&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;inspiring a lifestyle change<br \/>\nthat you can live this way&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;for the rest of your life<br \/>\nand enjoy it too.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So when I refers to Ban Sugar, it&#8217;s<br \/>\nkind of talking about refined&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;sugars,<br \/>\nprocessed and starchy carbs as well.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So most people think, oh, it&#8217;s<br \/>\nthis sugary items that are an issue,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;but actually it could be<br \/>\nthings are savoury to processed.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But what you would wouldn&#8217;t associate<br \/>\nwith sugary items like,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I guess, breads, pasta,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;things like that,<br \/>\nthey are all processed and can cause you&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and then an issue in the form of bad<br \/>\nsugar addiction.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, when I talk about brown sugar.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not just overtly sugary items,<br \/>\nbut it is also,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you know, starchy,<br \/>\nprocessed carbs as well.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s kind of undoing that brainwashing\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that we need them<br \/>\nin order to enhance our lives in some way.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And by not having them, you&#8217;re missing out<br \/>\nin some way.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, people feel like it&#8217;s a way<br \/>\nof connecting with family, friends or,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>you know,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;it&#8217;s it&#8217;s to help you<br \/>\nthrough the stresses of life&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;or to comfort you<br \/>\nor when you&#8217;re feeling low.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So brown sugar kind of gets all these,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you know, all sorts of credit<br \/>\nfor all sorts of things.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But actually, in reality,<br \/>\nit doesn&#8217;t do any of those things.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And Shorten does the very opposite.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just just keeps you<br \/>\nin that addiction trap.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So is your aim<br \/>\nto reduce the intake of bad sugar&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>or is it to eliminate it completely?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yes, to it to remove that\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>desire to have it at all so that if you\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>so that you can eat\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;more wholesome foods, foods<br \/>\nthat are easily digestible&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;give you the lovely news<br \/>\nthat your body is actually yearning for&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and gives you the real energy<br \/>\nand vibrancy.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So basically fruit,<br \/>\nvegetables, nuts and seeds.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But you know,<br \/>\nyou don&#8217;t to be a vegan for this to work.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I&#8217;m certainly not<br \/>\npromoting veganism at all.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But if you want to be a vegan,<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s great.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t totally, you can be totally<br \/>\nsuccessful without becoming.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So you can continue to eat<br \/>\nthings like meat, fish, dairy&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and be absolutely fine.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it is about inspiring and encouraging<br \/>\nthe bulk of what you&#8217;re eating&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;is going to be primary foods,<br \/>\nfruits, vegetables and things like that.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And the idea is to completely remove<br \/>\nthat desire for junk food&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>so that you can go on about your day.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Choosing the foods,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;give you the real energy<br \/>\nyour body&#8217;s body is yearning for.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And what are the results<br \/>\nthat you&#8217;re achieving?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s the feedback<br \/>\nlike from the seminars?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah,<br \/>\nso generally I&#8217;ve had people who said&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>that they feel more energised,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you know, just you know,<br \/>\nnot having to experience these mood swings&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that they thought previously were normal<br \/>\nand, and every everyday part of their life&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;they&#8217;ve discovered that they do<br \/>\nenjoy certain fruits that they thought&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;they didn&#8217;t enjoy before,<br \/>\nbut because they were eating junk,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;they couldn&#8217;t actually taste the lovely,<br \/>\nwonderful tastes of fruit and vegetables.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then I guess there&#8217;s the, you know,<br \/>\nthe the external changes like weight loss.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s often I&#8217;ll get somebody say<br \/>\nthey&#8217;ve lost two stones or,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you know, however<br \/>\nmuch over a certain period of time.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s great to hear.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most importantly,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s great to hear how they feel&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and how that&#8217;s impacted on their life<br \/>\nin that way positively.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And when did you quit<br \/>\nanything else with Allen?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Cause easy way.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It did actually quit drinking\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and I think\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that was of is as a result of me<br \/>\nstopping eating junk.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it was a by-product of that<br \/>\nbecause what I realised was&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>my body just kept.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was more sensitive, I think I was more<br \/>\nI recognised that I just couldn&#8217;t&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>take drinking any more.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it was, I guess, the last addiction<br \/>\nI had to deal with.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And it happened quite naturally.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just thought, okay, if I feel like this<br \/>\nwith if I felt like that with junk,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;how can I continue<br \/>\nto ignore how I feel without coal?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So it just inspired me to want to quit.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I&#8217;ve actually been a non drinker<br \/>\nfor four years.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s coming up to four years<br \/>\nor even maybe more.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah,<br \/>\nfive years in January. I think it is.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So yes, it&#8217;s gone really quickly.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I it&#8217;s just crazy.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thought alcohol<br \/>\nwas always going to be a part of my life.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>You know, I&#8217;ve\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>you know, it&#8217;s very social thing.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It hasn&#8217;t been quite demonised<br \/>\nlike smoking has, even though,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you know, people will still go<br \/>\nto great lengths to continue to, to smoke.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But yeah, it just,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;it was quite natural for me to quit after<br \/>\nquitted eating junk.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I just continued to ignore.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How and why did you think you&#8217;d be now<br \/>\nif you hadn&#8217;t come across?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Allen calls easy.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Way, probably still drinking,<br \/>\nsmoking and eating junk. So.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And yeah, I have no clue.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even consider it, to be honest.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even imagine it what life would be\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;if I was still<br \/>\nif I hadn&#8217;t come across the all.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even imagine that.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not even worth giving the energy to.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But yeah.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And how have your friends and family<br \/>\nreacted to these changes that you&#8217;ve made?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because, you know, sometimes<br \/>\nthere can be a bit of resistance.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And there was. Yeah.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So funnily enough, when I\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>quitted drinking,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>that was probably one of the biggest ones.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>You know, I was, I was very much,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I guess the party starter,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>so I would usually be the one going,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Hey, let&#8217;s have shots or\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>you know, I&#8217;d be the last one drinking.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So I think going from drinking locks\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>to just not drinking at all, that was\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that was probably a bit of a shock<br \/>\nto some of my friends&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and they just had to make<br \/>\na slight adjustment.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of them didn&#8217;t understand right<br \/>\naway, but, you know, when they realise&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;actually, you know,<br \/>\nI was looking brighter, healthier,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>they were quite happy to just support it\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>in terms of food,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say that was probably easier.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Initially there was,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you know, there was probably<br \/>\nsome questions about, Oh,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;are you on a diet or you know,<br \/>\nwhat are you doing this for? But&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>yeah, it was it was pretty easy.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it was<br \/>\nalcohol was the one that was&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the one that most people<br \/>\nhad the most issue with,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;because that&#8217;s pretty much<br \/>\nwhat everyone does, really.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, so.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you do now then,<br \/>\nwhen you&#8217;re going out with your friends?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m a connoisseur of sparkling water\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>and a bit of lime,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>fresh lime.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In terms of eating,\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will tend to either eat<br \/>\nbefore I go out or&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am the sort of person<br \/>\nwho will call the restaurant&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;beforehand<br \/>\nif they can offer me some lovely options,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;or if I can choose the restaurant,<br \/>\nthen I&#8217;ll check out the menu.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I am very much an organiser\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;so I love to organize where we eat anyway,<br \/>\nso it&#8217;s easy, easy for me&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and I often cheese great spots<br \/>\nfor everybody else if I say so myself.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But yeah, yeah, for easy.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And I think what helped with the method\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>as is, I gave me a lot of confidence\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;because there will be people who question<br \/>\nwhat you do.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Why are you doing it?\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But actually the method<br \/>\njust kind of helps you to see,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;do you want to keep quitting your freedom<br \/>\nany more?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is that worth that time and energy,<br \/>\nthat money spent?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Not really.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And actually I&#8217;m much more confident<br \/>\nnow than I was ten years ago&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>when I was eating and drinking.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And finally, funnily enough,<br \/>\nthose are the things I thought&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;helped me with my confidence, helped me,<br \/>\nyou know, be more sociable.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But actually they were stopping me<br \/>\nfrom developing those social skills&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;in a sense, because I&#8217;d quickly down<br \/>\na couple of glasses of wine,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d have, you know,<br \/>\nthat junk food too to make me feel better.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But actually\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;they were just stopping me<br \/>\nfrom living life to its fullest,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;stopping me from actually finding out<br \/>\nwhat I really wanted to do in life.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I really wanted to enjoy in life.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And it had nothing to do<br \/>\nwith those addictions.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those addictions were stopping me<br \/>\nfrom being mine.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Happy yourself, I guess.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, because I remember<br \/>\nwhen I was eating Bad Sugar,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;it was something that I really regarded<br \/>\nas being a treat.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Like if I was coming home\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;after a long day at work<br \/>\nand I would think, Oh good, you know,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could get home all slumped in<br \/>\nfront of the telly and I&#8217;ll just eat junk.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But what&#8217;s lovely is through the Alan\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Carr method, you can understand<br \/>\nand recognize that that is not a reward.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s slavery.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, absolutely.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I think it&#8217;s funny because, you know,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re not the only person.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think<br \/>\nlots of people who attend the sessions&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;will say that will say, Oh,<br \/>\nbut what am I going to do in the evening?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What am I going to enjoy like home,<br \/>\nHow am I going to enjoy my evenings?&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>But actually it&#8217;s not an enjoyment\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;to sit in front of the telly and eat<br \/>\nall of that junk because the junk is&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;what&#8217;s making me feel slow, is<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s making you feel low.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fact, it has a really aggressive effect<br \/>\non your on&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;your your mood and your your<br \/>\nand your body as well.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So the very thing that they think will<br \/>\nhelp them feel comforted is the very thing&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;that is actually stopping them<br \/>\nfrom truly relaxing, truly,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>you know, enjoying that evening.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that is amazing.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you so much for sharing your time<br \/>\nwith us and for all the work that you do,&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>helping people, too.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>And it comes easy way too.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A free themselves from addictions.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>What a fantastic episode.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appreciate all your questions<br \/>\nand we&#8217;re thrilled&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;to have had Monique<br \/>\nand John as our guests alongside.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Sir Richard Branson.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you enjoyed this episode as much as we<br \/>\ndid, please help us get the message&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;out there by liking subscribing<br \/>\nand rating the podcast and don&#8217;t&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;go anywhere because we still have<br \/>\nsome amazing episodes coming up soon.&#8221;\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>So keep listening.\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\t<script 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Please click the video below to watch the podcast\",\"transcript\":\"Welcome\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;to the Allen Carr&#8217;s Easy Way podcast,\\nthe program that will change your assumptions\\nand beliefs about addiction here.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;We don&#8217;t advocate\\nfor using willpower to quit because we&#8217;ve&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;discovered a much easier\\nand much more effective method.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nMy name is Colleen Dwyer.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I&#8217;m a senior facilitator to Allen Carr&#8217;s\\nEasy Way.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I&#8217;m the presenter of our online\\nvideo programs and your podcast host.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;With me is John Dicey global\\nCEO of Allen Carr&#8217;s Easy Way and co-author&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;of the Allen Carr books and a senior\\nAllen Carr\\u00e2\\u20ac\\u2122s Easyway facilitator.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;John has over 25 years of experience\\nin helping millions of addicts&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nbreak free from their addictions.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And he has a lot of valuable knowledge\\nand wisdom to share.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;John and I are answering questions\\nfrom listeners such as Why&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;am I not able to quit with the book\\nsecond time around?&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And why does the alcohol book not resonate\\nwith me like the smoking book did?&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;If you\\u00e2\\u20ac\\u2122d like your questions answered,\\ndrop us a line on POD at allencarr .&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;com with whatever you\\u00e2\\u20ac\\u2122d like to say\\nor any questions that you have.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Also joining us today is Monique,\\nwho is an Allen Carr&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;facilitator for weight and sugar addiction\\nseminars.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Monique has personally experienced\\nthe power and effectiveness of the call&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;method as she used it,\\nto improve her relationship with food&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and completely\\nget rid of any sugar cravings.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Now she shares this method with others\\nthrough the life seminars,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and we also have a special feature\\ntoday from Sir Richard Branson,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;who is a supporter of quitting\\nsmoking with Allen Carr&#8217;s easy way.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Sir Richard\\nBranson has some motivational words&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;for those\\nwho are thinking about quitting smoking,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and we&#8217;re very thankful that he took\\nthe time to record them for us.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;We&#8217;re happy to answer any questions\\nthat you have about any addiction.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And even if we don&#8217;t actually feature\\nyour question in a future episode&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;of the podcast, we will personally reply\\nto every single question&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;we receive, providing you\\nwith detailed advice and guidance.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So don&#8217;t forget,\\nget in touch on pods at Cars.com and do&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;also check out Allen Carr dot com and see\\nthe host of Addictions and issues.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Allen Carr&#8217;s easy\\nway has now been applied to.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So sit back, relax and open your mind\\nto a new way of understanding addiction.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;This is the Allen Carr&#8217;s Easy\\nWay podcast just addictive addiction.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nWe want to hear your success stories\\t\\t\\t\\nand provide advice\\t\\t\\t\\nto you.\\t\\t\\t\\nThis advice is free.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;John will answer every question\\nwe receive with no exception.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nTake this now apart at Allen Carr dot com.\\t\\t\\t\\nRight.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So we&#8217;re back again\\nfor addiction Central on the new podcast.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nWelcome John.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;We&#8217;ve got three questions\\nthrough from the listeners&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;which we&#8217;re going to go through\\nand the first one is from Linda.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nBasically, Linda says she&#8217;s 51 years old.\\t\\t\\t\\nShe quitted smoking by reading the book.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;She didn&#8217;t say what title,\\nbut she said it was in 2000 and she quit&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nfor 17 years successfully and happily.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But then she made a mistake of thinking\\nthat one wouldn&#8217;t hurt.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;She picked up a cigarette\\nand we all know what follows from there.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;She kind of linked it to the fact\\nthat her parents both died.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But then since then,\\nshe&#8217;s reread the book twice and she says&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nit&#8217;s the new version from 2014,\\t\\t\\t\\nwhich isn&#8217;t the new version.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But she&#8217;s also attended about three online\\nseminars&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nand one in person seminar in Perth,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;but she hasn&#8217;t kept it\\nand she says she&#8217;s struggling&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;to get what she got from it\\nthe first time,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;even though she knows the method\\nand she believes in the method,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;but she&#8217;s just not getting back\\nto where she was and she&#8217;s on top of that.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nShe&#8217;s like really struggling financially.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;She&#8217;s got a lot pressure\\non her risks of losing some assets&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and she needs to get\\na budget under control.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Her health has been deteriorating\\nand now she&#8217;s getting like warnings&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nfrom the doctors that\\t\\t\\t\\nshe&#8217;s got mild COPD.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But it will get worse if she doesn&#8217;t,\\nyou know, address the issue.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;She&#8217;s taking painkillers\\nand anti-depressants and,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you know, she&#8217;s got the cancer scares\\nand other health issues.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So she&#8217;s she sounds pretty desperate\\nand pretty frustrated.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;She&#8217;s taking\\nor she&#8217;s reading the book again, but she&#8217;s&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;wearing patches and she knows that\\nthat goes contrary to what Alan says.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nBut yeah,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;she says she&#8217;s desperate\\nand she just doesn&#8217;t know&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nwhy she&#8217;s finding it difficult this time.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So I know that you have already replied\\nto Linda, and I read the response,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;which is very detailed,\\nand I hope that she&#8217;s, you know,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\ngetting some success with it now.\\t\\t\\t\\nBut what would you say to Linda?\\t\\t\\t\\nYes, interestingly,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;because I think witch hunters\\naren&#8217;t people as quickly as we can.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And in future, those answers we think\\nwill be useful to the listeners. So&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nit is good\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;when we do sort of provide\\nadvice and guidance&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nis really sort of\\t\\t\\t\\nwell rounded so\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;that people do\\nget quite a lot of advice back.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;If they follow it, normally they&#8217;re fine\\nand that&#8217;s the&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nreally important thing about it.\\t\\t\\t\\nSo sort of do two days really.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;There&#8217;s so many issues there for Linda\\nwas on there in terms of&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;the better work for her in the past,\\nwhich is brilliant.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So she&#8217;s got that reassurance that it does\\nwork,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;hasn&#8217;t worked for,\\nyou know, this time around.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nThere can be a few reasons for that.\\t\\t\\t\\nI think quite often\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;when the method works for somebody\\nand they make a mistake,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;what they do is they try to recapture\\nthe feeling they had before&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nwhen when the method worked\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and if if when they finished a book\\nor a seminar or whatever else,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;if they don&#8217;t feel exactly the same way\\nas they remember feeling before,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nthey automatically assumed that it works.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And that that leads to failure is sort of\\na just becomes a&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nself-fulfilling prophecy, so to speak.\\t\\t\\t\\nSo I think\\t\\t\\t\\nreally important thing is\\t\\t\\t\\ntry not to recapture\\t\\t\\t\\nthe feeling you had before.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So how do you feel at the end,\\nwhether you read the book again&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;or whether you watch the online\\nvideo program or attend the Life seminar&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nor in person, how do you feel\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;once you&#8217;ve completed\\nthat is right for you&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;here and now and it&#8217;s\\nmost likely going to be completed.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;If it&#8217;s how you remember feeling before,\\nyou might feel less confident&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;or you might feel more confident,\\nyou might feel&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;a bit nervous\\nabout it, but apprehensive about it.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nThat&#8217;s all very natural\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and it&#8217;ll be absolutely fine\\nas long as you don&#8217;t let the fact&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;that you don&#8217;t feel the same as you did\\nbefore for both of you.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSo anybody it becomes becomes a problem.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I always compare\\nthis sort of couple of examples really.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI remember the first time\\t\\t\\t\\nI saw my favourite band play\\t\\t\\t\\nand it was just magical.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It was just, you know,\\nI really wanted to save a life.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI really wanted to\\t\\t\\t\\nsee how they were\\t\\t\\t\\nand it blew my socks off.\\t\\t\\t\\nIt was just the most amazing experience.\\t\\t\\t\\nBut then I went to see them again.\\t\\t\\t\\nI loved every minute of it.\\t\\t\\t\\nIt was really brilliant.\\t\\t\\t\\nIt wasn&#8217;t the same as the first time,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and if I let that bother me,\\nmaybe I would have enjoyed it as much.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But each experience,\\nI saw them quite a few times.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Each experience was brilliant,\\nbut not the same as the first time.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI felt like if that makes sense. So.\\t\\t\\t\\nSo that&#8217;s really important.\\t\\t\\t\\nYou feel different than before\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and you&#8217;ll be familiar\\nwith what you read or or hear.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd as long as you go through\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;that sort of familiar process\\nin a positive way, thinking,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nokay, I understand that.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Yeah, I understand Now I accept that\\nrather than I knew this last time.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nBut if that I knew this last time.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But that gets in the way of the sort\\nof the cognitive process.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So that&#8217;s, that&#8217;s quite,\\nquite an important point.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;How we feel once you&#8217;ve completed\\nthe program this time is fine for you.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nThis at this moment.\\t\\t\\t\\nDon&#8217;t worry, don&#8217;t worry about that.\\t\\t\\t\\nCouple of things she mentioned was\\t\\t\\t\\nalso possibly\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;bothering her\\nin terms of achieving success&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nto the breathing, sort of,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you know, condolences again, Linda,\\nif you feel bereavement.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nBut I think\\t\\t\\t\\nbereavement wouldn&#8217;t normally cause\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;someone to go back to smoking\\nwho uses this method.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I think it&#8217;s understandable\\nthat sometimes it does.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But I think if people understand\\nwhen you have bad news or&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\ntragedy\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;or even the sort of minor\\nor trivial stress,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;it creates a really unpleasant feeling,\\nlike an anxious, uptight, tense feeling.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nIt&#8217;s exactly the same feeling as\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;smoking used to get when I used to smoke\\nwhen a cigarette could have one.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And it&#8217;s\\nalmost like an echo from the past.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And if you don&#8217;t careful, you kind of\\nyou accept that for that feeling.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nPeople sort of think, well,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you know, just like fancying\\na cigarette out of the blue&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;or stressed and everything was going\\nwrong in life or whatever.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nThat&#8217;s just a feeling of stress.\\t\\t\\t\\nThat&#8217;s all it is in the cigarette.\\t\\t\\t\\nNever took that feeling away.\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd the way they deal with\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;stress is just to realise\\nthat&#8217;s what it is and take it off really.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Sunny when you think that that cigarette\\nmight be a solution to that, it becomes&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nbecomes an issue.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And, and there&#8217;s more on that now\\nand it&#8217;s quite a detail with Linda&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nexplaining that further.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And the other factor\\nwhich is quite similar is&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nthe ill health Linda was experiencing.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;She&#8217;s got lots of stuff going on,\\nyou know, real stress involved in that.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd people try to use health issues as a\\t\\t\\t\\nas a motivated to quit to help succeed.\\t\\t\\t\\nBut it actually is counterproductive\\t\\t\\t\\nwhen you focus on something,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you know, really negative or scary\\nor whatever.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;The first thing a smoker does\\nwhen they experience&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nthat is have a cigarette.\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd it it kind of becomes\\t\\t\\t\\nit just becomes top of your mind.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Rather than thinking of freedom,\\nyou&#8217;re on your way, you&#8217;re escaping,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you become ensconced\\nin this sort of kind of negative place,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;just burdened by, you know,\\nwhat&#8217;s going to happen if you don&#8217;t quit.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So it&#8217;s really important to treat,\\nyou know, release&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;from those concerns as far as you can\\nbe, release most concerns.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And as a bonus,\\nwhen you when you get free, I think this&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nthat&#8217;s really important. And\\t\\t\\t\\nwhen you do\\t\\t\\t\\nthat, it&#8217;s almost as if it lifts the fog.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;You can actually start\\nfocusing on the methods and&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nand letting the letting the method\\t\\t\\t\\nand the method work.\\t\\t\\t\\nI think that&#8217;s about it.\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd it&#8217;s really something out there Now.\\t\\t\\t\\nI think you covered the points. It&#8217;s\\t\\t\\t\\nyou know, it is terribly\\t\\t\\t\\nsad when things go wrong in life and\\t\\t\\t\\nand we lose people we love and\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;we face disappointments\\nand all the rest of it.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But I have to say, since I quit smoking\\nwithout a cause easy way,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;every that I always\\nno matter how bad things have gotten,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I think I&#8217;ve I&#8217;ve at least\\nI&#8217;m free to know.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Like, at least I don&#8217;t smoke so that\\nit will never, ever be that bad again.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And I&#8217;m not trivialising\\nyou know what what people go through and&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and certainly for for\\ndays he&#8217;s had a really rough time of it.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But you&#8217;ve got one positive\\nwhen you quit smoking this time around&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and that&#8217;s\\nthe you&#8217;ve got your freedom back.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So that&#8217;s something to treasure and can\\nalways give you a little bit of a lift.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But and the other thing I was thinking\\nactually reading Linda&#8217;s email was that,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you know, like, I don&#8217;t I&#8217;m\\nnot saying that Linda did this, but I know&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;that I might be a bit prone to it, that\\nI misremembered how I felt at the seminar.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI think we talked about this in a previous\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;podcast that I came to my seminar\\nwith one of my brothers&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nand my best friend and\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;when I\\nwhen I after seven, after I quit smoking&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and I was really enthused about it all\\nand I wanted to&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;join the organisation, my best friend and\\nmy brother were laughing at me and I was.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd I said, Why are you laughing?\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And they said, Because of how you felt\\nwhen you left the seminar.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd I just I didn&#8217;t get it.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I thought, I don&#8217;t understand.\\nI was really happy.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t wait to kind of get out there\\nand start, you know, enjoy my freedom.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd they, they laughed.\\t\\t\\t\\nThey said, No, you were not like that.\\t\\t\\t\\nYou were like, What was that all about?\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;You know, like you weren&#8217;t\\nyou weren&#8217;t convinced.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nYou weren&#8217;t like,\\t\\t\\t\\nlike, really happy about it.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But but I was remembering it in that way\\nbecause&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I later on down the line,\\nI knew the outcome.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I knew that\\nit was everything that was promised to be.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So it was kind of like I was,\\nI don&#8217;t know.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI was just misremembering it.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So when you&#8217;re like in\\nin the case of someone who&#8217;s quit&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and then returned to smoking for\\nwhatever reason,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and then they reread the book\\nor attend a seminar, again,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;maybe their expectation\\nis like unrealistic.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI&#8217;m not saying that people aren&#8217;t happy.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Of course people are happier when they\\nwhen they quit, but at the point of you&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;realising that you&#8217;ve quit\\nand you&#8217;ve done it&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and you&#8217;ve got your moment of revelation,\\nI think that was it.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I was remembering my moment of revelation\\nas happening&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;immediately\\nas I put out my final cigarette.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But actually my moment of revelation\\nprobably came a few days after I quit.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Obviously I didn&#8217;t smoke since\\nhaving my final cigarette, but&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;yeah, some just maybe bear that in mind\\nand just take it as it comes.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Because when you first read\\nthat book, Linda,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you had no expectation\\nof how you were meant to fail.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nYou just took it as it came.\\t\\t\\t\\nYou were open minded about it.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And I think you need to drop that again\\nthis time around.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Just have no particular fixed view of\\nI have to feel this way&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nin order for it to to have worked.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I think I also just\\none more thing as well on that&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and you alluded to this earlier,\\nwhich was Linda.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nLinda thought she was reading the new book\\t\\t\\t\\nDoable 2014.\\t\\t\\t\\nIt&#8217;s now a very old book fact.\\t\\t\\t\\nSo the most up to date\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;cutting edge version of the method\\nin writing&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nis an easy way to quit\\t\\t\\t\\nsmoking, rather easy way to quit smoking.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And that&#8217;s that&#8217;s really quite important\\nbecause it has something&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nlike 25 years of\\t\\t\\t\\nupgraded information, examples, anecdotes.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It touches on stuff\\nthat wasn&#8217;t even an issue&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;when the original book was published\\nand the subsequent updates were published.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nEven. And\\t\\t\\t\\nit&#8217;s crazy.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;We, you know, we offer people advice on\\nhow to succeed using the book.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;They already have even said\\nbooks 30 years old.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;We&#8217;re very confident\\nthat this should work.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nBut why?\\t\\t\\t\\nWhy miss out on\\t\\t\\t\\nthe best possible treatment you could get\\t\\t\\t\\nin the new version of the book?\\t\\t\\t\\nIt&#8217;s just not worth the risk.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Cost less\\nthan a couple of packs of cigarettes.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So this isn&#8217;t by any means a commercial\\nfor the new upgrade of the book,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nbut just it&#8217;s really important.\\t\\t\\t\\nYou know, we did it for a reason.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And the reason was\\nit was time to include all kinds of stuff&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;that really just enriches\\nthe method even more.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSo it&#8217;s well worth well worth it.\\t\\t\\t\\nAssignment cost easy way to quit smoking.\\t\\t\\t\\nI think there&#8217;s a subtitles. Quit smoking.\\t\\t\\t\\nCourse these quit smoking.\\t\\t\\t\\nThe method upgraded for the 2020s.\\t\\t\\t\\nThink that&#8217;s the F?\\t\\t\\t\\nYeah. On there as well. So nice. Great.\\t\\t\\t\\nFabulous, Great stuff.\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd good luck, Linda.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Not that you need luck,\\nbut all the best with it.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSo the next\\t\\t\\t\\none that we have is about vaping.\\t\\t\\t\\nIt&#8217;s from Ryan\\t\\t\\t\\nin London.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Where was Linda from?\\nShe was from Australia.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So Ryan says I&#8217;ve quitted smoking\\nby vaping and now I want to quit vaping&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nand can&#8217;t seem to manage it.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It feels like the fact that it doesn&#8217;t\\nstink like smoking does&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and it isn&#8217;t as inconvenient\\nlike smoking was&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;because I can take sneaky puffs\\nwherever I want to, whenever I want that&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;because it doesn&#8217;t have those negatives,\\nit might make it harder to quit.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd I loved your reply to this one, John.\\t\\t\\t\\nI&#8217;ve got to try and remember what it was.\\t\\t\\t\\nNo, but notice I think\\t\\t\\t\\nthis has come up quite often.\\t\\t\\t\\nIt&#8217;s not just Ryan.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;A couple of people inquire\\nalong these lines&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nand the the\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;the thinking they have\\nis that because it doesn&#8217;t stink anymore&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;or because it&#8217;s not inconvenient anymore,\\nthey can do it pretty much&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nwherever they want.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It&#8217;s harder to quit\\nas if the fact it stank&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and was inconvenient\\never helped anyone quit.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nIt never helped me quit.\\t\\t\\t\\nYeah.\\t\\t\\t\\nSo it&#8217;s really just kind of good looking\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and no way around is,\\nI think, what these become.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nThey&#8217;re like sort of.\\t\\t\\t\\nWe try and work out why we failed to quit.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And if we come up with an answer,\\nit sort of seems to make sense.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t really matter\\nwhether it&#8217;s right or wrong,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nbut it seems to make sense\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;that what we say, I think what Ryan&#8217;s done\\nthere is is really just assumed.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Yeah, it&#8217;s because it doesn&#8217;t stink\\nand it doesn&#8217;t I can do whatever I want&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nand I think\\t\\t\\t\\nonce you accept that\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;never helped anyone\\nstop smoking and never helped anyone&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nstop fighting.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Not not having to do with the smell\\nanymore, not having the control&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nin the slavery.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;What is a brilliant bonuses to enjoy\\nonce you once you quit?&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nThey&#8217;re not that motivation for\\t\\t\\t\\nfor quitting successfully\\t\\t\\t\\nso it&#8217;s turning around that way.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I mean and this is quite interesting\\nisn&#8217;t it?&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Because you know, you know,\\nvaping doesn&#8217;t stink.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nVapers don&#8217;t tend to stink.\\t\\t\\t\\nI mean, when they&#8217;re doing it, it does.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I think quite\\na lot of people think it&#8217;s a nice smell.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I think if they&#8217;re vaping, it, if anyone\\naround them, it&#8217;s normally pretty foul.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It&#8217;s,\\nit&#8217;s kind of sickly candy gross sort of&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nsmell.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And you know,\\nI used to smoke like a chimney and&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI&#8217;m not complaining about the smell.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t mind the smell of cigarette smoke,\\nfor example, for some reasons,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;like smoke seems like,\\nyou know, particularly&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nunpleasant.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why, but I think part of it&#8217;s\\nbecause it&#8217;s this fight for, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nThere&#8217;s vapor there and it&#8217;s got sort of\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;whether it&#8217;s cold candy or candyfloss\\nflavour or caramel flavor,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;it&#8217;s kind of like this weird stuff\\nbeing puffed out by someone.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And if you walk,\\nif you walking through town and you get&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;caught in a plume of it, it&#8217;s like hold\\nyour breath before you get out.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Just because it&#8217;s\\njust because it&#8217;s so, so GROSS.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So I think it&#8217;s the synthetic nature\\nof the smell and it&#8217;s just really off.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nBut no doubt, I don&#8217;t think\\t\\t\\t\\nsomebody vapes\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;smells in the same way as a smoker did,\\nthinking like an absolute ashtray,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Never quit me from smoking, if that&#8217;s why\\nso else smelt most of the time.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So it&#8217;s a bit of a red herring\\nreally, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd the same goes for the convenience.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I mean, the fact that people can like\\npretty much wherever&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nand whenever I want actually,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;just because that can seem more and more\\nand more of the drug&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nand more and more almost become\\t\\t\\t\\nhooked in constantly vaping,\\t\\t\\t\\nwhich is\\t\\t\\t\\npretty scary.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And this sort of still not much evidence\\nof the harms of vaping.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI think it&#8217;ll be years before that becomes\\t\\t\\t\\navailable and not\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;when the first studies do\\ncome out about the harms caused by vaping.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nIt&#8217;ll be based on, you know,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;those the original e-cigarettes\\nthat look a bit like cigarettes,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nthose original stuff.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;They&#8217;ll be based on that now\\nand they those products bear&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;the resemblance\\nto what&#8217;s going on at the moment where&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;whether you use a tank,\\nwhere you regulate the amount&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;of nicotine strengthened\\nnicotine is huge things, kind of just&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;plumes of smoke coming out\\nor whether it&#8217;s disposables&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;or any of the sort of equivalent\\nof 45 cigarettes&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nworth of nicotine in a disposable.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;The kids are buying these for five quid\\na time or six or $7 a time.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd and going through them in a dying.\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd this is a not correct situation to be.\\t\\t\\t\\nSo I think that&#8217;s a sort of\\t\\t\\t\\ngave the advice to Ryan and then\\t\\t\\t\\nreally just provided this kind of\\t\\t\\t\\nstep by step\\t\\t\\t\\nadvice for how he can\\t\\t\\t\\nsee reading the book, I think.\\t\\t\\t\\nWasn&#8217;t he?\\t\\t\\t\\nYes, he was reading the book on smoking.\\t\\t\\t\\nBut to get him off vaping. Right,\\t\\t\\t\\nto to read the book again.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And I think the book commission member\\ncould easily quit smoking&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;but that that does include vaping\\nand other nicotine&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nproducts.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So is really the best, best book\\nfor somebody who smokes&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and vapes\\nor recently quitted smoking and advice.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Now he&#8217;s going to quit vaping,\\nwhich is really best for somebody&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;who hasn&#8217;t smoked for a long time and\\nwho is or has never smoked and only vapes.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And there are more and more\\nthose people around.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I remember when I was a smoker\\nand I really used to dream&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I wish they would come up with a\\na clean cigarette, you know, like, well,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I suppose like a vapor it,\\nbut yeah, basically something that didn&#8217;t&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nwasn&#8217;t offensive and it wasn&#8217;t anti-social\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and it didn&#8217;t like cost the earth\\nand it wasn&#8217;t that bad for your health.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd, and what I recognised\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;when I quit with Alan Carr&#8217;s\\neasy way is the, I wouldn&#8217;t&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;care if they came out with a cigarette\\nthat legitimately&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;was not bad for your health and was free\\nand it wasn&#8217;t anti-social.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I still got no interest,\\nyou know, like because if you take away&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;all the negatives, what you&#8217;re left with,\\nlike it&#8217;s still a pointless activity.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nIt&#8217;s still\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;like wearing\\ntight shoes just to take them off.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s a bit of a it&#8217;s\\na it&#8217;s a nonsense really.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So it doesn&#8217;t matter if there&#8217;s a lot\\nof negatives to it or no negatives to it.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;The point we&#8217;re making\\nis that there&#8217;s no there&#8217;s no plus side.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I think went further with Ryan as well,\\nwhich is to sort of&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nsuggest that\\t\\t\\t\\nhe does some sort of\\t\\t\\t\\nmindful vaping of what you call it,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;but just, you know, stand\\nin front of the mirror and and fight.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nLook at yourself, look into your eyes,\\t\\t\\t\\ndo it for 5 minutes and just fight.\\t\\t\\t\\nIt doesn&#8217;t matter that you can do it\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;locked away in a low\\nor we&#8217;ve taken a sneaky path on a desk&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;at the office or even,\\nyou know, on a train or bus or whatever.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Look, look at what you&#8217;re doing\\nand understand.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nThis is a thing that has\\t\\t\\t\\nhad you\\t\\t\\t\\nhave down\\t\\t\\t\\nto that level of this sort of weird\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;sneaking a puff here and sneaking\\na puff there and getting away with it.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But if you actually look at it,\\nconfront yourself with what it is&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you&#8217;re doing,\\nyou&#8217;ll see how just very weird is.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And if the controlled to the slavery,\\nwhich is the most brilliant thing,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;once you are released from that,\\nthat&#8217;s the most brilliant thing about it.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It&#8217;s also most fully one of the most\\ninsidious things about about doing it.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But again, rather than use\\nthat as a motivating factor&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;that you control\\nthe slave way is enjoying it&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;fully when you&#8217;re when you&#8217;re free,\\nthat&#8217;s really, really important. So&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\ngoodness gracious.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And finally,\\nwe have an email in from Spencer&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;who said, I read articles\\nhow to quit smoking and it worked wonders.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd I&#8217;ve been smoke free for several years\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and I thought I should do\\nthe same method for my drinking.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve read the book several times,\\nbut it&#8217;s not clicking like smoking book.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nWhat am I doing wrong?\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;That&#8217;s kind of similar to\\nsome of the points that Linda was saying.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;You won&#8217;t want to repeat all of that\\nin one go&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;expecting to feel the same way as she did\\nbefore or whatever, I think.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nBut I think there&#8217;s just a case of\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;of understanding that there\\nthere is a difference.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nThere is a different process.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It&#8217;s the same method,\\nbut you&#8217;re going through&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nsomething very different than you were\\t\\t\\t\\nwhen you were quitting smoking.\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd try not to relate those\\t\\t\\t\\nthose two experiences.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I think I think it was a really short\\nquestion.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Spencer\\ncrossed with a really long sketch for me.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I think also I think it&#8217;s the importance\\nof reaching out for advice&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;from us direct as well, so that\\nwhich is exactly what expense has done.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI think it was anyone out there having any\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;conflict and experience with the easy way\\nor it doesn&#8217;t seem to be working for them&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;or work for them\\nonce it is working for them again.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And it really just just takes\\nminimal effort to get in touch with us.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And we do put a lot of effort\\ninto providing them the free, free&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;of charge advice, which is what it would\\nhave done with Spencer. But&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nwe&#8217;ve touched twice\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;in a previous episode as well,\\nwhich is that&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;the difference between the alcohol method\\nand the smoking method,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;some people think,\\nOh well, they just changed the words&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;smoking, nicotine, alcohol\\nand drinking or whatever.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And it just really isn&#8217;t as simple\\nas much,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you know, very different addiction\\nin many,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nmany different ways.\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd I&#8217;m sure that\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I think Spencer,\\nif he&#8217;s if he&#8217;s read the book&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nhe&#8217;s been through the method once.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So I think I always say\\nmy number one recommendation to anybody is&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nto attend a life seminar and think in this\\t\\t\\t\\nthis is what I situation is where\\t\\t\\t\\nI thoroughly recommend it because\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;there are\\nthere&#8217;s there&#8217;s things that facilitators&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;facilitate doing throughout the\\nseminar, which will just set&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSpencer&#8217;s mind at rest\\t\\t\\t\\nthat will, you know,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you can ask questions,\\nyou can check your understanding of things&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and be reassured\\nby the facilitator facilitator&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nin the room.\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd that&#8217;s where I go.\\t\\t\\t\\nWhy mess around with it?\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Why not just go straight,\\ngo straight for the life seminar&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nIf someone can&#8217;t afford that?\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I say,\\nI&#8217;m not sure whether Spencer did end up&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;attending a large seminar, but, you know,\\neven if you&#8217;ve read the book is quite&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nfull as it was, he should be fine.\\t\\t\\t\\nYou know, you should. You should go free.\\t\\t\\t\\nYeah. Yeah.\\t\\t\\t\\nI&#8217;m really, I suppose what you were saying\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;before as well is that\\nyou can&#8217;t be surprised by something twice.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So I remember when I did my smoking\\nseminar, actually,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;not that long afterwards\\nI did the alcohol seminar and.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nBut my\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;feeling going into the alcohol\\nseminar was quite different to my feeling&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;as I entered the smoking seminar,\\nbecause when I was going to my smoking&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;seminar, I was very dubious,\\nI was very unsure.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI didn&#8217;t know what to expect,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know what the light relaxation\\nwas going to be like.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know, you know,\\nif I was meant to talk.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd, you know, I didn&#8217;t.\\t\\t\\t\\nI was very uncertain.\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd then it works and I was thrilled.\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd then when I went along to my\\t\\t\\t\\nalcohol seminar,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I was much more\\nI sort of knew the process.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI knew the program in a sense.\\t\\t\\t\\nI know it&#8217;s not exactly the same,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;but I knew I knew the format at least,\\nand the general psychology.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And at the end of the alcohol seminar,\\nI, you know, I, it was easy.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nIt was easy, It was wonderful.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But I wasn&#8217;t surprised that it was easy,\\nyou know.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So I wasn&#8217;t quite, you know, I didn&#8217;t have\\nYeah, it just wasn&#8217;t quite as&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\ntaken aback by.\\t\\t\\t\\nI was just like, oh okay, cool.\\t\\t\\t\\nThere&#8217;s too much emphasis.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I think, sometimes on how you feel\\nat the end of the seminar&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;or reading the book, because people think\\nthat maybe your feeling is the indicator&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;of whether or not it&#8217;s people are looking\\nfor confirmation that it&#8217;s, that it&#8217;s&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;that it&#8217;s happened,\\nthe magic has happened or whatever.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But actually just you as an individual\\nmaking your decision, that&#8217;s&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nwhen it&#8217;s happened.\\t\\t\\t\\nAbsolutely.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And I love helping people\\nin social meeting.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;We got sort of several social media groups\\nfor stopping smoking, slash vaping,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nalcohol, sugar addiction,\\t\\t\\t\\nwhites, emotional eating.\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd we just started one for cannabis.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Somebody asked how would you smoke group\\nfor the kind of business&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nthere isn&#8217;t, but there is now.\\t\\t\\t\\nSo that&#8217;s up and running now as well.\\t\\t\\t\\nJust as a portal where people can can join\\t\\t\\t\\nand get advice from other members,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;guidance from other members\\nand and from ourselves&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nand I think\\t\\t\\t\\nI&#8217;m amazed.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It&#8217;s really important to me\\nto get an insight from that because, well,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;it&#8217;s helping people,\\nyou know, learn all sorts of stuff.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSo that&#8217;s people quite often\\t\\t\\t\\ndon&#8217;t understand certain things.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So they&#8217;ve got an online call book and\\nthey say this just isn&#8217;t going to work.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I&#8217;m reading, I&#8217;m reading it\\nand I&#8217;m puffing away.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Okay, how is this is this is quit\\nworking of sort&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;of what it does say that it does carry\\non smoking all the way through to the end.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd so I think\\t\\t\\t\\nthe book can be a bit repetitive at times,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and that is quite deliberate\\nbecause people do&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;clearly do need to to be reminded\\nthat, you know, just carry on.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Smoking\\nis not what you&#8217;re already smoking.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And at the end\\nyou&#8217;ll be ready to have a final cigarette&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and then that&#8217;s when you start\\nnow your final cigarette.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So those sort of insights\\nare really interesting,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;but it&#8217;s amazing how much they they\\nthey come up the same way.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nThe alcohol book.\\t\\t\\t\\nPeople say, you know, to quit working.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It&#8217;s a little difficult,\\nbut I have a horse.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I haven&#8217;t finished the book yet,\\nbut it&#8217;s one of those weird&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nsort of situations.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But the groups\\nthe groups are really helpful.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI think people do.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;People have got free with a method,\\nenjoy it,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;give it encouragement to people\\nwho are struggling.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nThey see it as a way of\\t\\t\\t\\npaying back and it is lovely. So.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So people celebrate their freedom\\ntogether.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;People get encouraged\\nif they&#8217;re struggling.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd, you know, we were repeatedly\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;offering the free advice,\\nyou know, from the group&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nand and touching\\t\\t\\t\\nresponding to those people who need help\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;by suggesting\\nhe can easily get in touch with us.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nFree advice.\\t\\t\\t\\nIt&#8217;s much easier.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And it was sort of ten or 15 years ago\\nwith so much support&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and advice\\navailable to anybody from anywhere really&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nwho needs advice.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And that is interesting\\nbecause I think Facebook even&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nautomatically translate languages.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;We got, you know, all kinds of languages\\nrepresented in the Facebook&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\ngroups each, and they can interact\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;perfectly\\nwell as as people do in an English.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;That&#8217;s wonderful but but it&#8217;s good\\nhopefully is fine.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I say whether you read the book again\\nor attended&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\na seminar, I&#8217;m sure we would be wonderful.\\t\\t\\t\\nThank you so much, John.\\t\\t\\t\\nThat&#8217;s it for for this episode.\\t\\t\\t\\nWe&#8217;ll see you next time.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And and you know, hopefully\\npeople will send in some more questions&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and things that we can address\\nthat will be useful for everyone.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Obviously, we have we had great success\\nthis time with people saying&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;where they were from,\\nthat that was a pretty good idea.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But forget to tell us where you&#8217;re from.\\nJust it&#8217;s nice to know.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nYeah, it&#8217;s a bit of interest to.\\t\\t\\t\\nSo when we were asking the question\\t\\t\\t\\nand like, say keep those questions\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;coming in and please, what do we want\\npeople to do on the down load.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSubscribe and write the podcast as well.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;That&#8217;s very, that&#8217;s very important\\nfor getting the word out out there&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nthat this is sort of\\t\\t\\t\\npodcast.\\t\\t\\t\\nIt hopes to help advise people\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;who want to otherwise\\nmake it to make it free.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nYeah. Wonderful.\\t\\t\\t\\nThank you for having me as a wrap since.\\t\\t\\t\\nJust additions a dig since\\t\\t\\t\\nwe want to hear your success story\\t\\t\\t\\nand provide advice is pretty darn\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;sure that you want to use\\nthis advice is free&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;so will answer every question\\nwe receive with no exception.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nTake this now from Alan Carr dot com.\\t\\t\\t\\nNow it&#8217;s time for our special feature.\\t\\t\\t\\nOur guests.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Richard Branson is a long time\\nadvocate of the easy way method.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;You might know him\\nas the founder of Virgin Atlantic&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and he also controls\\nmore than 400 companies in various fields.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;We&#8217;ve worked with Virgin Atlantic\\nfor many years, helping their employees&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;to quit smoking, and more recently\\nsince 2019,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;we&#8217;ve been working with Virgin Pulse,\\nwhich is the health and wellbeing platform&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;in the workplace, to deliver all\\nstop smoking services to their clients.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nEmployees.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So get ready to be inspired\\nby one of the most successful&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nentrepreneurs of all time.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Alan Carr has helped thousands of people\\nto quit smoking&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nhis method is absolutely unique.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Removing your dependence on\\ncigarettes while you smoke.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd I&#8217;m pleased to say\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;that his work for many of my friends\\nand my staff,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I quitted smoking a number of years ago\\nand certainly agree with Alan&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;that life is much fuller\\nand much more fun without cigarettes.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nGood luck.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And now we have the pleasure\\nof talking with Monique,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;who is one of our very experienced\\nand successful weight and sugar&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\naddiction facilitators.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;She&#8217;s here to share her insights\\non how to break free&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;from the chains of sugar addiction\\nand to live a healthier life.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nWelcome to the show, Monique. Hi.\\t\\t\\t\\nMy name is Monique\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and I&#8217;m a senior facilitator for the weight\\nloss and sugar addiction seminars.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Ban Sugar\\nhas kind of always been in my life&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nfrom the start, but I&#8217;d say, you know,\\t\\t\\t\\nmentally and\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;physically, I thought it helps me\\nfeel better.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nYou know, comforted.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But in reality, it negatively impacted\\non my moods how I dealt with stress.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nIt affected my anxiety levels as well.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And and just how, you know, generally\\nhow I just dealt with life&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nas it as it came at me.\\t\\t\\t\\nSo I didn&#8217;t sleep very well.\\t\\t\\t\\nI often stayed up really late\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;into the night\\nduring college and university time.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And that wasn&#8217;t because I was going out\\nlots or anything.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It&#8217;s just, you know,\\nI just didn&#8217;t sleep very well.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But physically, my skin,\\nyou know, was affected.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I had achy joints, which is\\nprobably unusual for somebody so young.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And I struggled with bouts of kind of IBS\\nlike type flare up flare ups.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So, you know, I fell ill numerous times\\nthroughout the year as well.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And I usually felt bloated\\nand I just thought that was normal.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;You know, I really struggled with flip\\nflopping with my weight.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So, you know, I put on lots of weight\\nand then I&#8217;d lose lots of it as well.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd this often happens for for many years\\t\\t\\t\\nI was probably about 13 stone.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So I was like a UK size 14 or so,\\nor at least&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI tried to fit into a UK size 14.\\t\\t\\t\\nBut yeah, I&#8217;d say that was my worst,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;but often kind of really go up and down,\\nfluctuate with my weight.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I just didn&#8217;t have\\na very good relationship with my eating.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI often equated,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you know, weight loss\\nwith very little basically.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSo I just continued eating junk.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But I just thought, Oh,\\nI just had to eat less of it.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So I&#8217;d go for long periods of\\nrestricting myself when it came to eating.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So basically starving myself and and not\\ngetting very many good foods into my body.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And then, of course, there&#8217;s only so long\\nyou go on doing that.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSo I did eventually fall off\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and go right back into eating\\nlots of brown sugar,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;so refined sugars, processed\\nstarchy carbs, junk food, basically.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And when would you say your relationship\\nwith food became distorted?&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI&#8217;d say college, actually.\\t\\t\\t\\nOr coming out of secondary school\\t\\t\\t\\nbecause I&#8217;d\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;put on a significant amount\\nin a way, over a over a summer.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI think it was I&#8217;d, you know,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;probably wasn&#8217;t very active,\\nbut also eating lots and lots of junk.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSo I&#8217;d put on a lot of lot of weight.\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd college was kind of a time where,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you know, I wasn&#8217;t\\nI was meeting new people.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSo you know, socialising a lot more.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And I think that was around\\nthe time where I thought, oh gosh,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI think I need to lose some weight.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;This is probably probably\\nwhen I started to, to I guess, diet.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So how did you hear about Alan Carr&#8217;s\\nEasy Way?&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nYeah.\\t\\t\\t\\nSo funnily enough it was through a friend\\t\\t\\t\\nwho wrote the Quit Smoking book, so\\t\\t\\t\\nthis might surprise you.\\t\\t\\t\\nCan. In fact, I was a smoker as well.\\t\\t\\t\\nOh, I didn&#8217;t know that.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I know I don&#8217;t tell many people,\\nbut it wasn&#8217;t a.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nHuge.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Issue for me at the time, But\\nit was beginning to snowball a little bit.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nIt was kind of in my uni years.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So, you know,\\nyou kind of end up doing lots of things.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd smoking was one of them.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So I was a bit of a casual smoker,\\nbut I could tell that it was getting&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nto be a bit of a problem.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So anyway,\\nI heard about it through a friend&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;who had quitted smoking\\nsuccessfully through reading the book,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and this inspired me\\nto want to read the book myself.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSo I basically quitted.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Then of course, I&#8217;m a bit of a researcher\\nI like to call myself.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So I looked more\\ninto what this was all about,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nand that&#8217;s when I\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;discovered, you know,\\nthere was more books available.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So yeah, that&#8217;s kind of how I came\\nacross the method, though.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Did you read the book\\nor did you come along to a seminar?&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Yes. Yes, I read The Weight\\nThe Easy Way to Lose Weight book,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;which is a slightly older\\nversion of the method,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and that kind of transformed\\nmy way of thinking&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;surrounding foods\\nand kind of fat diet mentality&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and that kind of\\nyo yo thing that I was doing with my&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nwith my weight and my eating.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So that really inspired and changed\\nthe way I looked at food in general.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So you changed your relationship with food\\nand then what made you&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nthen want to become a facilitator?\\t\\t\\t\\nYeah.\\t\\t\\t\\nSo I was invited to help\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;with the life seminars, help\\ncreate the life seminars for the&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nweight loss and sugar addiction program\\t\\t\\t\\nand with the books, actually.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So this kind of at this point,\\nI was already kind of&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;very inspired\\nby the easy way to lose weight book.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;You know, I had this, you know, interest\\nin the way I ate&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and using food as a form of medicine,\\nI guess, and improving on my health.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So at that point,\\nI was very much interested in my eating&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and I was invited to help\\nwith developing the new&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;weight loss and sugar addiction program,\\nas well as&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\ngoing on to develop the the books as well.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And what&#8217;s it like now for you to be\\ndelivering the message to other people?&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nYes. So very, very interesting.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And Exciting, actually,\\nbecause you get an array&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;of different types of people\\ncoming along, people who kind of&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;just want to focus on their sugar\\naddiction&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;are the people who have joined\\nwith the view of losing weight.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And then it&#8217;s wonderful to kind of start\\nto see the&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;the Cokes, the wheels changing and turning\\nas you kind of&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;go throughout the day in them\\nand then realising actually the&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;the source of the problem\\nis, is essentially brown sugar&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nand helping them to get free of that.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It&#8217;s it&#8217;s wonderful to see that kind\\nof mindset change as you work for the day.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And you know, it&#8217;s it&#8217;s\\ngreat to be able to help&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;all sorts of people come along and,\\nyou know, quit eating junk basically.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSo yeah, it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s exciting.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So what kind of people come along to\\nyour seminar&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nis is it mainly men or women or what?\\t\\t\\t\\nWhat&#8217;s the general demographic?\\t\\t\\t\\nYes, it&#8217;s a mixture of people.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s\\nusually the both women and men,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;but I&#8217;d say kind of between their forties\\nand fifties.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But I do often get people who are\\nin the younger years or much older.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSo there is an array,\\t\\t\\t\\nI guess the\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;majority are usually in their forties\\nand fifties.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSo it&#8217;s kind of an interesting\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;point in their life because obviously\\nthey&#8217;ve gone for years of dieting,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you know, losing lots of weight,\\nbut also just put it all back on&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nand been unsuccessful.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So it&#8217;s great\\nbecause they&#8217;ve come to a point&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nwhere they&#8217;re like,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;I need to make a serious change and\\nI want to make this a lifestyle change.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So it&#8217;s wonderful\\nto have that group of people.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Now that&#8217;s the thing, because\\nonce you&#8217;ve been through that binge&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;cycle a few times and the dieting and\\nand you realise that it doesn&#8217;t work,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;then you, you recognize that you need\\na completely different approach.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And that&#8217;s what&#8217;s great about the Alan\\nCarr program is&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;it&#8217;s not a set of recipes\\nfrom the latest celeb, it&#8217;s completely&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;resetting your psychological framework\\naround eating.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nYeah, and is this a lifestyle change?\\t\\t\\t\\nSo we&#8217;re not promoting\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;that kind of documents fallacy\\nor about counting calories as actually&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;undoing years of brainwashing\\nsurrounding what we view what junkies&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nand the kind\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;of undoing diet mentality\\nthat you must lose&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;as much weight as soon as possible\\nin order to be successful.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It&#8217;s actually kind of just drawn you back\\nto a more natural way of eating and&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;inspiring a lifestyle change\\nthat you can live this way&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;for the rest of your life\\nand enjoy it too.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So when I refers to Ban Sugar, it&#8217;s\\nkind of talking about refined&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;sugars,\\nprocessed and starchy carbs as well.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So most people think, oh, it&#8217;s\\nthis sugary items that are an issue,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;but actually it could be\\nthings are savoury to processed.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But what you would wouldn&#8217;t associate\\nwith sugary items like,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nI guess, breads, pasta,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;things like that,\\nthey are all processed and can cause you&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and then an issue in the form of bad\\nsugar addiction.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSo yeah, when I talk about brown sugar.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It&#8217;s not just overtly sugary items,\\nbut it is also,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you know, starchy,\\nprocessed carbs as well.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd it&#8217;s kind of undoing that brainwashing\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;that we need them\\nin order to enhance our lives in some way.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And by not having them, you&#8217;re missing out\\nin some way.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;You know, people feel like it&#8217;s a way\\nof connecting with family, friends or,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nyou know,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;it&#8217;s it&#8217;s to help you\\nthrough the stresses of life&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;or to comfort you\\nor when you&#8217;re feeling low.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nSo brown sugar kind of gets all these,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you know, all sorts of credit\\nfor all sorts of things.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But actually, in reality,\\nit doesn&#8217;t do any of those things.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nAnd Shorten does the very opposite.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It&#8217;s just just keeps you\\nin that addiction trap.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So is your aim\\nto reduce the intake of bad sugar&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nor is it to eliminate it completely?\\t\\t\\t\\nYes, to it to remove that\\t\\t\\t\\ndesire to have it at all so that if you\\t\\t\\t\\nso that you can eat\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;more wholesome foods, foods\\nthat are easily digestible&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;give you the lovely news\\nthat your body is actually yearning for&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;and gives you the real energy\\nand vibrancy.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So basically fruit,\\nvegetables, nuts and seeds.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But you know,\\nyou don&#8217;t to be a vegan for this to work.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And I&#8217;m certainly not\\npromoting veganism at all.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But if you want to be a vegan,\\nthat&#8217;s great.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;If you don&#8217;t totally, you can be totally\\nsuccessful without becoming.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;So you can continue to eat\\nthings like meat, fish, dairy&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nand be absolutely fine.\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;But it is about inspiring and encouraging\\nthe bulk of what you&#8217;re eating&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;is going to be primary foods,\\nfruits, vegetables and things like that.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And the idea is to completely remove\\nthat desire for junk food&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nso that you can go on about your day.\\t\\t\\t\\nChoosing the foods,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;give you the real energy\\nyour body&#8217;s body is yearning for.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And what are the results\\nthat you&#8217;re achieving?&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;What&#8217;s the feedback\\nlike from the seminars?&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;Yeah,\\nso generally I&#8217;ve had people who said&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\nthat they feel more energised,\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you know, just you know,\\nnot having to experience these mood swings&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;that they thought previously were normal\\nand, and every everyday part of their life&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;they&#8217;ve discovered that they do\\nenjoy certain fruits that they thought&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;they didn&#8217;t enjoy before,\\nbut because they were eating junk,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;they couldn&#8217;t actually taste the lovely,\\nwonderful tastes of fruit and vegetables.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;And then I guess there&#8217;s the, you know,\\nthe the external changes like weight loss.&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;It&#8217;s often I&#8217;ll get somebody say\\nthey&#8217;ve lost two stones or,&#8221;\\t\\t\\t\\n&#8220;you know, however\\nmuch 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