{"id":147105,"date":"2016-03-09T13:57:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T13:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/articles\/stress-and-quit-drugs\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T17:08:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T17:08:21","slug":"stress-and-quit-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allencarr.com\/en-us\/articles\/stress-and-quit-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m under a lot of stress at the moment, should I wait to quit taking drugs?"},"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     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Anyone who believed this would have a desire to take drugs in such situations and that desire to take drugs would make it difficult to quit. But does taking drugs really relieve stress, or is there something else going on?<br><br>Well, if taking drugs relieved stress you could reasonably expect drug users to be able to cope with stress better than non-drug users and this just isn\u2019t the case. In fact, research indicates that drug users are substantially more stressed and suffer far higher levels of anxiety than non-drug users.<br><br>Allen Carr\u2019s Easyway helps you understand the trick that drugs play on the brain. This trick cons the user\u2019s brain into seeing the drug as a stress reliever when in fact it is a stress creator. 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