What is Allen Carr’s Easyway?
Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking Live Group Seminars are a cognitive behavioural therapy (or more accurately a cognitive restructuring/retraining therapy). The method was devised in London where the organisation’s global headquarters remain (in SW20).
The method is:
Clinically Proven – Two recently published Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) have indicated that Allen Carr’s Easyway Live Group Seminars are at least as effective, if not more so, than the NHS Gold Standard Stop Smoking Service consisting of pharmacological products plus six weeks of 1-1 psychological support and nearly twice as effective as the Republic of Ireland Health Service’s Quit.ie service (details in appendices). In addition to this, studies published in peer reviewed journals indicate a success rate of over 50% after 12 months.
Entirely Drug-Free – No medication, NRT, e-cigarettes or other substitutes are required.
100% Safe – Over the last 35+ years, ACE has helped an estimated 50 million smokers quit without any contraindications which indicates that there are no ill effects of using the programme (also indicated in a large scale, gold standard RCT).
A Trusted Method –
- Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking Live Group Seminars have been around for over 35 years and are extremely popular with the general public & celebrities alike.
- Operates in 50+ countries
- Continue to work with Vitality Health Insurance after more than 10 years helping their policy holders to quit smoking
- Have been featured in the national media frequently for 35+ years
- Global corporate clients include Google, Facebook, Mercer, Vodafone, Mercedes, Ford, Total Oil, Esso, IBM, Microsoft
- Recommendations and endorsements from scientists, doctors, and millions of happy ex-smokers.
Quick –
It usually takes only one 5-hour Live Online Group Seminar via Zoom for a smoker to be helped to quit. After care includes:
- Telephone/email support
- Zoom back up seminars designed specifically for those who failed to quit in the first seminar
- Regular supportive & inspirational text and email messages for 6 months post-quit
Easy to Deliver – The Live Group Seminar is accessed via smartphone, tablet, laptop, or PC and no special equipment or software is required.
Inclusive – Smokers who live or work together can all access the programme at the same time and the method has proven effective for even hard to reach groups – clinical trials indicated that the method was highly effective regardless of whether the smoker was college educated or not, a heavy or light smoker, a young or old smoker.
What happens at a seminar?
The seminar is like a training day and lasts for around 5-6 hours. You’ll be in a group of up to 15 smokers – people just like you – so you won’t be on your own. You watch the presentation and speak to the presenter and the other attendees on Zoom and it can all be done using a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer. It’s really easy to do this and you can even try it out in advance with the friendly Allen Carr’s Easyway customer service team who will guide you through how it works.
The seminar works for smokers, vapers, and those who both smoke and vape – so unless you’ve already stopped smoking/vaping – do carry on as usual, without trying to cut down or control your smoking, right up until the end of the seminar. There will be frequent breaks for smoking throughout the seminar so don’t forget to have plenty of cigarettes and vape on you.
The seminar presenter is an experienced Allen Carr’s Easyway therapist who successfully used the method to quit smoking themselves.
There aren’t any health lectures or photos of smokers lungs or anything like that – you know all about that kind of stuff already – instead you’ll be helped to identify and understand the reasons why you smoke in spite of all the obvious disadvantages.
The seminar will answer every possible question you might have about smoking and quitting smoking:
- Is it a habit or an addiction?
- How much of the problem is physical and how much of it is mental?
- How to avoid weight gain when you quit?
- Why you won’t have to stop drinking when you quit?
- How to avoid being one of those moany and grumpy ex-smokers
- Will you still be able to relax when you quit?
- How will you handle stress when you quit?
- Will you still be able to concentrate as a non-smoker?
- What about if your partner or friends continue to smoke?
- Is your problem “stopping” or “staying stopped”
- How to avoid feeling anxious or depressed when you quit?
- Can you replace the treat or reward of smoking?
- Will you miss cigarette breaks?
- What about your “me time”?
- What to do with your hands when you quit?
- What if you smoke to be rebellious?
- Why will it be easy this time – unlike previous times?
- What if you have a big day or big party coming up?
- What are the things you feel you’re going to miss about smoking?
- How to make it feel like freedom rather than like losing a friend
- Any other question or concern that you can think of
The seminar climaxes with a ritual final cigarette followed by a 20-minute hypnotherapy session. This is just a light relaxation exercise that reinforces the main points of the session and is always a pleasant and calm experience and is effective even for people who have been unsuccessful with hypnotherapy before. There isn’t any “going under” or loss of control – it’s just a nice relaxing end to the seminar.
You’ll end the seminar a happy non-smoker without any need for aids or substitutes. No nicotine gum, patches, lozenges, tabs, inhalators, nasal sprays, or e-cigarettes! The method is 100% drug-free.
The seminar removes any feelings of “missing out”, leaving you in the right frame and by following some simple instructions you’ll find that it’s easy to stop smoking – when you know how.
