NICE have issued guidance recommending that NHS/Local Authority Smoking Cessation Services should make Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking Live Group Seminars available to all smokers as a drug-free alternative to existing options such as nicotine replacement therapy, Bupropion, Varenicline, and nicotine-containing e-cigarettes.

The NICE ‘Guideline on Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence (August 2022 update)’ paves the way for all local authority smoking cessation services to offer Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking Live Group Seminars as an exciting, A-list celebrity endorsed, clinically proven, easy-to-access, drug-free alternative to their current offerings.

NICE found that the Allen Carr’s Easyway Live Group Seminars were not only cost-effective but cost-saving when compared to existing treatments and that the evidence proving the effectiveness of the method is comparable to that which exists for ‘nicotine e-cigarettes’ which maintain the addiction.

UK-based Allen Carr’s Easyway, celebrating the 40^th Anniversary of its conception next year, already has a proven track record of providing live group seminars as part of UK local authority smoking cessation services after conducting a number of successful pilots over the past two years – with more local authorities already commissioning their services as a result.

The Easyway live seminars, which can be taken “in the room” or via Zoom, comprise of a live presentation of the method delivered by a former smoker who used the method to quit themselves. This fully trained facilitator guides smokers through a process described as ‘cognitive restructuring’, helping smokers understand why they smoke and how their addiction to nicotine creates a flawed belief system – a system that not only keeps them hooked, and discourages them from attempting to stop, but also causes immense discomfort and difficulty when they do attempt to quit.

Once that flawed belief system is fully understood, smokers can actually enjoy the process of getting free from smoking. Most need just a single 5-6 hour seminar to succeed, but shorter back up sessions are available for the few that require them, along with post-seminar telephone, email, & text message support. The seminars are equally effective regardless of whether they are attended “in the room” or via Zoom.

We would like to say a big thank you to the local authorities, the public and the corporates who we have helped because after winning Best Wellbeing Provider in 2022 we have been shortlisted for 2023 (finalists to be announced in 2023). We are proud to be recognised for helping smokers but also drinkers, those with drug issues, gambling as well as many other issues and addictions.

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