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Smart Phone Dumb Phone

Free Yourself from Digital Addiction

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Do you pull out your phone at every idle moment? Do hours slip away as you mindlessly scroll? Has your smartphone added a level of detachment between you and the outside world?

Sadly technology which should be a wonderful boon to us has started to blight our lives. The average adult spends nearly 10 hours a day looking at digital screens, leading to unprecedented levels of stress, isolation, procrastination and inertia. The fact is that digital dependence is an addiction and should be treated as such.

Allen Carr's Easyway is a breath of fresh air when it comes to addiction treatment. Tried and tested as an incredibly successful stop-smoking method, its principles have since been applied to other addictions such as alcohol, gambling and caffeine with outstanding results. Here, for the first time, the Easyway method has been used to overcome digital addiction, and it really works!

Smart Phone Dumb Phone rewires our relationship to technology. By unravelling the brainwashing process behind our addictive behaviour, we are freed from dependence and can reassert control over our time and productivity. Including 20 practical steps to help you along your way, this wonderful guide will release you from the clutches of your smartphone and allow you to live in the moment. It truly is the easyway.

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"The Allen Carr method has helped millions quit smoking. Now its experts are determined to tackle our obsession with digital devices." (Daily Express)
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This book helped me overcome my addiction to YouTube. I went from spending 13 hours a day on the site to nothing.

I did have to listen to the book a couple of times to really internalise the ideas. I still thought I was getting something out of YouTube when I finished the book the first time. By the second time I knew the truth. It has now been three months and I have no intention of going back on it!

Only caveats for this book, It was written pre-TikTok so some problems aren't addressed as thoroughly as they could be. The book also should be listed to at 1.3x speed.

Overall, totally worth it. I'd pay double for this book knowing how much it helped me.

I quit YouTube!

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What can I say, big fan of all Allen Carr books but this one is in my opinion the best of all. Truly great design, I was afraid to finish but the book is structured in such a way that whenever fear popped up I was already on the chapter which explained everything about it. Most of all, I’m free!

This book just have to be read

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It works !! Follow the instruction and you are free . I was increasingly speeding more and more time playing futile games on my phone and I am ashamed to say spending hundreds of pounds for extra lives . It filled me with self loathing. I had tried to stop but kept slipping back in to old habit. This book broke that cycle with none of the pain or withdrawal I had experienced in the past . Liberating. If you think you might have digital addiction or even if you don't. Have a listen . Good narration. Well recorded.

It really is the easy way to break the chain of addiction

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I have used Allen Carr's Easy Way to easily and fully live as a non drinker of alcohol, non consumer of caffeine and non emotional eater. This was a spleasant suprise to come across, and only two days after completion I feel the same amazing results with no compulsive checking phone, social media, no itch to open youtube. Thank you

great extension of allen carr method

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I used Allen Carr to quit junk food and it worked so well I decided to repeat the process with digital junk too. It’s only been a few days but for the first time in a decade I’ve been forgetting where I left my phone! I really started to resent how much I seemed to use my phone for comfort, boredom and all the things that I actually needed to go through to be a complete person. Thank you.

Fantastic update for our latest addictions

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