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Smart Phone Dumb Phone

Free Yourself from Digital Addiction

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Smart Phone Dumb Phone

By: Allen Carr
Narrated by: Jot Davies
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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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Critic reviews

"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 stop being a digital addict and become a happy user of smart devices.

It really is easy!

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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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The title doesn't do this book justice.
it's more than just phones. it's covers gaming, and work life balance.

The narrators voice is a bit dry and robotic at times. but the contents worth it.

I'd highly recommend the book for anyone who finds themselves spending too much time on pointless apps or games

it includes gaming addiction

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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’ve always made passive attempts to curb my “junk” internet usage. Website blockers, timers, pomadoro timers, you name it I’ve probably done it. The thing is the usage always creeps up again.
I’ve already done a lot of things - I don’t have any games or useless apps on my phone, I banned access to certain time wasting websites. Instead of using my phone, I just opened up my laptop to use time wasting websites instead.
This week I’ve been feeling kind of down about it - I waste so much time when I should be doing work, or engaging in my hobbies, but instead I’m refreshing certain websites, waiting for something to happen, then being disappointed. It gets to complete ridiculousness. I won’t play video games I enjoy because I’m too busy staring at websites that I know deep down I’m not enjoying.
I think this book was the final piece of the puzzle I needed to finally help me kick the bad habits. Listened to two hours yesterday and started to feel differently about my device usage, today I finished it off and I’ve honestly had my best day at work…maybe ever.
Time will tell if this book is permanent as it claims, but it’s definitely worth listening to it you feel like you’re ready to make some real change to your device usage.
Narrator is very pleasant to listen to which enhances the whole thing.
If I did have a complaint it’s that it’s a bit waffle-y at times, but overall the book was good enough that it didn’t spoil it.

Feeling pretty good after reading this book

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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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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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This is an essential listen for anyone who genuinely wants to escape the constant lure of mobile devices. It perhaps feels a little more drawn out than it needs to be at times. However, those who choose to persevere should come out of it with the tools and mindset to make some huge improvements to their life. Highly recommended!

Easy Way really is the only way

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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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The book is 90% an advertisement for itself, droning over and over again about how no other way will work, and only this book holds the key to success, how you MUST get all the way to the end because the technique is like a combination to a safe and you need every number, etc. etc... For a book about how phones manipulate you onto spending more time on their apps, it brazenly employs crude techniques to keep you reading to the end.
As for the content? There's almost no concrete advice, and very few of the descriptions of phone addiction actually resonated with my experience. I got the impression that very little research has been done in the writing of this book. The author also detests gaming of all varieties, and thinks it's only for children, which comes across to me as clueless about video gaming culture and pretty cringey.
Finally, the narrator isn't great, and makes boring repetitive material even more monotonous.
Don't buy it please. Thanks for listening ☺️

Really not good

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