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Adele_L comments on Is there a way to stop liking sugar? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Adele_L 11 June 2014 09:44:08PM 3 points [-]

I've been thinking about this problem recently, and one idea I had is to make something like Alan Carr's book The easy way to stop smoking. This book seems to be surprisingly effective at helping people stop smoking, from what I gather, it somehow makes the idea of smoking painfully disgusting and unappealing - I assume it is in the same vein as hypnosis. I was planning on checking it out at the library sometime, and trying to write a sugar version. Perhaps also do some preliminary experiments with hypnosis, to see if it can work for this.

Comment author: bbleeker 11 June 2014 09:55:26PM 4 points [-]

I used Carr's book to stop smoking, worked like a charm (~19 years smoke-free now). He's written a book about dieting too, but that didn't work at all for me.

Comment author: Adele_L 12 June 2014 01:01:40AM 0 points [-]

What was different?

Comment author: bbleeker 12 June 2014 06:56:28AM 1 point [-]

I'm not sure, because I don't remember the diet book very well. But one major difference is that even if you're on a diet, you've still got to eat – you can't just quit food, like you can with cigarettes.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 12 June 2014 08:15:17AM 0 points [-]

even if you're on a diet, you've still got to eat – you can't just quit food

You can. :)

I am waiting for when they start selling outside of US.