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  • Smart Phone Dumb Phone

  • Free Yourself from Digital Addiction
  • By: Allen Carr
  • Narrated by: Jot Davies
  • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (59 ratings)

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Smart Phone Dumb Phone

By: Allen Carr
Narrated by: Jot Davies
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Summary

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.

©2019 Allen Carr's Easyway (International) Limited (P)2019 Arcturus Digital Limited
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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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It really is easy!

This book helped me stop being a digital addict and become a happy user of smart devices.

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Feeling pretty good after reading this book

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.

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This book just have to be read

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!

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it includes gaming addiction

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

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

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.

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Easy Way really is the only way

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!

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I quit YouTube!

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.

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Very repetitive

This could easily be distilled into a 2 hour audiobook. Painfully slow with lots of repetition. I got so bored listening to it that I started smoking, I’m currently half way through Quit Smoking the easy way, which is driving me to drink, luckily I think he’s got a book for that as well.

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90% Repetition, 10% Inspiration

Honestly would not recommend this. I found that it got better the more I listened, but so much of it was really repetitive and somewhat condescending. I don't regret having listened and I did end it feeling inspired, but I do think I was just not the intended audience as someone whose life isn't completely ruined by digital addiction, I was just looking to develop a slightly healthier relationship. There are better books out there, but if you're really struggling admitting you have a problem, then this might be for you!

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Feels like 95% padding

It really felt you could have summarised this in 1 short chapter. Endless sections telling us what we probably already know before you actually are informed how you go about it. The tips make sense but it took a long time to get there.

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