Quit Snacks Like Addicts Quit Drugs: QUIT

By Michael Alvear

What if you could break your addiction to snacking with a technique used to get people off drugs?

 

The psychological approaches in this book, developed by drug treatment centers, will stop you from snacking on things like potato chips, pretzels, Cheetos and corn chips without suffering or feeling deprived.

 

After breaking his addiction to the benzodiazepine Klonopin with the help of an addiction specialist, author Michael Alvear asked him a revelatory question: 

 

Could the same technique that got me off Klonopin get me off snacks? 

 

The addiction expert guided the author through the process and the next thing he knew he had quit snacking the way he quit drugs.  It was at that moment he realized it was possible to lose weight with techniques stolen from disciplines outside of the dieting industry. 

 

This book is his step-by-step guide you can use to liberate yourself from snacking. Download it today and start freeing yourself tomorrow.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Woodpecker Media
• Release date: Oct 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201311650

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A wellness strategy that changes the way you think about food. Alvear’s writing style and the structure of his book make for an easy read and, more importantly, easy use in daily life.

—Kirkus Reviews

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INTRODUCTION

Can the same techniques that get people off drugs get you off snacks?

The answer is yes and I’m going to show you how the gold standard in drug treatment addiction applies to any snack food you’re hooked on. But first, let’s set up the context for what we’re about to do. We are going to borrow techniques developed in one discipline (Addiction Medicine) and apply them to another (weight loss).

Like medicines that work on conditions they weren’t meant to treat, we’re going to make off-label use of addiction science to fix problems (like binging on snacks) it wasn’t originally designed to solve.

Off-label use is most often associated with medicine, but the concept is used everywhere. In business, they’re called cross-industry innovations—solutions developed in one industry that address problems in unrelated industries. For example, the Japanese bullet train was inspired by the shape of a bird’s beak. BMW built a drive system invented by the video gaming industry.

It happens in science, too. For example, discoveries in chemistry helped Pasteur, a microbiologist, develop a vaccination for polio. They’re called cross-science innovations.

My first introduction to adapting and using off-label, or cross-science, solutions for weight loss occurred while I was under the care of a psychiatrist. I was hooked on the benzodiazepine Klonopin. To get me off the drug, my therapist used a technique first developed by the trailblazing psychiatrist Joseph Volpe. After successfully ending my addiction, I asked the psychiatrist a question he hadn’t expected:

Could the same technique that got me off Klonopin get me off potato chips?

Hmm, the psychiatrist said, rubbing his chin. I never thought about applying the same technique to snacks. He agreed to guide me through the process and the next thing I knew I had quit snacks the way I quit drugs.

It was at that