Alcohol Lied to Me: How to Stop Drinking and Get the Real You Back

Two bottles of wine a night. Every single night. And not once in twenty years did Craig Beck consider himself an alcoholic.

He had the lovely house, the two children, the successful media career, the directorships, even a stint as trustee of a major children's charity. From the outside, everything looked enviable. On the inside, he was fighting a war he kept losing in private, behind the smile he wore for the school run and the boardroom.

If you are reading this, you already know that war. You have tried the dry months. You have banned spirits, banned weekdays, banned every drink except the ones on "special occasions," and watched in quiet horror as a Tuesday afternoon somehow qualified. You have made the promise. You have broken the promise. You have hated yourself for breaking it, and then poured another glass to silence the noise.

That is not weakness. That is the trap working exactly as it was designed to work. Willpower was never going to save you, because willpower is fighting the wrong enemy.
What Craig discovered, slowly and almost by accident, was that everything he believed about alcohol was a lie. Not a small lie. A carefully constructed, beautifully marketed, century-old lie that keeps intelligent, successful people pouring poison into their own glass and calling it a reward. Once he saw the lie clearly, something strange happened. He did not have to fight the drink anymore. He simply did not want it. The craving did not have to be conquered. It quietly let go.

In this book, he walks you through the exact same process, step by step, with the warmth of a friend and the bluntness of a man who has been where you are sitting right now.

The Craig Beck method is different:
No need to call yourself an alcoholic A permanent cure, not a lifetime of white-knuckled struggle No church halls, no group confessions, no expensive rehab No humiliation, no pain, no willpower Treats the source of the problem, not the symptoms
Alcohol Lied to Me has already freed thousands of readers from a habit they thought was permanent. It has topped bestseller charts in multiple languages and quietly become one of the most recommended books in the recovery space, mostly because the people it helps cannot stop telling their friends.

This newly updated third edition includes two brand new chapters.

You do not need another promise to yourself. You need the truth.