I'm really happy this came up. --- I did the programme 6 months ago, so I'm fairly new off the course. As the other comment has said, it takes a HUGE amount of effort, but has improved my life greatly. The price can look a bit scary, but if you're willing to put 100% into it YOU WILL see results. You also get 2 days before you have to pay the full sum of money to see if you're getting it or not, which is a great bonus. The belt, atleast in Ireland, isn't used much outside of the course and/or street contacts. It helps you take in a full and fast breath. The course promotes articulate eloquence rather that fluency. Meaning you're going to have 99.9% control over your stutter but you wont sound fluent. It involves a lot of deliberate dis fluency, which is stuttering on purpose, in order to control speech. The other main component apart from that is the breathing. It involves costal breathing, which is deep breathing through the mouth only. It's taught on the programme that the physical cause for stuttering is your diaphragm not working properly when you speak. So you're trained to utilize your intercostal muscles to do most of the work instead, and in turn removing the physical aspects, to a certain extent of course. Using the costal breathing alone works for a certain amount of time until your brain recognizes it as a trick rather than a method, so that's where the stuttering on purpose comes in. You've most likely heard that stuttering is mostly psychological, which means there's a lot of work put into challenging yourself. This includes street contacts, phone contacts, disclosures and public speaking. After a certain period, you begin to avoid less, fear less and therefore become more confident, which in turn leads to the speech being easier to control. It's a lifelong journey though, even the coaches who have been on the programme for 15 years have to put in effort to maintain their eloquence. The number one key to overcoming stuttering, is to change your stuttering habits, and the mcguire programme does just that. I really, really recommend you give it a shot, and by that I mean you devote everything to it. It's life changing. Please PM me if you have further questions. If you actually decide to go through with it please come back and share your experiences here. I know there's a few McGuire folk among the readers on this sub.