Quitting Alcohol

[ItsOKImAPilot]

Sounds like you're up the duff imo.

Thought about that but I feel likeI would know by now. This has been going on for a little while.

 

[Gladystweet]

I'm quite lucky that I've always been able to take or leave a drink. Drank heavily in my younger years, and especially when I started playing Saturday/Sunday league, but more out of peer pressure than anything else.
I always knew my limit, that's not to say I scrambled me brain a few times, but most times I knew when to stop.
I have the odd beer in the house, but usually to go with food, and have never been a fan of spirits.
To repeat what others have said, if you're not an alcoholic, or have health issues, or turn in to a maniac after a drink...don't worry about it too much. Know your limits and try to remember what hangovers feel like..that's your brain telling you that it's swollen and can't fit in you skull.

 

[Joey66]

....I'm a social drinker, I like a pint in good company and would never think of trying to give that bit of enjoyment up. I would never have a drink sitting at home alone.

Or like me a diabetic I had to give it up have two shandys a year do miss it , but health is more important!

 

[Eggs]

Or like me a diabetic I had to give it up have two shandys a year do miss it , but health is more important!

....absolutely, Joey.

 

[degsy]

So I have recently stopped drinking alcohol altogether and am actually concerned with how hard it is. I never considered any kind of dependence on it because I never thought about drinking. We would enjoy a beer or two while grilling or some wine with dinner which never seemed like a bad thing.

I have recently just stopped with it all and it's been rather hard. No red wine with steak, no beer with a cheeseburger, etc. It scares me a bit. Has anyone gone through this?

31st Aug...easier than I thought, but harder in ways I never thought of. The depressing thing is I don't feel that much better. Though tbf, I don't actually know my Liver's views on this.

 

[zandvoort blue]

I have Oktoberfest in Munich on Wednesday- not a good week to quit drinking...

Although I have done Dry July's etc, and I have no problem to lay off it when in training for something. The odd bottle or pint is fine, in my book. It's too much a part of my work culture to lay off having a pint now and again. Would not want to quit wholesale but admire those with the willpower to do it (like my missus).

Good luck in your quest, @ItsOKImAPilot !

 

[Milk]

Reading about Kenny Samson is enough to put anyone off the booze.

And Gazza

 

[degsy]

Christ young kids + hangover would probbaly throw me totally over the edge
As a sufferer of depression i feel like it does tend to feed into my drinking; alcohol can turn a day that is a solid uncopeable grey into almost a rainbow of sadness that i can live out - it really does let you tap your emotions when you just feel numb and tiny against this massive thing taking over your life

I tend to do a lot of my best writing sauced
A lot of my best crying too

'Write drunk if you must, but always edit sober.' Raymond Chandler.

 

[coollino]

Reading about Kenny Samson is enough to put anyone off the booze.

And Gazza

But that doesn't mean it's going happen to you

 

[degsy]

Unless you're a recovering alcoholic, I don't see the point in 'giving up alcohol'. If you want a drink, have a drink. If you've not had one for a while, and then have one. Who cares?

Same with smoking, people who claim to have 'given in' when they have a single cig on a night out - it's just a cig, it doesn't mean you've started smoking again or fallen off the wagon.

I'm that sort...do stuff, to excess or regular come rain or shine; like drink, smoke, golf, write short stories, collect matchboxes, hobbies that take over your life...then stop, no taper off, no patches... just don't do it anymore

But some people aren't like that...and there in lies the problem

 

[GwladysBlue]

I drank about 10 pints of Stella last night and it has made me consider never drinking again.

Didn't realise how ruthless Stella is.

 

[bol-uk]

Today I can wholeheartedly say I'm going to stop drinking for a while. I used to be tee total and can honestly say that nights out are no more fun when drinking than when not. Drinking just adds a headache the following day.

I'm going to post my efforts here daily for accountability.

I am sorry but, I cannot agree. When I have January off I have to stay in, nothing worse than being around people getting drunk when you are sat drinking lemonade trying to enjoy it. Thats me at least

 

[Deleted member 28206]

I have great sympathy for those who have drink problems and have to pay such a massive amount of tax on top of it. Hate the government.

 

[Donald Twain]

I packed the stuff in hours ago!

 

[Goonymook]

The personal issue for me in curtailing my boozing, is that large aspects of my social life are rooted in consuming alcohol. Which can make it challenging.