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Giving up booze - almost entirely
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I find a really nice cup of tea and something to do with your hands helps.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by vetran View PostI find a really nice cup of tea and something to do with your hands helps.- The meaning of life is to give life meaning
- Worrying about tomorrow spoils today
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Originally posted by ChimpMaster View Post
So how can I do this? How can I get over the need for a drink every evening? Won't life be ever so difficult, stressful and boring without it?
Plus you should be more relaxed as well.
Edited to say: I actually drink more if I haven't committed to something e.g. a run or am injured, and I have family who have basically given up drinking due to the sports they do.Last edited by SueEllen; 30 December 2016, 23:07."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by DannyF1966 View PostThat's certainly one way to get banned from all the local boozers.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by ChimpMaster View PostI drink too much. I know that. Not massively in binges, but regularly like a couple of pints and a couple of big shots (whiskey or rum or vodka + a mixer) every evening. It's my excuse for relaxation and it really helps to deal with the wife and kids and the general end-of-day de-stress, or as I see it anyway. It makes me feel relaxed, to forget about the S-H-I-T.
But of course it's just a distraction. The buzz is not real and so the continual need to do this is a barrier to moving on and a barrier to improving myself and my life.
I need to stop drinking. I want to stop drinking. But I don't know if I can do it because it's part of my routine and I'm used to having a drink every evening. And frankly I really enjoy it.
So how can I do this? How can I get over the need for a drink every evening? Won't life be ever so difficult, stressful and boring without it?Comment
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I'm coming up to my one year anniversary of no drinking. I tended to binge to relax/numb the pain of everyday existence. Friday night would be a couple of bottles of wine and then a hangover the next day. During the week I'd sometimes drink a whole bottle in a night.
I decided to stop because the hangovers meant that I wasn't spending quality time with my young daughter the next day and, frankly, it was a stupid way of destressing.
I found it reasonably straight forward. I've moved away from the mates I grew up with. I live in Australia now so there's no catching up with an old friend over 10 pints.
If you're just drinking at home then you'll need to knuckle down for a month or so and then, hopefully, it's just a new routine after that.
The hardest part I've found are social occasions where everyone is drinking polite, respectable amounts and you're sitting there with a fizzy water looking like a berk.
Giving it up has certainly been positive. It's not some amazing nirvana but it's been good. Not sure if I will start drinking again ever actually. Having a couple of glasses is just boring for me and with a family now and not being 21 having a couple of bottles kills the next day. So I think I'd prefer to just have none.Comment
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I was in a similar place to the OP. My drinking was routine rather than excessive. But by being routine it no longer felt like a treat to have a couple of beers.
So now I restrict my drinking to Fri/Sat/Sun evenings. I will drink as much as I want on those nights but curiously I rarely find I want more than one or twoComment
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6 years now with little drinking. Alcohol is a depressant anyway. I rarely miss it.
Smoking I gave up 28 years ago and I still miss it. Evil stuff. Good luck!Comment
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