How Do I Stop Drinking Alcohol?

   It's all up to your will, man! Many talented and healthy people are ruined by alcohol. Search the Internet for stories of alcoholics who ruined their lives and think - do you want to end up like that? Patrick Swayze - a great actor, handsome, rich ... but drinking brought him pancreatic cancer and nothing could save him. Alcohol is not a friend and does not solve your problems, it only deepens them and creates new ones. Instead of drinking, focus your free time on learning the language! Even if you don't stay there, knowing the language won't hurt you. And stop partying, stop listening to your father. Prove yourself as a real man. Real men don't solve their drinking problems.

   Author, don't worry! I had an acquaintance who also really wanted to stop drinking and he still couldn't. But he brought in a liter of vodka a night. At age 51, he suffered a stroke and refused to drink again. So don't force yourself to try something that doesn't work. Let nature do its job. An acquaintance of mine lived for a whole week after the stroke and then died. He said he made a living and must have been right. He liked to brag about how a liter of brandy went to work the next day. He had all the serious, health problems, and he wanted to quit, or at least reduce his drinking, after which he would drink a liter and a half of concentrate. So, author, don't worry that you can't stop drinking for a long time, your body will refuse it on its own.

   Look now, you have a problem, and a very serious one. That with the anonymous left it, there's a little brainwashing, like everything American. Get rid of the psychiatrists, too, because they'll stuff you with a cocktail and you'll go up and down like a zombie. It's all in your head. In reality, a person does not need alcohol to relax, to become better, or to become more beautiful. Alcohol, by the way, is a terrible depressant. In any case, it has happened to you to get drunk, to be in euphoria, and the next day you feel like exploding, not because your head hurts or your stomach hurts, but because of such nasty thoughts, which make you sink lower and lower. You say to yourself at one point, wait for me to hit one to stabilize and you go into a whirlpool from which there is no escape. Not in vain is alcoholism as a disease of the psyche, and social illness. You, as an alcoholic as you naturally are, must first accept this, not drive it to the bottom of your mind. This should come first. You're an alcoholic, and that's it. As nasty as it sounds, that's right. By the way, the first sign of alcoholism is denial, so do a careful revision of your mind and you'll see for yourself that I'm right. So, now a little about how to give up alcohol. This is the ONLY way. No drugs, no brainwashing, no group therapies. You accept that you are an alcoholic. You don't hide it, it's not a shame. Illness, like everyone else. You find a hobby and start practicing it. When you finish even a beer, you immediately find some other activity that will keep your brain busy and not think about alcohol. Always keep alcohol in a prominent place at home, to see it, but never smell it for any reason. It is important to know that even one sip of alcohol for an alcoholic like you is FATAL. You return to the starting position with new strength. You will feel that when you stop drinking, you will TOTALLY start looking at the world around you in a different way. In the morning, when you go out to work, you will listen to the birds singing, you will enjoy the fresh air, you will watch the greenery. All things you didn't pay attention to until then. And the most important thing is to understand that alcohol has no benefits, only harm. It's all in your head and you're an alcoholic. These are your starting points. I am writing you everything, not because I am an outspoken sober man, but on the contrary, because I am also struggling with this problem, but I have made significant progress, explaining everything to myself after years of hellish torment. I sincerely wish you success !!! but never smell it for any reason. It is important to know that even one sip of alcohol for an alcoholic like you is FATAL. You return to the starting position with new strength. You will feel that when you stop drinking, you will TOTALLY start looking at the world around you in a different way. In the morning, when you go out to work, you will listen to the birds singing, you will enjoy the fresh air, you will watch the greenery. All things you didn't pay attention to until then. And the most important thing is to understand that alcohol has no benefits, only harm. It's all in your head and you're an alcoholic. These are your starting points. I am writing you everything, not because I am an outspoken sober man, but on the contrary, because I am also struggling with this problem, but I have made significant progress, explaining everything to myself after years of hellish torment. I sincerely wish you success !!! but never smell it for any reason. It is important to know that even one sip of alcohol for an alcoholic like you is FATAL. You return to the starting position with new strength. You will feel that when you stop drinking, you will TOTALLY start looking at the world around you in a different way. In the morning, when you go out to work, you will listen to the birds singing, you will enjoy the fresh air, you will watch the greenery. All things you didn't pay attention to until then. And the most important thing is to understand that alcohol has no benefits, only harm. It's all in your head and you're an alcoholic. These are your starting points. I am writing you everything, not because I am an outspoken sober man, but on the contrary, because I am also struggling with this problem, but I have made significant progress, explaining everything to myself after years of hellish torment. I sincerely wish you success !!!

   the only way - is to forget about any alcohol, but for no reason, and even a sip

   I don't want to judge you because this is the worst service I can do you at the moment. However, you are an alcoholic, still working and functioning, but that's it. I can also tell you the sequence of losses you will go through - first the job, then the family, then the friends you don't drink with, and finally the parents. The positive thing in your case is that you are on the right track to understand that you have a serious problem. This is a disease called alcohol dependence. Her treatment is difficult and requires persistence. Failures are normal during treatment. Seek specialized help. At this stage, you will not recover on your own. It's like trying to do heart surgery yourself. You also need someone to support you from your loved ones - call him a friend, boyfriend, parent or wife / children. The latter, if you don't have them, is the most successful, as long as they are on your side. And don't forget one thing - you drink and you can't stop. Temporary withdrawal periods do not mean much if they do not last at least a year. This is the period that speaks of expected success. The other is failures that only speak to your advanced illness.

   Painfully familiar story and I'm the same thing only that I'm much younger than you. I'm 24 and in the last few months I've only been able to stick to beer, but that's not a solution either. I managed not to lick any alcohol a year ago, but then from a beer my drunkenness returned in full force. Let me tell you, the consequences of alcohol are not only on our health, they also affect our social life and the people who love us, we destroy everything around us and everyone who cares about us and tries to help us. Countless times I told myself and promised myself after a heavy binge that I would stop drinking forever, and a few hours later I didn't even remember my promise and started all over again. The worst thing about all this crap is when you dump everyone because of your drinking, and those around you form a bad opinion. In my case, because my colleagues (I am a student) know what kind of goods I am and do not take me anywhere with them, and for example people take trips around Bulgaria on weekends, the work is the same and with social contacts I want to meet a new colleague. , but once your name comes out that you are a drunkard, garbage and what are you then go, explain that you are not like that. The situation is not rosy for us, but only we are to blame and only we can help each other, no one has forced us to raise the glass and for our smallest problems to seek solace in alcohol, because and at the bottom of the bottle we will not find a solution to our problems. There is no tomorrow from today, here and now, today I decided not to drink, I just said to myself that today I will not pick up the first glass that will lead me to the bottle, from personal experience I tell you that we can do without one,

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   If you don't tighten up, they will kick you, I even wonder how they put up with you and then what you will do. Your father bought you a vodka, went through Pirogov, and you still didn't realize it. If you are smart enough, just do not put a folder of alcohol in your mouth, do not be tempted by treats and only one and never again, do not waste your life, because tomorrow you may find yourself on the street, dragging like the lowest tremor and therefore will it's all your fault. My acquaintance with serious alcohol problems realized at the age of 60, after you postponed giving up for years, he would die like a dog in hellish pain after another crisis and then something happened to him, he vowed not to drink and lived the hell of drinking month, we didn't know what was happening to him, it turned out that he had fallen into such crises that he had turned the whole house upside down, he had been lying on the floor for days, moments were lost and after a month he began to stabilize. His complexion and eyes became clear, he walked with a smile, and when we asked him how he managed to do that, he told with tears in his eyes about this one month and how much he regretted all this 30-40 years of drinking with "friends". And he had problems, his father absorbed, ie, family burdens, other problems and lifelong excuses.

   Up to №1, I agree with what you wrote, but to some extent. Don't blame the author for this pancreatic cancer, because what you wrote about pancreatic cancer is absolutely wrong. Pancreatic cancer does not occur as a result of excessive alcohol consumption. The most you can get from excessive alcohol consumption is chronic pancreatitis or a cyst of the pancreas, as well as cirrhosis of the liver. Pancreatic cancer is caused by genetic mutations. I'm not writing this to annoy, but because my loved one got pancreatic cancer without licking alcohol and without having smoked a single cigarette in her life. My personal friend, an abdominal surgeon, one of the luminaries of abdominal surgery in Bulgaria, a lecturer at the largest medical university in Bulgaria, operates on it, so in this regard I know about this thing.

   And I'm like the author. I am 32 years old.