I wish you all the best old friend! I stopped drinking to much wine before over a year. I drink 2 beer every evening, but sometimes it is hard to find sleep.
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Quit Alcohol - Support Thread
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I wish you all the best old friend! I stopped drinking to much wine before over a year. I drink 2 beer every evening, but sometimes it is hard to find sleep.
I'm just past 9 months without a drink! Everyone keep it up. Life is easier without booze
still failing to quit..i keep thinking lifes to short to have regrets ..enjoy myself while i can ,,problem is i love a drink with a toke 
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i got sick of renting beer, spinning when i tired to sleep. I had no idea how fuked in the head i was until i was about 3-4 years into sobriety. Alcohol is quite cunning.
Hazy, you are not skaird enough of being that drunk guy that keeps hurting himself, yet.
That is what it took for me. Plus the revenge aspect of not spending a lot of money every day at that little hole in the wall bar. The injured ribs / kidney / whatever it was helped too. Fessing up here and keeping up my post with updates is helping a ton.
I am getting a lot more done now too. But this took a lot of tries and failures. For me there is just not one or two beers, or stopping. Way different just being high vs high and drunk. Turns out though, I am still an asshole, even sober... just not a drunk asshole.
That is what it took for me. Plus the revenge aspect of not spending a lot of money every day at that little hole in the wall bar. The injured ribs / kidney / whatever it was helped too. Fessing up here and keeping up my post with updates is helping a ton.
I am getting a lot more done now too. But this took a lot of tries and failures. For me there is just not one or two beers, or stopping. Way different just being high vs high and drunk. Turns out though, I am still an asshole, even sober... just not a drunk asshole.
Today I have completed 1 year 100% alcohol free. Prior to that, I drank heavily, daily, for 7 years.
I do not attend AA, I don't feel it's necessary for me, what worked for me was medical attention and therapy, as well as medical cannabis and anti-depressants and anti anxiety medicine for my PTSD and major depression.
I consider this a huge victory for me, and I forsee it staying this way. I have no temptation to drink. There is alcohol in my house usually at all times, and I don't ever feel tempted. The other day a neighbor who didn't know I don't drink offered me a beer, and I declined with no desire.
Quitting alcohol was the best thing I ever did in my life. Next goal? Quit cigarettes. That will be a hard one.
My sincere desire of success to all of those who wish to quit drinking or might be struggling to remain sober.
Additionally, if you would like to speak to me privately, for advice, my experience, etc... etc... feel free to send me a PM.
Peace & Love, Plants over Poison
Tetra
I do not attend AA, I don't feel it's necessary for me, what worked for me was medical attention and therapy, as well as medical cannabis and anti-depressants and anti anxiety medicine for my PTSD and major depression.
I consider this a huge victory for me, and I forsee it staying this way. I have no temptation to drink. There is alcohol in my house usually at all times, and I don't ever feel tempted. The other day a neighbor who didn't know I don't drink offered me a beer, and I declined with no desire.
Quitting alcohol was the best thing I ever did in my life. Next goal? Quit cigarettes. That will be a hard one.
My sincere desire of success to all of those who wish to quit drinking or might be struggling to remain sober.
Additionally, if you would like to speak to me privately, for advice, my experience, etc... etc... feel free to send me a PM.
Peace & Love, Plants over Poison
Tetra
Week sober. Was year and a half sober. Drank for few months and lots of bad shit happened. Needed that shadow work to pound the point home harder. Booze is poison. Booze kills life the shrooms said
It's why they pour it on cuts the shrooms say. To kill bacteria. Kills life they say
It's why they pour it on cuts the shrooms say. To kill bacteria. Kills life they say
Congrats on your new week. And you are right, it is poison. Plants over poison, plus there are better more pleasurable and less damaging substances to endulge in if people feel like it. Alcohol is horrible, and I am so thankful and proud of myself for completing 1 year today. Luckily alcohol was never my drug of choice, so the chance of me relapsing is impossible, unless I decide to commit suicide one day, in which case I'd use it as one of my ingredients to do me in.
The way I look at it is, if you experience negative things happening to you whilst drinking, or directly after. You might have a drinking problem.
I have neighbors that are rolling their golf carts and ending up breaking bones. And friends dying due to a failing liver or experiencing head traumas after a fall.
I have neighbors that are rolling their golf carts and ending up breaking bones. And friends dying due to a failing liver or experiencing head traumas after a fall.
Booze may just make a point stronger faster.
The problem may not be the alcohol.
But don't let me take away the whipping boy.
The problem may not be the alcohol.
But don't let me take away the whipping boy.
KingCobra66
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keep it real shawkmon a week leads to more and in no time you will be feeling a lot better congratz on the beginnings of a new life as you say it is poison for some people
Saw a friend roll a riding lawn mower while cutting the grass on a steep enough hillside. Probably alcohol related along with questionable decision making skills,
Wouldn’t have believed it without seeing it, he was driving towards me, mower leaning hard to his left because of the hillside, wearing his cowboy hat, most of his six pack emptied from his mowers cooler.
Got a wild look in his eyes as he realized it was going to tip, but had the wherewithal to hold on good enough and the mower rolled over once back onto it’s wheels, blade still turning.
Eyes bugged out of his head after landing that, don’t think he expected that to turn out as well as it did.
Wouldn’t have believed it without seeing it, he was driving towards me, mower leaning hard to his left because of the hillside, wearing his cowboy hat, most of his six pack emptied from his mowers cooler.
Got a wild look in his eyes as he realized it was going to tip, but had the wherewithal to hold on good enough and the mower rolled over once back onto it’s wheels, blade still turning.
Eyes bugged out of his head after landing that, don’t think he expected that to turn out as well as it did.
Congratulations, you quitters, and even me. I have not had a single beer since the day I quit after Thanksgiving. I do drink a bunch of water now, and I put baking soda in for flavor and alkalinity. I can go hang out at the little local beer bar and not crave beer, just drink a water while there. Playing pool without beer is strange. Cookies and that whip keep my head right.
I had to do this. The injuries were getting worse because I am out of physical shape and old. Now I get a lot more done, spend way less moolah on beer (more on good food), and feel a whole lot better. I figure $30+ a day @ $3/beer + tips, more if I m buying rounds and playing the music, and I really don't have much on common or like those people. Plus maybe 2 hrs+ a day of daytime - unless it is too hot out.
My native "medicine man" doctor was amazed that I was as healthy as I was drinking 20+ beers a day. He says 2 is OK, and the French say a person will live longer drinking a glass of wine a day.
I just can't drink one or two beers, and I am skaird tot start again.
Understand that your brain is making you want to drink, and I think it is for the carbohydrates. Since I have quit drinking beer, I crave those damn carbs, especially in the evening after I have hit the cookies and whip harder.
I had to do this. The injuries were getting worse because I am out of physical shape and old. Now I get a lot more done, spend way less moolah on beer (more on good food), and feel a whole lot better. I figure $30+ a day @ $3/beer + tips, more if I m buying rounds and playing the music, and I really don't have much on common or like those people. Plus maybe 2 hrs+ a day of daytime - unless it is too hot out.
My native "medicine man" doctor was amazed that I was as healthy as I was drinking 20+ beers a day. He says 2 is OK, and the French say a person will live longer drinking a glass of wine a day.
I just can't drink one or two beers, and I am skaird tot start again.
Understand that your brain is making you want to drink, and I think it is for the carbohydrates. Since I have quit drinking beer, I crave those damn carbs, especially in the evening after I have hit the cookies and whip harder.
Exactly. The injuries are a high price to pay. The doc says I got away with it liver-wise, but I don't know how.
Today I have completed 1 year 100% alcohol free. Prior to that, I drank heavily, daily, for 7 years.
I do not attend AA, I don't feel it's necessary for me, what worked for me was medical attention and therapy, as well as medical cannabis and anti-depressants and anti anxiety medicine for my PTSD and major depression.
I consider this a huge victory for me, and I forsee it staying this way. I have no temptation to drink. There is alcohol in my house usually at all times, and I don't ever feel tempted. The other day a neighbor who didn't know I don't drink offered me a beer, and I declined with no desire.
Quitting alcohol was the best thing I ever did in my life. Next goal? Quit cigarettes. That will be a hard one.
My sincere desire of success to all of those who wish to quit drinking or might be struggling to remain sober.
Additionally, if you would like to speak to me privately, for advice, my experience, etc... etc... feel free to send me a PM.
Peace & Love, Plants over Poison
Tetra
Congrats to you!!! That is one hell of an accomplishment! All the best.
For various reasons I sought help.. I had my last drink at 2300 Sunday,,, said goodbye to alcohol and thanked it for all my fuck ups and misery lol
, started Detox Monday 0800 lots of tablets involved,, willpower is also 100%
Currently Wednesday 1440 not caved in yet, feeling a bit strange but I really will do this,.
Thanks for reading
, started Detox Monday 0800 lots of tablets involved,, willpower is also 100%
Currently Wednesday 1440 not caved in yet, feeling a bit strange but I really will do this,.
Thanks for reading
Mr. Fontazy, you are back I see. Gooder luck with it this time, really. I was able to quit cold turkey because I was pissed off, and have a good reason not to start drinking beer again - I am skaird to.
I was really pissed off at the little beer bar when I got toasted on free beer day (watching a big game there). I was pissed off at myself for letting myself get in that condition. And mostly I was tired of being hurt the next day and having to remember how I hurt my self. My right thumb won't get better, and they can't fix it. It just hurts all the time, and reminds me why I quit.
I got away with 45 years of alchoholism, liver still functions per their tests. You are not missing a damn thing by not drinking. What you are fighting is your brain having been changed chemically to want the carbs from the alky. Those carbs have a way of digging into your brain and demanding them.
I was really pissed off at the little beer bar when I got toasted on free beer day (watching a big game there). I was pissed off at myself for letting myself get in that condition. And mostly I was tired of being hurt the next day and having to remember how I hurt my self. My right thumb won't get better, and they can't fix it. It just hurts all the time, and reminds me why I quit.
I got away with 45 years of alchoholism, liver still functions per their tests. You are not missing a damn thing by not drinking. What you are fighting is your brain having been changed chemically to want the carbs from the alky. Those carbs have a way of digging into your brain and demanding them.
Mr. Fontazy, you are back I see. Gooder luck with it this time, really. I was able to quit cold turkey because I was pissed off, and have a good reason not to start drinking beer again - I am skaird to.
I was really pissed off at the little beer bar when I got toasted on free beer day (watching a big game there). I was pissed off at myself for letting myself get in that condition. And mostly I was tired of being hurt the next day and having to remember how I hurt my self. My right thumb won't get better, and they can't fix it. It just hurts all the time, and reminds me why I quit.
I got away with 45 years of alchoholism, liver still functions per their tests. You are not missing a damn thing by not drinking. What you are fighting is your brain having been changed chemically to want the carbs from the alky. Those carbs have a way of digging into your brain and demanding them.[/QUOTE
The tablets I'm on are designed to help the brain and withdrawal,, so far so good
I was on a kick one time eating virgin organic coconut oil, which I would warm up to a liquid and throw it down. After doing that for a while, I was nebulizing H2O2 one evening. This was all in my desperate attempt to stop a chronic cough I had, that was caused by a sinus fungal infection, which I found out later.
Anyways, I got a huge splitting headache while doing the nebulizing. A very real, bad pain that lasted over an hour. I believe it was a die-off of something. I had zero desire for a beer for several days afterwards, which I was able to overcome that due to shear will of wanting to be a drunk, and returned to my case a day habit.
You really don't want to have a bunch of injuries, before you become skaird of being a drunk. Those pains are no fun, and CBD won't fix them all.
Sincere best wishes to you. I have not had a beer since I quit that Sunday morning (very hurt from whatever I did the night before). I can hang with friends and hand them beers from my fridge, go to the bar and socialize. Although I LOVE beer, I have not had one since. This site is a good distraction when you feel like drinking.
Anyways, I got a huge splitting headache while doing the nebulizing. A very real, bad pain that lasted over an hour. I believe it was a die-off of something. I had zero desire for a beer for several days afterwards, which I was able to overcome that due to shear will of wanting to be a drunk, and returned to my case a day habit.
You really don't want to have a bunch of injuries, before you become skaird of being a drunk. Those pains are no fun, and CBD won't fix them all.
Sincere best wishes to you. I have not had a beer since I quit that Sunday morning (very hurt from whatever I did the night before). I can hang with friends and hand them beers from my fridge, go to the bar and socialize. Although I LOVE beer, I have not had one since. This site is a good distraction when you feel like drinking.
