How to Quit Drinking Alcohol:

How to Quit Drinking Alcohol

How to Quit Drinking Alcohol :

Talk to your doctor :

• Don’t feel like you need to quit alone.
• It’s often easier to quit with the help of medical intervention than it is to try it cold turkey.
• Doctors treating withdrawal from alcohol often prescribe benzodiazepines to help with symptoms.

Get rid of all bottles, cans, etc :

Don’t feel that you will have guests and you must have to offer them bear,alcohol etc.Offer them tea , lemonade, and coke etc.

Feel your feelings :

• Cry when you need to.
• Laugh when you can.
• Eat when you are hungry. Sleep when you are tired.

This is going to be really weird at first, but embrace it. You haven’t felt your feelings for a long time. You will have a learning curve.

In the initial stage, reduce the quantity of alcohol intake :

Rome wasn’t built in a day. You’re probably not going to kick your habit in a week, either.

• Imagine that due to excess alcohol, you are vomiting and having paralyzing headaches. If you’ve felt this way before while drinking, try to summon those memories. The pain you feel is good: it’s a willingness to change your habits, and that’s the first step.
• Even if you only reduce your daily drinking by one drink, it’s a success. No step is too small at this point. A mistake here is getting comfortable only curbing your drinking by one drink. Keep working on reducing the alcohol you consume. Every week, cut down the total number of drinks by at least one. If you want to be more ambitious, try halving the number of drinks you allow yourself each week.

Have food before you drink :

Eating a meal before drinking will reduce your interest for drinking. It will also make it harder to get drunk. If you do this, don’t trick yourself into letting your body get as drunk as you would have if you hadn’t eaten — although very clever, that’s what we call cheating !!!

Drink a lot of water :

Water will help keep you hydrated, make you feel better, and help flush out toxins from your body. Men are advised to drink 12 cups (3.0 liters) of water a day, and women are advised to drink 9 cups (2.2 liters).

Don’t try to explain quitting to people :

Most people do not drink like alcoholics do. They are not like us and therefore they cannot understand the fact that we truly have a problem with alcohol. Of course, there are others who have the problem too. Either way, people will say “You don’t have problem!” When you do quit drinking, just say “No thanks, I’ll have a Diet Coke — I’m trying to watch my weight.” If you hang out with them very much they’ll figure it out — and they’ll think “Good for him!”

Don’t let guilt consume you :

• Feeling guilty is only half of the equation. If you’re just getting sober because you feel guilty, you’re getting sober for the wrong reasons. You should be getting sober because you care about yourself, you care about the happiness of your family and friends (who care deeply about you), and you care about leaving an impact on the world. Guilt is only half the reason you should be quitting.

Take a B vitamin supplement daily for your first week off alcohol :

Alcohol affects the ability of the body to absorb these vitamins, specifically thiamine.

Deficiency can cause severe cognitive impairment, including Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome or wet brain.

Remember the reasons why you quit in the first place :

• “I never want to miss work because I have a hateful hangover again.”
• “I never want to embarrass my child in front of her friends again.”
• “I never want to drunk dial my friends and relatives and act like an idiot again.”
• “I never want to have to pretend I remember what happened the night before when I don’t recall anything after X o’clock again.”
• Or “I wonder what it would be like to feel good again.”

Hope it will let you Quite Drinking !!!

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