The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread! Part 5

ineedtokickthehabbit

Hi everyone

I am a long time lurker on this thread and would like to join you in my quest to be Alcohol Free.

I have just given up smoking (Day 6) and now want to tackle my Alcohol problem.

I drink every night, be it Wine, Vodka, Whiskey and have done so for many years. I calculated the number of units I consume per week and was horrified, so I want to do something about it.

I would like to be just a social drinker, where I have a couple of glasses at the weekend.

I am hoping that joining this thread will give me the motivation, support and encouragement to crack it as you are a lovely bunch of people.

cheers

jo1972

Hi ineedtokickthehabit and welcome to the thread, you are in the right place to find support and advice. Good luck with cutting down and congratulations on quitting the fags too. xx

Lurkio

jo1972 wrote: »

Lurky, so busy that you haven't been able to log on for a week hope you're well?

actually, yeah!

Not too bad, ta. Bearing up......

jo1972

Lurkio wrote: »

actually, yeah!

Not too bad, ta. Bearing up......

Sorry that sounded a bit bossy didn't it Didn't mean to. Hope you are okay, hows the job situation going?

ineedtokickthehabbit

jo1972 wrote: »

Hi ineedtokickthehabit and welcome to the thread, you are in the right place to find support and advice. Good luck with cutting down and congratulations on quitting the fags too. xx

Thank you I aim to start next week. I had a friend around last night and again drank too much so am sitting here with a hangover, why oh why do I keep doing this.

jo1972

ineedtokickthehabbit wrote: »

why oh why do I keep doing this.

You will hear this quite a lot on here :rolleyes:

Why not pledge the amount of days you want to be alcohol free (AF) and Fay will add you on the October list

115K

:wave: to ineedtokickthehabbit.

I am hungover today as well.:rolleyes:

glasgowgirl

eselt wrote: »

I think 'shy and quiet' could be the new 'black'.

:rotfl::rotfl:Hurrah! We'll be the most fashionable 'kids' in town! :rotfl::rotfl:

MOS - I've been trying for years and failing to beat the cravings. I really loved my wine and thought it was a wonderful thing that really enhanced my life (yep - even though every time I hooked up with it I ended up ill, mortified by my behaviour or - even worse - in hospital!).

In this mindset, I couldn't imagine giving up the thing I loved. Even time I tried to stop I was thinking - "I'm missing out on something truly great that everyone else gets to enjoy. It's not fair!" Of course, I couldn't deny myself this fantastic "treat" so would always go back to it.

Now I feel like the blinkers are coming off and I'm seeing these nights on the wine for what they really are - dangerous, destructive etc. I'm starting to understand that I'm a nicer (not to mention safer!) person off the booze than on it.

I'm still in the very early stages of a mindset change, but I think/hope I'm kind of starting to get what GC means when he talks about changing yourself etc. I think the Allan Carr book is quite good for helping to re-set your views on booze too - trying to re-read a chapter a night.

Sorry for the long post - hope it makes some kind of sense!!

xx

Oops, sorry, forget to welcome Ineedtokickthehabit - welcome on board!

glasgowgirl

Just to add to my above post, appreciate that not everyone who has a drink has these extreme benders that end up in hospital - I'm an alcoholic of the "1,000 drinks not enough" variety I think!

Now what am I going to spend today's "wine money" on? Going to give myself £6 saved so:

A posh coffee from the new deli along the road?
Bunch of flowers?
Pile of trashy celeb mags?
Inspired by Fay - some fun stripey socks?

Decisions, decisions...!!

xx

115K

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]A pea soup related joke: you must answer "pea green soup" to all questions - go on!
What did you have for breakfast?
What did you have for lunch?
What did you have for dinner?
What did you do all night?

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Sorry, I know that joke is terrible but I just saw it on a vegetarian website and I thought of you guys on here. It made me laugh for some reason.:rotfl: