Help me to quit drinking
There are many ways to quit drinking -
- you can check in to a rehab if you’ve got the time,
- you can try taking ‘Antabuse‘ (which will make you feel very ill if you drink anything alcoholic),
- or maybe just try white-knuckle will-power,
- you could go to AA meetings and meet a few people with similar problems,
- then maybe work through the 12 steps?
- you could become a gym bunny and spend all day working out to distract yourself (not going to happen, right?),
- you might want to try Kudzu (a herbal supplement which helps you cut down how much alcohol you want to drink),
- best of all though, you can try the most convenient help available – online one-to-one counselling.
Online counselling will help you to quit drinking by encouraging you to change some aspects of your lifestyle, by getting you to look at the emotional and cognitive aspects of your habit, helping you to deal with anxiety or stress a bit better and by giving you some easy, practical tips to cut down the amount of alcohol you drink on a daily basis. It is probably the best option for those who are abusing alcohol, but who are not dependent alcoholics. (see: Am I an alcoholic?)
To quit drinking you first have to ask the question – “WHY am I drinking so much?” Our counselling service will help you to answer that.
I used Kudzu this month to start with and they seemed to help. Still take them when I’m feeling shaky as it’s only been less than four weeks abstaining so far.
Way to go Steve! All the best. I am cutting down and plan on being abstinent all January. Am stocking up the Kudzu and making a plan using this website and a counsellor.
I AM GETTING HELP TO STOP DRINKING AND SMOKING AND I AM GOING TO LOOK AFTER MY HEALTH BETTER BECAUSE I AM 14
It is very important for you to do this, specially at your age. My daughter started drinking at about your age, and she is in hospital for the second time. The first time she nearly died of Korsakoff’s syndrome. She is now 37, and has ruined her life because of drink. At an early age such as yours, your brain is still developing, and alcohol will cause damage to you, that you will not be aware of. You may have some psychiatric problem that is leading you to drink. For your sake and those who love you – there is ALWAYS some who love you, get all the help you can.
hi i also have a bad drink problem.any sugestions
I am 44. With a livein partner and two teen age children (not my own). I drink about one bottle of wine a day. I have done this since I gave up smoking 18 months ago… I drunk 1/2 a bottle of wine a day before that. I have drunk 1/2 a bottle of wine per day for about twenty years. Now I know I need help… MY memory is getting worse and my temper is getting shorter…
My first time of visiting this or any site, re alcohlism.I just want some one to talk to as I am,thankfully, still functioning…however; I am therefore, deceiving others.
I don’t feel I can go to rehab, as this would be a short term fix for a long time of hurt. I suspect this is often a recounted story, however I feel I cannot take much more and need to find the answers to the ‘things ‘ I have been subject to. It’s all in the past and I want to move on, but why can some people deal with their challenges and not others without blanking them out through ‘ means which they know will hurt even more, and go into self destruct?
Would be greatful of some discreet help if poss?!
Catherine
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Hi my name is kelly ia m living with my husband who is drinking heavily every day we have 2 lovely children and i can see his temper getting shorter and shorter just wondered if there is any way i can help him or chat to people in my situation
All advice is very welcome
Thank you kelly
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Kelly – Have a look at our forum, there’s plenty of people on there in the same position. Here’s a link to the section specifically about relationships
im addicted to alcohol, i just cant seem to say no anymore. talking to family and friends doesn’t help anymore, i feel so alone
Alone?
Who is the reason. Its u buddy and your habbit.understand that visualize it.
May god bless u
Well said, my friend. Alone??? It’s always due to drinking and/ or drugging. We isolate and then cannot understand why we are where we are. As substance abusers, we teach ourselves to believe that they on the outside, do not know . But they ALL KNOW. We fool no one….. Only ourselves.
get some pro help-see someone and let it all out-then wake up with a bad hangover -regretting words of the night and years before-and say to yourself.
“I don’t need this”
I stopped 18 months back-best thing ive ever done–good luck
Hi there, I have been a daily drinker for years (am 42) and things have become worse now that I’m not working… Went from evenings after work to all day alone. My boyfriend’s patience has run out, so I need to stop drinking- period… Scared.
Hi,
How are you getting on?
I am 19 and already have gotten 6 minor consumptions. My grandpa was an alcoholic and im afraid it’s already happening to me. I need to stop while im still young. I need a lifestyle change but it’s so hard when all your friends/roomates around you are drinking. I need help.
try moving to a different place not far but some where , where u feel excluded from the people what drink x
this is the first time i’ve written on my laptop. i’m so scared and don’t know what to expect. i’m only reading posts from years ago as i don’t know how to get all the updates. I remember when i was about 18 a friend of mine said…”alchohol is poison for you”…i ignored this obviously as here i am 36 years later, still with the same dilemna. What is it, what is it when we feel so well and powerful, is it just too good, are we not deserving, do we have to destroy the feeling of wellbeing in order to go back to the beginning, feel like death and then start all over again…is it gaining attention, i feel so defeated. feel as though this will just go on forever, a continual cycle of defeat and resurection. maybe that’s what the craving is, the power to control. i don’t know where to go on this site to find the replies, if any, to my post. advice would help.
maybe you should move to a different enviroment might help you to stop the drinking,because its the daily thing you do / weekend, i tried to occupy my self by doing things on a weekend or what i did spend on drink… putting it away realising that i could do more with the money i spend…. even after you have bought the drink ask your self , should i drink it , is it worth it. or even try and think things which taste like alchohol for the time being such as shandy, ginger beer, and then try drinking just coke , i no u wont feel the effect what alochol gives you but its worth a try, or eat something which will fill u up so your stomachs not empty wb
well Im sure I have a drinking problem my wife is upset with me and my son takes advantage of me when im drinking ive went to aa but even though iv read the book and the 12 somtimes my employment keeps me or i keep me from compleating the goal when drinking started to make problems i tryed to quit but I dont seem to be able to pull my head out and grow up. so here i am please help if you can.
I have been trying to stop drink but can’t, i want to stop but it’s hard too.
Hi
I have a problem of not knowing how to stop when i have to, especially when i drink on sundays i often stop at about 3:00 monday morning then i have to sleep for just 2hours so then i arrive at work with the alcohol smelling and i am still a bit drunk. I am 26 and i really need help.
Thanks
way to go all those out there drinking is a very serious mater
Today is the first day of giving up alcohol. I had a big scar last night, and I think its time to change. Going to my 1st AA meetin on friday..
I was alcohol free for 16 years, but went back out six years ago and have really struggled since. I’m under psychiatric care and counselor care and attend AA, sometimes more than others. But when the stress builds or when I’m feeling really good, I think I can slip safely. I can for about a week, then it’s more awful than the last time, and I’m really slow to get back to feeling well again. I work and don’t miss, but I feel awful much of the time, and each “mini recovery” takes longer than the last. I’m on Day 2 of detoxing by drinking a little beer, and I feel horrible, but I’m getting my tasks done. I just hate myself and don’t understand why my husband puts up with itl. I also am taking Naldrexol (somethiing like that) which is helpful, but not the solution. I really hgave trouble with Step 2 and 3.
i think that i am turning into an alcoholic, as my dad became one, i am only 21 and it started out by bindge drinking every weekend since the age of 14 only because friends would intice me to , things started to happen ….. like making a total fool of my self or getting out of control by hurting peoples feelings, speaking compleat rubbish. i know i have a problem with drinking but always seem to do it any way, every time i drink i feel the need to have more and more untill i dont no what i am doing! i no i need help but i am to embarresed to go and see some one about it. HAS ANY ONE GOT ANY ADVICE ON DOING STOPPING BY THEIR SELFS…… PLEASE HELP !!!!!
I know that I am an alcoholic and use alcohol to make things better or block out things I don’t want to deal with. I know how much better I am without it and also know what damage it does to my family. My son has issues with drug use which is a huge worry for me and I actually think that I am not helping him when I drink. I think the biggest hurdle for me is to accept that this is a huge weakness and that I am the only person who can make the change. I have been reading a lot of self help stuff as well especially the Louise Hay books. I find this helps and I also just have to keep busy so that I don’t fall into the trap of drinking. I actually use the bottle as a companion which is sad but absolutely true. I am going to get better each and ever day because I want this!!!!
i need to stop but cant find help
I am trying to figure out if i have a problem… i think i do.. i drink almost everyday and my toleration is getting higher and higher.. like a half a bottle of vodka everyday higher.. i am bi polar and have had issues in the past with prescription drug dependency… i was doing great for 2 years and then all the sudden went on a manic episode in nov 2011, i was painting and needing a creative outlet… so getting drunk seemed to help me reach my creative point but now i am done painting and being creative…. but still feel sick in the afternoons about 3:30-4:00 if i dont start…. i am not sure what to do… any thoughts?
Hi,
Mu name is Helene and I have a drink problem which I think may come from my mother as she is a recovering alcoholic.
I don’t drink during the day as I work 9 – 10 hours a day so it’s mainly evenings and definitley weekends.
At times I can manager to go through a couple of days without drinking and feel really proud of myself but then something might happen at work which stresses me and I buy a bottle of wine on the way home and drink it in one evening.
I find that my temperment is changing and I’m either really angry, depressed and crying all the time or almost on a high. work colleagues have been tollerent but I can’t see this lasting much longer.
I am 42, live with my husband of 17 years and have a great job so why doI drink? I really really want to stop but don’t want to visit my doctor about this because i’m embarressed.
My problem is so bad… I bought a litre bottle of Vodka on Thursday just gone and there is less than a third left today, Sunday – just 3 days later. Any advise would be greatly welcomed.
hi to everyone,iam just the same i go a couple of days, then back on it and dontknow when to stop, trying to hide it from people, feel embarrased, shame ,its destroying my relationship, my husband doesnt believe me anymore when i say i want to stop ,which i truley do want to,but i just struggle to succeed ,please can somebody help xx
I have a drinking problem. I have run off all of my friends and have caused my son to not like me.
I need help.
Please !
dc
I have not heard from my daughter for one and a half years. When her mother died last Summer, I don’t remember our conversation. I know it’s killing me, but know I don’t want to go back into a bullshit rehab program.
I’m lost….I never thought alcohol could destroy everything. I was just a typical social drinker now….I don’t know how to get help.
I know I need to stop drinking! I took my kids for a walk last night and I fell because my judgement was impaired. I was and still am a big bloody mess from the fall. I used to be able to socially drink, now one drink turns into an entire bottle.
Hey I’m david from essex im 24 I was in a relationship for 8 years with the love of my life but I did the stupthing of going with someone else. My friends and family was there for me … but also so was the booze I drink all the time people try to help but i end up pushing them away I’m finding life really hard I know I got a drink problem n i need help big time i lost my friend to booze he was in the same situation..when I don’t drink I shake a little.. and im a support worker and I know some day its going to affect my job if that happens i will get worse
Thnks David
i have an alchahol drug problem can you help