How do you stop drinking

>how do I stop drinking

Have you tried just not drinking, you brain damaged fuck?

>>18314861
You become to poor to buy alcohol

>>18314861
Man up and cut that poison out of your life.

>>18314861
cultivate the will to power

>>18314863
This doesn't work. Niggers manage to overcome this all the time.

>>18314861
jessicababyfat before anyone asks

>>18314861
Every time I see this picture, I wonder how her asshole smells. Calvin Klein undies are the best.

>>18314861
Find a sponsor, someone you can call at any time when you get the urge to drink.

>>18314866
How? By skipping food or what?

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>>18314867
>jessicababyfat before anyone asks
Danke, straya

>>18314861
Adopt a few new hobbies to keep you busy during the time that you would normally be drinking.
Boredom will only make you want to get drunk.
GL, Anon.

I quit, now I don't want to drink but it didn't help anything, but I never had any problems from drinking.

Will probably slide back into it in a couple of months.

elevate your life. look at your absurd question. of course it will totally flip your life around for the better. honestly, being an alcoholic is much worse than being an other drug addict.

>>18314861
It depends. Are we talking casually drinking in social situations or are we talking complete come home from work every night head straight for the bottle? Where are you on the spectrum?

>>18314863
>Beg for 5 $
>Buy a couple 40oz beers and get drunk.

Why we have so many damn homeless.

>>18314867
She's like a high end escort right?

>>18314871
oh god
deliver us from yellow fever
amen

>>18314878
>http://www.japanesebeauties.net/uncensored/uralesbian/megumi-shino-chie-kobayashi/038_kobayashi_chie_shino_megumi
I don't think God can help.

>>18314861
>tfw been telling myself every morning these past three years that i won't drink in the evening
>inevitably have to buy either cigs, toilet paper or food on the way home
>buy booze every time and am drunk by 8pm
Only thing that kept me away from the bottled jew was New Vegas, for about a week.

>>18314879
I hate you.

You get sick of being hung over all the time and destroying your organs, and this >>18314863

If you aren't at that point yet and you are having a few beers after work every day, you are normal

>>18314877
God I wish.
No she's an insta fitness girl.

>>18314870
rather robbing

>>18314881
W-why senpai?

>>18314861
too much ass

>>18314861
Easy, you never start. Alcohol is for weak-minded fags.

>>18314861
theres only a few things that cutting cold turkey helps, like drinking sodas to stop being fat.

just try to limit yourself. give yourself a night once a week to get plastered, a goal, a treat to work yourself towards. I usually give myself friday or saturday. Get together with some friends and just watch a horrible movie and get as drunk as i can before passing out.

>>18314861
Not something I've ever had a problem with but probably the same way I quit smoking. Keep trying to quit even if you relapse once or a dozen times.

>>18314861
Alcoholics Anonymous actually works.
For your average alcoholic it's nearly impossible to stop drinking without some type of outside help. That help normally has to take the form of some kind of religion, or organization. You need to give an alcoholic a reason not to drink. Finding God is a tried, and true method.

>>18314861
You have to want to, that's the first requirement. After that part, it get's a lot easier. You may also have to stop spending time with the same people you go to the pub with, for a time at least. That depends on your level of self control. You need to be able to build up your self control again, the actual addiction to alcohol may or may not be that strong but the habit will want to continue for a long time. That's about it man.

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>>18314861
THICCCC

Fuck the alcohol, how do we stop being attracked to asians? How do we make the white woman attractive again?

Quit cold turkey. Was super depressed for a few weeks since I wasn't getting my expected amount of dopamine I am guessing. Wanted to off myself but it went away. I have More money and I feel a lot better.

Go to AA. Stop posting on a political message board asking For help. Talk to people who have experience doing it.

t. I'll be 2 years sober next week thanks to the program.

>>18314892
have them stop fucking niggers and making ugly as fuck kids

>>18314890
>Alcoholics Anonymous actually works.

For some some people. Therapy and naltrexone actually work.

>>18314890
>Alcoholics Anonymous actually works.

statistically at around same rate than just deciding to stop..

>>18314861
Been sober here for 2 months after 13 years drunk. Kratom is the only reason I haven't fallen off the wagon. Life is much better all around.

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>>18314861
I used to drink everyday, I lost 2 jobs because of it, I was always on the edge of quitting drinking, after losing my second job, I went to AA, I saw how depressing everyone was, how disgusting the old fucks were there, and I didn't want that, so I just quit, I had a few rocky starts, but I have been sober enough for 3 years to hold down a good job, get my license back, buy a house, and a car, and get a girlfriend. it sucks at first, but its totally worth it man.

>>18314886
There's no such thing

>>18314896
It works for everyone who actually follows the guidelines laid out in the book.
AA doesn't fail people. People fail AA.

Started smoking weed once or twice a month.

No hangover, it's pretty great.

>>18314861
just stop drinking, drinking enough that you feel like you might die helps but I wouldn't recommend it.

no its doesn't change shit.

Go to AA, hear how other people stopped, find God if you haven't already, and learn about ways to stop cravings.

Not being a degenerate and just stop drinking.

Last year I stopped drinking for like 8 months because I was heavily focused on fitness, getting a new job and several other things. I slowly started again, however and now I'm having a bit of difficulty kicking it again. Think I just have to get myself in the right mindset. Pisses me off though because life really is better without drinking. I'm a much better and more productive person without alcohol.

>>18314901
That's the biggest line of bullshit. Sounds like something from a house-flipping seminar.

>>18314896
Most AAs that actually want to stop drinking go to therapy get on some sort of antidepressant and naltrexone or other drug that helps with cravings, at least a first. Also AA is very good therapy. It's not so bleak, depressing, and uncomfortable like in movies and TV. In cities especially, there are so many groups that range from small to large and have different themes.

>>18314861
I woke up in the hospital one morning with two felonies. After that I stopped drinking. Quitting hasn't changed me in any way, though.

I detoxed a couple weeks ago. Went 100 hours without. Couldn't sleep, felt itchy and twitchy, no appetite. Was miserable. Got right the fuck off that wagon and started drinking again. Now I sleep, 10, 11 hours. Like a baby/ Feel much better. Your results might vary, but for me, there's no way out.

Fuck it, I'm gonna stop drinking. It's so pointless really, it's over after a while and you're worse than when you started and impedes development.

>>18314861
Just don't buy alcohol.

I drank A LOT. Even now if I buy a bottle of whiskey I'll drink the whole fucking thing. in 1 night. But I can just simply not buy it, then I don't drink.

It is easy, just don't do it.

>>18314861
You can't just quit drinking tho. You need to take it slowly as you might suffer from alchohol withdrawal syndrome which can be very deadly if you do it abruptly.

>>18314910
It takes more than a few weeks. I could barely eat and sleep for two months after stopping drinking. I kept my heat off and apartment was around 50F-55F. It can be helpful to get on non-abusable medication to deal with depression.

>>18314861
My brother did it with antabus.

>>18314913

Not unless you are drinking 24/7, like 1 liter plus a day of hard alcohol. Then you taper off with like 3-5 drinks a day then it is fine to stop cold turkey.

>>18314910
I had that same problem. I stayed up all night just watching tv, reading, playing a game, fucking went on an hour long walk. Just could not go to sleep till 5am in the morning.

People always pretend their alcohol withdrawals

Unless you're drinking hard alcohol the moment you wake up to go to sleep you're not going to die from withdrawals, you might lost sleep and feel out of your skin i suppose though.


If you drink beer even for 20 years straight after work and limit it to under 12 of them you will only have acute withdrawal symptoms

>>18314864

This, just man up.

Grab a couple of books that are interesting for men, I suggest anything by charles buklowski

understand that the first two weeks are the worst - MASSIVE mood swings and depression.

Pick a hobby and stick with it.

Don't be afraid to reach out to friends and hang out.

>>18314883
>I wish

This.

>>18314913
>You can't just quit drinking tho.
not with that attitude.

I have an unoppened bottle of JD from new years sat in plain view, its easy, you just don't drink it.

>finding god will help you
where did you find him?

>>18314872
This.

Go to the gym instead.

>>18314892
> THICCCC
N I G G E R

God I hate you fucking idiots spouting this thicc bullshit

>>18314861
Change your habits slowly.
Maybe don't drink one day.
Cut back slowly.
Hard.
Do the best you can.
Don't get angry at yourself for falling into long held habits.
Just settle down and focus on a task.
Drinking is usually because your life sucks.
So do something worth doing.
Be good to yourself.

>>18314913
It's pretty fun to suffer through the withdrawals. The visions you see would horrify most people.

>>18314919
>trying to quit drinking by reading Charles Bukowski

>>18314861
Start doing lots of sports. That will help because drinking less will lower the pain

>>18314921
You're not an addict though.

I remember finding months old rigs in my backpack with dirty ass cottons using sink water from the bathrooms at walmart to slam dope

I've even met alcoholics that wake up after a night of drinking, throw up blood and find a 4 loko that somebody didn't finish and he'd polish it off, right after he woke up.

>>18314912
This is one of the best answers.
You can't drink something that isn't physically present.

>>18314925
I had the worst nightmares (when I could sleep) waking up in cold sweats for a few days. Then I was fine.

>>18314861
I never started.

>/pol/
>drinking
KILL yourself you filthy excuse of human being.

>>18314861
Just get naltrexone

Kratom helped me kick a hardcore heroin habit, there is a group im in on facebook and it seems to help a bunch of people worried about becoming alcoholics with their drinking getting worse.
>>18314933
Do not do this, Kratom is much better and safer.

>>18314928
>You're not an addict though.
thats the dumbest shit i've heard today. so it was easy for me cause I did it huh?

thanks bud. totally wanted that feel.

>>18314935
Its just something every addict knows he cant do, its like me putting a bunch of dope on my counter and saying I have the will power to say no

I am not saying you don't love alcohol, its just different when you literally can't say no, its the worst feeling in the world

>>18314934
What's wrong with naltrexone?

>>18314932
Glad your mother mixed red pills with her breast milk. The rest of us were born and raised on a steady diet of degeneracy and are trying to crawl our way out of it.

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>>18314861
>Did quitting help you mentally and professionally?

You don't buy any? It's that simple. If you don't buy it, you can't drink it. I tried buying some good stuff like grey goose vodka or spiced rum or dry whiskey or nice bottles of wine but I don't know man. If I see the bottles just sitting there, being unused I feel obligated to drink them.

That's why I just stopped trying to have a nice liqueur cabinet and since then I've cut my drinking back by like 250%. Just buy what you need, when you need it.

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>>18314932

>>18314937
Its very strong man, its got the power to block out morphine 100x over

With that you get addicted, and quitting naltroxone is worse than heroin in most cases.

>>18314915
Antabuse helped me a lot. I still drank through it to an extent sometimes, but I would turn bright red and eventually get sick. Over time it conditioned me very well to associate drinking with getting sick.

>>18314935
Pretty much.

I've seen people who pretty much can't function without without their fix and when they tried to change their ways so fast, they cough up blood , vomit, and had several restless nights because of the habits that's kicking in.

I had to sit down with a daughter of an alchoholic explaining to me what her dad went through and she can't bear seeing him in a vegetative state because he wants to change.

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>tfw 2-4 beers a week

Am I an alcoholic?

>>18314944
yes

>>18314944
You're fucked

>>18314944

>2-4 beers a week.
No.

To qualify as an addict you must first go in a mental state that you CAN'T function without the substance you're intaking.

You reach to the point that you prioritize intaking those stuff before doing anything and so on.

>>18314947
Well explained in layman terms

>>18314944
>2-4 beers a day
Completely normal.

>>18314861
Antabuse, look it up. AA is just replacing alcohol with ideology, and it's US american bs we've had enough of anyway.

>>18314944
Irish tier

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>>18314944
as long as you don't drink more than 2-4 during an entire week, you'll be fine Esti.

>>18314944

Hard to say. Beers to me are nothing, I could drink 6 in an hour and still drive perfectly fine. I drink beers when playing vidya or watching movies. If you can't control how many you drink in one sitting, then you're fucked.

For example; I drank 2 beers on friday night, 2 on saturday evening and 2 on sunday evening. If you buy a six pack and drink it all in one sitting then you might be.

>>18314950
They do that in shick shadle and it doesnt work lol

Its good in theory and works on people that think they are alcoholics

I used to drink. now my liver is damaged.

>>18314953
What? i drink about 4-5 times a week and always drink at least 6-10 in a night, I feel no physical withdrawals, only sometimes a headache when I wake up.

>>18314954
>that
kys imbecile

>>18314957
Why, because antabuse is just a jewish scam that promises to heal you in 7 days

fuck out of here

>>18314861

I dunno. Never had an issue with quitting drinking. Been generally alcohol free for over 5 years.

I'll have about a three or four beers a year.

Marijuanna on the other hand. I'm addicted.

FWIW I drink normally today. I had severe emotional issues, bipolar depression (I know it's often a bullshit diagnosis but I've been going through cycles since 12 and is undeniable regardless of the cause), I was godless, away from family, emotionally abusive relationship with a serious hardcore alcoholic, I drank enough alcohol often enough that my body was addicted, and I wasn't on my meds. I joined AA and stopped drinking completely for a year. My sponsor never felt that I was truly alcoholic. It is possible to be a heavy drinker with serious issues that can be resolved but not common if you get to the point of joining AA. I never had any issues with any drug in my life, though I didn't try much. I never abused pain pills or anything like that and don't like weed. I'd never hurt my family or friends from my drinking, just myself. It's best to assume you will never drink again and not fantasize about drinking normally again. If it were to ever get bad again I'll quit. I just felt empty and soulless at the time, and AA helped me find my way.

>>18314883
So yes, you mean. That's what Instagram is for. The fact that she visited dubai is a dead giveaway.

>>18314861
Read one of the alcoholic threads on /ck/
Those guys are fucked

>>18314861
I've got 10 bottles of lager in my fridge that have been there for 5 months.
I just don't have the urge.
I would recommend not buying it.

Getting drunk is shit anyway. You act like a fucking idiot and feel like shit the next day.
Have a beer, sure, but if you can't stop at a beer just stay away from drink.

>>18314861
>1 post by this ID

>>18314861
Just stop drinking so much. A little doesn't hurt. I limit myself to once a week. Gives me something to look forward to and I get shit done during the week without feeling hung over. Feels great.

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34 year old here. I used to drink 5 or 6 caguamas everyday after work. Did this for years. Finally I realized how fucking stupid and selfish I was being so I just quit one Tuesday afternoon. You don't need help. Outside forces can't change your decision for anything other than short term. You have to help yourself. You and only you. The world doesn't care. Friends come and go. The only constant in your life is self determination or lack of.
Pic related: my preferred beer

>>18314958
That's retarded. Antabuse is not some miracle drug. It makes you sick when you drink and helps deter you. It's worthless for an alcoholic that doesn't get at least some sort of help/therapy and truly wants to stop drinking.

>>18314875
>>Where are you on the spectrum?
>asking this on 4chins

>>18314960
>FWIW

your main issue is that you need to permanently fuck off back to rebbit

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>>18314944
>One and a half litre of beer every day
>5-6 cups of coffee every day
>I still work just fine

>>18314861
Try weed for replacement.

I drink like 3-4 beers a day and it never gets me drunk or anything, but I would think liver issues will wreck me after a while

>>18314861
Can't offer much in the way of tips on quitting since I just stopped cold turkey which may or may not be very helpful to you. Really hasn't affected my career as of now, though long term at least it should be good for my health.

>>18314961
This
Only one reason women head to that shit hole

>>18314964

/po/ has REALLY gone to shit in the last week, constant non-political lifestyle problem threads harvesting hundreds of (You)s

>>18314956

Yeah, that's straight up alcoholism. You're drinking to get buzzed, not cause you enjoy them or are hanging out with friends. If you were richer or had a good job you'd probably be drinking better stuff.

That's way too much, you gotta cut back soon before you become dependent.

>>18314944
>I drink about 6-8 a day
Fuck me, am I fucked?! I thought that was normal!

You stop drinking.

Wow, that was hard

>>18314861
Go into the underworld and defeat the dragon of chaos
Stop hanging out w your drinking buddies
Get a hobby to replace the 20h a week you filled w booze
Quit butts

>>18314861

Only time I'm happy is when I'm drunk so no, not drinking does not help me

>>18314975
It's also called a slow news week. Get over yourself.

>>18314977

What the fuck do you even do that you can drink so much a day? 90% of my day is spent on work, video games, anime and gf in that order. I only have time to drink that many on the week ends.

>>18314977

Go down to 3-4 and you'll be fine

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>>18314977
And not even joking.

>>18314978
Says the prepubescent teen who's never had a sip of anything stronger than green tea.

>>18314952
wew

>>18314982
>anime
>gf
Pick one

>>18314976
I dont even think/need alcohol to do my every day duties though like I did with other substances, I dont think im near getting addicted, my dad has been drinking for 25+ years and doesnt drink on sundays, no symptoms

>>18314982
School work and labs, I work at a lab so I just do my school work there. Come home, do more school work, lab reports and study.

>>18314984

Guy, you need a life. If you keep too busy, you will have less time to hang around, be lazy and bored into drinking.

It depends on how far deep you're in. If you're a severe alcoholic, quitting cold turkey can kill you.

I never got withdrawal symptoms and I've been to the point where I was drinking (unknown) quantities of beer every single day. I'd order pitchers to myself and drink from open to close.

Want to know what my wake up call is?
>Got black out drunk one night
>Wake up the next morning in an abandoned warehouse
>I'm covered in my own shit
>I took a shit on the floor apparently, laid down next to it and rolled around in it
>Go sit on the town square bench and have the final "wtf am I doing" push
>Have an embarrassing 5 mile walk home as people driving by can see shit stains on me

Honestly, it's hard to quit if you have nothing else to live for. You need something to push or motivate you to quit. For me, it was years of being a degenerate drunk with nothing to show for it and I wanted to get into self-employment and actually try to make it work.

My friend quit because a girl he met finally gave him an ultimatum to quit and he's glad she did.

Also, it helps to meet drunks that are older than you because that is your future if you don't quit. I met a guy who drinks 2 liters of vodka every single day. I also met a bar owner in his 60s who downs a 24 pack every single day.

You just need a reason to live or a goal in life to pursue.

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>>18314861
At first, go to meetings. Be honest. Listen, maybe don't talk except to say that you are hear to listen and be grateful.
Second, stay at home instead of going out for at least a month. Don't shop at stores with booze, don't go to restaurants with booze, don't go to parties with booze and don't buy booze. You will emerge later, but not yet.
Go easy on yourself. So you fucked up and have to stop drinking. The great achievements of man have been done in spite of alcohol not because of alcohol.
You don't have to not drink forever today, just not now. You don't live your whole life in a day, don't think of all the times you might like a drink, just think
About now.
Pay attention, you life and your outlook on life will improve so much. There is a stage after you quit drinking called, the pink cloud, wherein you no longer have tha neural depressant in you so you nerves start getting all excited all the time. It's pretty amazing.
And, don't give anything else up for like 6 mos.
Also, you are going to lose 15-100 lbs in the first year, depending on you level
Of drunkenness.

>>18314987

I choose both, alpha men don't limit themselves. Only betas set limits.

>>18314913
when i quit, i had withdrawls. i called my doctor and he gave me librium (i think) that helped me get thru withdrawls safely. sleep sucked for about 6 months but now im fantastic. i drank about 3-12 beers every night for 10 years. its not the amount of alcohol, its the not taking breaks

>>18314902
Kind of this.
I stopped drinking and had really shitty DT. Now I just smoke weed before bed. I get great sleep and enjoy looking forward to my "high" hour or two. Much better than waking up hungover and needing more alcohol. Also I don't black out anymore and with that comes a lot less problems in my life.

>>18314990
I can't really get a life, I have grad school to finish.
>>18314983
so 3-4 a day is fine? I've honestly never been educated on alcohol abuse/addiction.

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>>18314986

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Why the fuck would you drink in the first place?
Alcohol tastes like shit.
Stop pretending to be cool infront of other and just don't drink.

>>18314998
Pretty sure the alcoholics here drink by themselves kiddo

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>>18314861
the first step my uncle took was to take a knife to a can of beer and say 'You do not control me' while stabbing it (Make sure it's empty) after that he got help but he said that doing that helped him take dominance over his addiction. Clean for 3 years now and has an expecting wife, not saying it will always work but some people get started down the path to freedom in strange ways.

>>18314998
>Alcohol tastes like shit
No one drinks for taste.

>Stop pretending to be cool
Most alcoholics don't think they're cool and hate themselves. They do it because they're depressed or have nothing to live for.

Most of the alcoholics I met drank at home doing what most people in this thread are doing.

>>18314996
>so 3-4 a day is fine? I've honestly never been educated on alcohol abuse/addiction.

Well its just over the maximum recommended limit of liquor for men (by doctors), which is set at 23 units of alcohol a week. If you drink 4 beers a night, you will be at 28, just 5 over.

If you drink 3 a night, you'll be at 21 units a week.

>>18314861
Do you want to stop drinking? then stop, it's that simple. If you get withdrawal symptoms slowly drink less day by day

Then stop doing alcohol and start doing better drugs

>>18314861
Well, it starts with that walk down the high street. You see that pub? You don't go in.

Let's try something else. You see that booze in - I assume Tesco is allowed to sell booze? You push your what do you call it? Trolley? You just push it right on by.

But really I think you'll have to ultimately leave the UK and find somewhere else to live. Because if you get enough Brits together in one spot, they will go drinking at 6pm after work. It's almost hardwired into you lot. The only way to unwire yourself is to surround yourself with people who don't do that at 6pm but rather go do something else.

>>18314998
Only person I drink in front of is my gf and she nags me none stop about it. If you think alcohol tastes bad then you're drinking the wrong ones.

>>18314994
From what I have seen from people, lessening their daily intake helped them alot for quitting since main rehabs here are pretty expensive.

The things that drove them usually to change is that it's directly affecting their family as most of them didn't really care if they die from it. Talking to other people who wants to change helped them alot.

>>18314996
>so 3-4 a day is fine? I've honestly never been educated on alcohol abuse/addiction.

No, it isn't fine and just leads back to where you are. But that guy said it, trying to get you to ween yourself free cause stopping cold turkey just leads to a bigger back lash. Cut back to 2 or 3 a day, and drink them slowly, make them last. If you feel like you can't just drink 2 or 3, drink them before heading to bed. Maybe that will fool your body into thinking you consumed your usual amount.

>>18314991
Thank you for reminding people cold turkey from hardcore drinking leads to hospitalization, where they will give you an ethanol drip to keep you alive.

>>18315001
>No one drinks for taste.

I do. Turkey bourbon with the taste of how your chewing on spicey bark or white russian with the coffee after taste. The only thing I don't drink for taste is straight vodka.

>>18314861
Idk, I was too autistic to hang out with normies so I never even started drinking.

Literally never been drunk.

>>18314928
I was that kind of alcoholic

>>18314936
>>18314943
why do you assume I haven't seen and experienced the same shit? because I quit without rehab?

you're beginning to piss me off.

>>18314868
>Calvin Klein undies are the best.
Fuck off, PR whore.

>>18315001
I drink it for the tastes. All those flavors that can only be dissolved in ethanol. Those licorice, tobacco, earthy, dank, horse blanket, clay, tannic, dms, grapefruit, oaks...
when you are 15-25 you are probably not drinking for the flavour.

>>18314998
>cool infront of other
Fuck you, I drink alone.

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I'm struggling myself for about a year now to quit.

I down about 2 liters of beer every other day, i don't have withdrawal problems or any of that, i get my buzz and dooze off to sleep.

The problem is from the 35 kg of fat ive put on since i started.

No clothes fit me anymore, im ashamed to go outside, and im horrified that i can't seem to stop.

>>18314861
But no seriously. If you are drinking as a coping strategy for something else going on in your life, the first step is to be honest with yourself about the pain and how you're dealing with it.

There's two ways of changing things - getting rid of what's causing the pain in the first place or finding some other way of coping with the pain.

You could try overeating or video games or other kinds of hard drugs, for instance? Some people would beat their wives back in the old days, but that's frowned on now. You could fuck hookers all the time until your dick falls off? Just throwing out alternative means of coping here.

In the end though, you have to choose. That's why you're here. So choose and fuck off.

Don't start. But since you're past that point, I've found vidya and exercise (you need both if you want to feel well) helps stop drinking.

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>>18314964
Im lurking

>>18314862
This. FPBP.

It's poison. You can get away with a few beers a few times a month with lads, but don't get hammered. You literally pay money to damage your mind and body and if you do so in excess, you'll waste the next day as well.

>>18314892
>Being attracted to asians in the first place
Shit taste, gooks are one of the most disgusting looking women on earth. They look okay at best with tons of makeup and plastic surgerey.

>>18315004
The geographic cure does not work. Every place has a drinking culture, you just have to disconnect from it, and into the rest of the culture.

>>18315010
Good. Keep it that way

>>18314962
yes this...

>>>/ck/8927916

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>>18315016
>The problem is from the 35 kg of fat ive put on since i started.

Your drinking was nothing to do with it, it's just that you don't move much.
I was drunk 24/7 for 2 years and was skinnier then ever, i still drink now but most of the times i drink alone and don't leave the house or use car to get anywhere and i've gained quite a weight.


To get on the main topic, i would see myself quit drinking and smoking only if a have a child someday.

>>18315016
A liter of beer a day, that's like 3 cans of beer at ~330ml? Murican cans are somewhat bigger. So that's like only half a sixpack in any case.

I've heard of guys talk about cases of beer a day, not just half a six pack. Methinks you have a ways to go before calling yourself an alky. But the weight is a problem. Don't become a fat Murican, being fat sucks.

>>18315012
Did drinking affect your personal life in a manner that you have to get buzzed first before working?

>>18315016
You need exercise, meetings and niacin. Keep hard candy around you. Your body is used to a tone of sugar from the booze, cravings can be countered by southing as simple as orange slices or hard candy.

>>18314861
Think of it as building a house. One brick at a time. Attack it from various angles, various tactics, both in planning and action. It'll take a while, don't get discouraged.
- First stop buying it regularly, so if you feel the urge you have to go out and get some. Hard to do after 11pm in most places. Stop buying special offers and deals.
Increase the number of steps/actions between feeling the urge and taking a sip. Make it harder to acquire upon the urge.
Then, don't buy a ten pack, then stop buying four packs, them commit to only buying one bottle at a time. The embarrassment of going to the shop multiple times has an effect on your motivation to do so.
- Then stop drinking beer. It's too easy to start drinking and keep drinking. You could move to wine and spirits as they're more expensive and so harder to acquire and far easier to overdo, this magnifying negative effects and decreasing motivation to do it.
Then you'll notice that opening a bottle of wine means you'll likely finish it, or you'll have some left over for the next night which will trick you into drinking on consecutive nights, which is another thing to try to avoid. So maybe you buy one of the silly little 200ml bottles.
- Next, try to drink less often. If you drink to fall asleep, as I did for over ten years, just accept that it sucks the first few times, and you may have some sleepless nights.
The first night I went without drinking was a major milestone. Even though I relapsed I proved that I could do it. Next milestone was two nights in a row

More to tips to come. And yes, it really is worth it. Sleep better, think clearer plus other things perhaps only personal to me.

>>18315028
I already answered that. you assumed im not an addict because I managed to quit without help.

its all willpower, telling people they need god or fucking medical treatment is akin to shooting yourself in the foot.

Start by drinking LESS. Trying to stop all at once is harder because it only takes one weak moment to fail. If you drink every night, try for 6 nights a week. Once you can do that consistently, down to 5, and so on. Scaling back how much you drink works too- 2 beers to take the edge off is an improvement over getting hammered. That way, if you have a shot day and end up wanting to get trashed or whatever, you don't fail- you just make up for it the next day.

Most people in this thread are normies who have never struggled with anything more than disappointing daddy and mommy.
I'd say do something to distract yourself until the liquor store closes. I've been sober about a week now.
I'm yet to have a normal night of sleep but I have to believe I'm getting better.

>>18315022
In some lands, the culture is more - prevalent and ubiquitous - than in others...

>>18314881
Checking your ID

>>18314892
that's absolutely disguting

>>18315031
That's physical addiction with some issues and not a true addict. There is a difference. There are people who piss blood every day and drink from morning until night, can't function in life at all, do and say terrible things they'd never do sober, black out 50% or more of their days, etc. And not matter what they do, if they take one sip, they can't stop.

>>18314861
There is no benefit to drinking. It's a jewish media trick to think you're cool. The past generation's weed.

>>18314899
Good for you, Anon. But learn how to use a comma.

>>18315026
>>18315027
>>18315029

Yup i don't really do much, problem is like i said the ritual ive got myself of bustin chowing down like 3 fried eggs, whole loaf of bread and ham slices after i booze up then park myself to sleep.

Basically my whole day is getting up, getting boozed , eating , sleep.

Im more horrified by this than by amount i drink. Its like i can't escape this fucking shithole ive sunk in----- wich makes me drink to forget.

Shit.

>>18315012
Thats not what my intentions are man sorry if you felt that way, I couldn't quit with rehab either, i did it on my own, i went to three of them and relapsed every time, I guess I didn't have the will power you had to quit with bottles sitting right in front of you

I think that having a few beers a couple times a week could help strengthen your body from succumbing to other pussy disease and illness. Of course everyone has different limits but if you are past age 22-25 and you still get shitty drunk and get hangovers you are fucken up

>>18315041
Nice.

>>18315031
>its all willpower, telling people they need god or fucking medical treatment is akin to shooting yourself in the foot.

I agree with this. Since most addicts here that I saw didn't really take any meds as a substitute.

Most of them worked their ass off to get their minds away from their old habit.

I was just saying that some of the things that I have observed from working near a reformation center here.

When I was working late at night, I can hear some people crying outside because of how shitty they felt.

It's different from person to person from what I have seen, some stay there for 3 months and they're fine. Some stays for more than a year just to get clean.

>>18314861
eventually i got tired of being fatigued 24/7 sleeping 20 hours a day guzzling liquor for the other 4.
i also got a job, but i managed to completely stop before i started work. it wasnt impossible but it was difficult.
bottom line i actually wanted to change

>>18315040
The overeating is more of a problem than your drinking. And it's your way of coping with whatever's going on in your life. Find another way.

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>>18314861
>>>/adv/
also wine is the drink of gentlemen
drinking some now

>>18315037
>That's physical addiction with some issues and not a true addict.
truely shove a stick up your ass.

>>18315049
>also wine is the drink of faggots

>>18315037
Those are just idiots, you can be a functioning addict. You don't have to black out every day and piss blood to be called a addict.

Even if you drink to the point where you black out everyday you can still quit on your own with enough willpower, but they don't want to cause they would rather black out and piss blood

>>18314890
>Finding God is a tried, and true method.

What a great way to drive them all the fuck away. There's a reason alcohol and religion are bitter enemies even more so than other drugs. People don't take up drinking because they care about what God thinks.

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>>18314892
You tell me m8

>>18314861
Get some hobbies or study.
Studying is great for one to stop drinking as drinking counters studying properly. Also a having your liver destroyed isn't fun.

>>18315053
But the opposite it true, a lot DO quit because they care what god thinks.

i got uncles that would be dead right now if they didn't care what god thought

>>18315051
nigger spotted

>>18314861
How is such an ass achieved

>>18314861
Alcoholism is as much a physical dependence as a self-destructive routine. If you want to sober up you need to replace everything you did that led to drinking. The group that drinks with you, the free time that allowed you to drink constantly, and the whatever hole you were trying to fill with drinking.

>>18314896
Bro naltrexone only works because its a replacement drug, naltroxene is 100x more powerful that morphine, quitting it sucks asssssssss, begging for acute alcohol w/d symptoms

>>18314861
Good thing I'm not a subhuman that is addicted to alcohol. In fact, I'm a hypocrite because I'm addicted to nicotine. I just don't know what's worse.

>>18314861
unless you're an alcoholic it's entirely behavioural
even though you're a drunkard island monkey, try to change your drinking habits, count the number of drinks you have and look for alternative social settings that aren't conductive to getting shitfaced

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>>18314991
>Have an embarrassing 5 mile walk home as people driving by can see shit stains on me

the memes are true

>>18315058
The position shes standing lol, she got a flat butt, my girl used to do this all the time and send pictures but in reality her booty was flat

>>18314861
BRAAAAAAAP

What does her asshole smell like???

>>18315040
Move your caravan elsewhere

Just like any other addiction, put yourself in situations where it's hardest to fulfill your addictive urge. I.E. don't stock alcohol in the house, don't go to cheap bars, find other things to do during weekend nights, etc.

Learn to love yourself

Just quit, it's a willpower you must find in yourself. This is coming from someone who decided it was time after finishing an entire bottle of Jameson to himself while he had an entire party to please.

Just quit, it's not hard. You don't gain anything from quitting other than feeling better in social situations and health-wise, but it's worth it, trust me.

If you have severe alcohol addiction, when you go cold turkey, you can black out and go psychotic, end up on life support machines in a hospital somewhere.

Slowly beating the illness, slowly tapering off any way you can is the only option.