stopping boozing (1 Viewer)

[piratecore]

i have been seriously considering this for a while. has anyone else done this? (after being a very naughty person for a good few years) was it difficult?

 

[ann post]

i did it for 14 months cos of tablets once. it was the most boring year of my life. my social life collapsed entirely and i could never figure out what to do between 9 and 2pm on weekends, as everyone i know was always hungover in bed at this time.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

25 May - 14 November 1990.

Soda water and lime all summer!

 

[pete]

I gave up drinking for 2.5 years about 10 years ago after one particularly bad ~14 hour session. The shame made it easy.

 

[piratecore]

ah well drinking is wrecking my social life and getting me into trouble repeatedly because i keep acting like a prick. or rather not being able to disguise the fact that i am a prick.

 

[Love Saves The Day]

i thought it was easy enough to get used to. it's a bit weird going out at first but i didn't miss waking up with a sore head one bit. i liked the fact that my weekend didn't consist of lost sundays anymore and you really feel like you're getting a lot more value for your free time

stopping boozing doesn't have to mean totally cutting it out though.. even cutting it down a little bit makes a big difference

 

[piratecore]

i have tried that but if i have one pint ill drink till im skint/unconscious

 

[ernesto]

i thought it was easy enough to get used to. it's a bit weird going out at first but i didn't miss waking up with a sore head one bit. i liked the fact that my weekend didn't consist of lost sundays anymore and you really feel like you're getting a lot more value for your free time

stopping boozing doesn't have to mean totally cutting it out though.. even cutting it down a little bit makes a big difference

thats harder

 

[pete]

just remember

 

[piratecore]

that is exactly the opposite of what i want to be like lol.

 

[broken arm]

i have tried that but if i have one pint ill drink till im skint/unconscious

are you purely into the alcohol or are you into the taste / experience of beer?

some alcohol free beers are not that bad these days. I had some 0% Cobra beers at a picnic the other day because I was driving.. just enough to not make me hanker for a beer while everyone else was drinking because I don't like having even one beer and driving..

just a way to think about the "transition" and not feeling like an outcast...

actually, do pubs in Ireland even sell alcohol free beers?

 

[piratecore]

some of them do. might try one.

 

[actwithoutwords]

Apart from a couple of nights, I've been mostly off the drink since January. It definitely does affect your social life. At a certain point of the evening in a pub, you just get a bit tired and want to go home, when everyone else is having a mad time altogether. It's hard not to let it affect nights out. It is nice though generally to be a bit clearer in the head most of the time.

I went off it initially as I was training to do a half-marathon and I wanted to beat the shite out of my friends. But after getting lashed after the race, I realised I didn't particularly feel like going back to old habits. So haven't had much since apart from the very odd pint.

Last time I went off it was for about 3 months during my undergrad, as I was in terrible form and hangovers weren't helping my mood. That was an odd experience, particularly at that age, and being a stuuuuuudent. People thought I'd gone mad, going out and not drinking.


Disclaimer: This is all likely to change at any moment. Most likely at Primavera.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

i have tried that but if i have one pint ill drink till im skint/unconscious

Join AA.

 

[piratecore]

nah dont think its came to that yet lol

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I don't know your life but if you literally can't stop drinking after taking a single pint then you have some sort of problem and maybe AA or some other organised help might be necessary. I'm not taking the piss. I've wondered about it for myself before. Is there an atheist version of the AA?

 

[nlgbbbblth]

actually, do pubs in Ireland even sell alcohol free beers?

some pubs try and pass 'em off as regular beers. Becks being a notable example.

 

[Deleted member 3435]

Is there an atheist version of the AA?

I don't think so, partly because the system works for most. They talk about having to give yourself up to "a higher power" rather than God though, I think.

 

[piratecore]

I don't know your life but if you literally can't stop drinking after taking a single pint then you have some sort of problem and maybe AA or some other organised help might be necessary. I'm not taking the piss. I've wondered about it for myself before. Is there an atheist version of the AA?

thats a bit of an exaggeration, i just drink a lot when i go out at the weekends. the ammount i drink isnt really the problem its more the way i act when im drinking that pisses me off, i know that doesnt make sense but you know what i mean.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

thats a bit of an exaggeration, i just drink a lot when i go out at the weekends. the ammount i drink isnt really the problem its more the way i act when im drinking that pisses me off, i know that doesnt make sense but you know what i mean.

Ah right so, carry on. How about drinking shandy or something.