Quit Drinking Now

[Anonymous No.18688103]

>Day 0
Pour the booze down the drain, filled with resolve. Going to make this happen.
>Day 1
Feeling pretty steady. Urge to kick back with a drink is still there but you can ignore it.
>Day 2
Shakes and sweats are starting. Can't sleep for shit. Everything is too loud, too bright and too fucking boring.
>Day 3
Rage and restlessness. Bargaining with yourself. "Just one drink to calm the nerves." Have to hide the keys from yourself so you can't drive to the liquor store.
>Day 4
Total, black, roiling despair.
>Day 5
Raw and empty. Can't even get out of bed. Without booze to look forward to, what's the point?
>Day 6
Something's different. Urges have faded into the background. They're there but they can be ignored. Your senses seem sharper, your emotions more present. Noticing smells, textures, details in your surroundings you never appreciated before.
>Day 7
You feel like you're tuning back into a reality you've been absent from for years, bit by bit. You realize you don't even want a drink now. If someone offered, you'd refuse. You don't want to go back in the memory hole any more. You have a new feeling creeping into the gaping hole you used to fill with booze and nihilism. It's hope.

Quitting the sauce is the best investment you can make for yourselves on a financial, physical, mental and spiritual level. All you have to do is stick with it for one week. If you can hold on for a whole week, you'll wake up enough that you won't ever want to go back to the liquid jew again. Once you remember what it's like to feel an emotion organically or to wake up well-rested and un-hung-over, you'll wonder why you ever touched that poison in the first place.

You promise me you'll at least try, right?

[Anonymous No.18688125]

>>18688103
16 months yesterday since my last drink. Godspeed anons

[Anonymous No.18688132]

>>18688103
real addiction doesn't fade after 7 days you fucking moron.

[Anonymous No.18688139]

Lmao these niggas really can't just have a beer

[Anonymous No.18688146]

>>18688103
I made it 3 months before relapse, been back to daily drinking for a month and a half or so. Very disappointed in myself

[Anonymous No.18688157]

>>18688125
Ayyy good for you!

[Anonymous No.18688163]

>>18688103
Glad I never drank as a teenager so I don’t have to fight off shitty addictions like you op

[0x48a1689816A6e6Faf5522C0D01f9(...) No.18688170]

>>18688103
Good for you fren, did you figure out which niche you're going to dump your addiction demon into?

[Anonymous No.18688212]

>>18688170
I was thinking either getting into PMs or possibly checking out legacy MTG, both for investment and for playing. I know it's just another addiction but at least it isn't toxic to all the cells in my body.

[Anonymous No.18688223]

never quitting

[Anonymous No.18688236]

>>18688103
based but be careful with quitting cold turkey, you can potentially die if your addiction was bad or has lasted a long time. youll want to taper off instead.

use this great resource to learn how. no mumbo jumbo just straight facts:

www.hams.cc

also AA is trash.

[Anonymous No.18688311]

>>18688223
What's your rationale? You are slowly killing your ability to feel real emotion or form memories at all. Aren't you curious what it would be like to do those things again?

[Anonymous No.18688329]

>>18688311
I don't want to. Life is intolerable sober.

[Anonymous No.18688406]

>>18688212
>>18688170
I do guns, ammo, and PM. My impulsiveness has started to slow a bit finally

[Anonymous No.18688450]

>>18688139
>Ovyyy
SHUT IT DOWN
faggot beer makes you fat and unmotivated
Yes, drinking is fine, in moderation but most anons are very blackpilled and turn to the bottle for escape from this clown world
I've been a week sober now and honestly I haven't felt this good in a long time. Does it suck? Yes, for the first 3 days for sure but those cravings aren't cravings bro. It's a literal fucking addiction
I value life and I am trying to take care of myself.

It's all so tiresome. But self-improvement is one of the best investments. Money isn't everything.

[Anonymous No.18688456]

>He can't go two days without drinking
How do you get to this stage in your life? I only drink like one day a week max, and there are several months of the year I don't drink at all. Drinking doesn't make me feel happy or good, it just makes social situations a little more fun. Also hangovers suck major ass, why would you subject yourself to that constantly.

[Anonymous No.18688464]

>>18688212
>getting into PMs
bro, the train left the station. Run and jump on while you still can.
Feel bad for you paying those (((premiums))). Mines aren't coming back online anytime soon or at all in the foreseeable future.

[Anonymous No.18688476]

I don't get how people get addicted to alcohol its not even really fun just do mushrooms or something

[Anonymous No.18688513]

I quit on jan 8 and have been doing fine but today I've really wanted a beer idk why.

[Anonymous No.18688517]

You're thinking too much about not drinking which ironically makes you think even more about drinking. Just be more aware of everything you are doing at every moment and get rid of the ego with some psychedellics and zen

[Anonymous No.18688689]

>>18688329
I sincerely used to feel this way.
>Like...fuck...everything is soooo boring, might as well be fucked up.
You know what? Sometimes that's true. But you constantly blasting your mind with poison is not real entertainment. I had friends and a good life and when I quit drinking, it got even better. I really had FOMO about drinking, but after a few months, everything somehow got so much better that I didn't miss it. I've relapsed a few times and then when I step on the scale and see the weight gain and look at how shitty and puffy my face looks and am honest with how I've spent my time since picking the bottle back up, I remember why I quit.

People notice, anon. Put the bottle down. Everything will get better. There's nothing wrong with boredom. Boredom is an excellent motivator. I play guitar, exercise, and read books now in addition to everything I did before. I somehow have the time for all of it because I'm not fucked up morning, noon, and night. You will realize your goals. /biz/ related, I now have so much more disposable income to lose on crypto, kek.

You can and should quit, but it has to come from within. Good luck.

[Anonymous No.18688787]

>>18688689
Thanks for the motivation. I always thought I was stronger than my family’s history with alcoholism. Problem drinking has now turned into a drinking problem. I drink everyday. Even had the occasional morning brew, before work kek or slamming an airplane bottle on my way home after work. Wtf is wrong with me kek I used to look down at the sad sack drunks I grew up with. I guess I still want to be able to drink socially, but I think I fucked that up. Thanks again fren

[Anonymous No.18689052]

>>18688787
This isn't to shame you at all, but people notice your drinking. I guarantee it. Alcoholism lends a strange hubris and combined with the lowered inhibitions...it's not pretty. You noticed their addictions, and people notice yours. Don't feel ashamed because that's not productive, just imagine how awesome it's gonna be to have them watch you rise.
I was right there with you, bro. I was drinking like 12 drinks a day minimum and then I started bartending and I thought it was perfect because I could drink even more and have a justification. Holy fuck. It was off the rails for a while there.
Also, on social drinking; it's fun and there's nothing wrong with social drinking. But now I do shit with friends that isn't drinking. Sometimes I have to organize it because it's so much easier for someone else to be like "Yo, meet me at XYZ Bar," but it's worth it. And if you end up at a bar, just get a soda water with lime. Nobody can tell it's not a vodka soda and bartenders oftentimes know what's up with you and will keep it sly with you. At least every bartender I knew did.
Also, unironically /r/stopdrinking. You will not regret gaining control over your life and you will have extra money and time coming out of your ears after a bit lol
No problemo, bro. Go for it!

[Anonymous No.18689079]

>>18688103
Haven’t had a beer since December 28

[Anonymous No.18689088]

>>18688103
5 months sober here

[Anonymous No.18689105]

>>18688103
Literally just went through this, with cocaine too.
I still want to drink, I can hear the feeling of it in my head but I know I’m not ready to drink again yet. Trying to break myself of the bender habit I had fallen into after nearly a decade of partying.
Feels like a large weight has been lifted but now I’m kinda floating. Like I have so much energy and brain power to give but it’s radiant, I can’t focus it. It’s very overwhelming

[Anonymous No.18689130]

>>18688103
don't mention that you can get good sleep again, i cried the first time i woke up with no hangover and no brain fog

[Anonymous No.18689132]

>>18688450
Agreed. Doesn’t it feel like your battery is now at 100% and you don’t know what to do with it? I want to channel it to something constructive but I don’t know how really

[Anonymous No.18689151]

>>18689130
>>18688103
>wake up well-rested and un-hung-over
never mind, carry on

[Anonymous No.18689202]

>>18688103
All my drug energy went into my sex drive and now I'm trying to rope that in.... >>18689132

[Anonymous No.18689211]

>>18688132
this

Tried quitting for at least a week so many times. I've become a god at withstanding all the shit that comes with it too. After a while you just realise again how life is still shit despite not drinking, so you get back on it and it's a little bit better at least.

[Anonymous No.18689239]

>>18688132
>Gatekeeping addiction

Lol

[Anonymous No.18689243]

>>18689052
Going for it bro. Nervous for the withdrawls but fuck it, I put myself here. I might have to crawl out, but I’m escaping this pit.

[Anonymous No.18689290]

>>18689243
check out the articles page on hams.cc with how to taper. cold turkey can be dangerous.

[Anonymous No.18689319]

>>18689290
Appreciate the link fren. You’re a good dude

[Anonymous No.18689416]

>>18688450
>beer makes you fat
... said the sissy boy as he poured an Absolut-cocowater
Beer makes you fat if you're some scrawny computerfag or a woman. There are shitlod of guys who stay fit well into their 40's , being on the beer since they're fifteen

Well done on quiting though, just don't fool yourself in thinking the problem is the beer itself. You started consuming in a unhealthy way to fill some kind of void which will still be there once you've stopped. How you adress it without alcohol is the other half of the battle

[Anonymous No.18689422]

>>18688103
Great post OP. Thanks for the encouragement. I admitted to my child hood friend yesterday (who I rarely see) that I was an alchoholic (nobody really knows.... they know I drink a lot but nobody knows the extent). Woke up with new resolve today. Am on the path.

[Anonymous No.18689432]

>>18688146
>>18688223
>>18688329
>>18689243

take naltrexone as described in the Sinclair Method
https://www.the-sinclair-method.com/
https://cthreefoundation.org/the-sinclair-method
https://www.sinclairmethod.org/

[Anonymous No.18689440]

>>18688456
>How do you get to this stage in your life?
I don’t rightly know to be honest.

I think the max sober I’ve had lately is 5 days. although I feel sober after drinking nowadays.

It’s just a nice to have that quiets things.

[Anonymous No.18689454]

>>18689432
That requires going to a doctor and letting it be on record that you have a problem.

[Anonymous No.18689555]

>>18688103
Luckily I never had problems with alcohol or drugs. I got hooked up on nicotine in my mid teens, and it scared me because I thought I could get hooked up on other substances as easy as nicotine. I salute you on staying sober, and as the fat beer drinking anon said, the problem was not the booze itself. The longer I exist in this clown world, the more I realise why people try to escape it with drugs, booze, and promiscuity.

[Anonymous No.18689624]

>>18688103
Cheers, I'll drink to that.

[Anonymous No.18689710]

Because of 12 steps depiction in movies and tv series, I am now convinced that every american either is an alcoholic or a teetotaler with those goddamn "6 months" tokens, no middle ground

[Anonymous No.18689894]

>>18688689
Thanks for this. Am drunk now with a family history of alcoholism and a personal streak of problem drinking. Feels better saying with a degree of relative anonymity. But thank you for posting, I appreciate it anon

[Anonymous No.18690007]

>>18688103
giving up drinking and drugs is one of the best things that’s ever happened to me

11 months since my last speedball

>>18689202
I get it anon. I got sober & fit and am regularly womanizing now. It’s great to have libido again

[Anonymous No.18690277]

>>18688103
Mfw never been drunk before. Even when I was a kid I would refuse beer and wine offers from my relatives because I saw the effect it had on them, they are all huge alcoholics. Imagine getting yourself addicted to substances lmao.

[Anonymous No.18690428]

>>18689555
This is a 5/5 post anon. Just sometimes I have to tilt my hardrive and there are no benefits for me staying sober all the time.
I do get my head fucked up from time to time, but I also take care of myself and can go months sober.

[Anonymous No.18690766]

>>18690277
A vast vast majority of alcoholics start when they're young and use it as a crutch. Honestly, if you had a few drinks you'd probably like it and not become addicted or dependent. As long as you drink responsibly there's no real problems my friend.