how do i stop myself drinking?

Question

i'm not an alcoholic, i just cant resist a few beers at the weekend with my buddies. A few allways becomes 8 or 10!

Answer 1

When u start a sentence with "Am not an alcoholic" its time to look within. Bad sign. Take an online test to see where you stand with your intake.

Binge drinking could be called "normal". but it should not be a weekly thing. I know it might seem harsh, but the only way out of weekend binging is to get a new set of friends. Especially some who drink within the confines of what you would like to take.

If you do find that you have crossed the line then you have no choice but to quit all together. And nobody wants to do that. So stepup and get in line NOW.

Answer 2

Look you may not be alcoholic but by ur question I can sense that you are in the making.
Follow these things it helps u to quit totally.

1. mix three teaspoons of bitter guard leaf juice in a cup of buttermilk and drink everyday early in the morning on an empty stomach regularly for 3 months.

2. keep on eating short eats throught the day

3. eat atleat 10 black grapes every hour.

Follow this and u will never drink again

Wish u all the best

Answer 3

Friend your in the early stage of becoming an Alcoholic. If you don't believe me find a local A.A. group and sit in on a meeting. The first misconception is always NOT ME .

Answer 4

Yes, you should stop drinking. The consequences of drinking alcohol are devastating like liver cancer, depression, public intoxication, other illnesses etc.,

Answer 5

say. dudes, if your going to drink, I cant hang with you...sorry, I dont want to get into that kinda thing beacuse I know it will screw me up, if there friends. they will help you.
have people hold you accountable, if you start to drink have one of them take it and throw it away, if you get mad then you know you have the begining of a problem.
for the people who start the alcholoic CRAP>>>V
ONCE AN ALCHOLIC ALLWAYS AN ALCHOLIC IS CRAP!
If your break yourself of it and learn and teach and make sure you stay away from it like that (or at all) then your not one anymore, your a FORMER alcholic.
and no one said you are right now anyways, I beleve you can stop yourself.
Also, theres no better cure then Jesus Christ and hanging with christian friends who dont drink.

Answer 6

Drink Too Much? (Practical tips on quitting or cutting back):
http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/DrinkTooMuch.html

I've stayed sober for the last 5+ years using online support. I don't like AA and there were no alternatives where I lived.

SOS: http://www.sossobriety.org/

SMART: http://www.smartrecovery.org/

RR: http://www.rational.org/

RecoveryFree: http://www.recoveryfree.com/index.html

Answer 7

First of all, by not being proud of it by calling yourself "Bender". You're programming yourself to drink with that handle. Change it to "DryGuy".

Second, alcohol intoxicates. Toxin means poison. Why are you destroying your brain cells (which do not regenerate) with poison? Why slowly destroy your life? Why not just slit your throat. It's quicker!

Third, set an example for/with your "buddies". They're probably asking the same question, "How do I stop myself drinking?" (See how long they remain your "buddies" if you drink something healthful with them instead of beer.) If y'all're really buddies, you'll help each other stop drinking, and find something healthful to do together, instead. You know drinking's not going to get you anything good in your life.

Or drink near beer. Let them laugh. There are some good tasting near-beers. When I quit drinking, my best "buddy" dropped me like a hot potato. Turns out, all we had going was the drinking.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. Stand for the Preservation of Brain Cells. Be a man. A man lives his own life the way he knows best to live it. He doesn't just, mindlessly, do what the crowd does. You'll respect yourself and everyone else will respect you, too.

I was a social drinker like you. After checking out, what I hope you'll check out on my source: http://bahai.com/ , I quit drinking within 2 months, and I haven't looked back. Don't miss it a bit. Occasionally, I'll have a non-alcoholic beer or non-alcoholic wine, because I enjoy it with Mexican and Italian food; but, don't miss the alcohol a bit. It's a good thing, too; because alcoholism runs in my family: my mother and grandmother were alcoholics. My father took me away from my mother and divorced her. When I caught up with her at about the age of 60, she'd detiorated her brain to the age of a 10-year-old. I have no doubt that, had I not run into Baha'i, I would not be alive today.

Take a peek; and, good luck. I'm so happy you have the desire. It goes like this: First comes knowledge (the awareness that you want to stop), then comes will (the desire to stop), then volition (the act of stopping). You're 2 for 3. Go for it!

My son-in-law had an after-work thing with beer. He dropped dead at 39.

Effect of Obedience to Prophetic Commands

The bearing on health of these commands relating to the simple life, hygiene, abstinence from alcohol and opium, etcetera, is too obvious to call for much comment, although their vital importance is apt to be greatly underestimated. Were they to be generally observed, most of the infectious diseases and a good many others would soon vanish from among men. The amount of illness caused by neglect of simple hygienic precautions and by indulgence in alcohol and opium is prodigious. Moreover, obedience to these commands would not only affect health, but would have an enormous effect for good on character and conduct. Alcohol and opium affect a man’s conscience long before they affect his gait or cause obvious bodily disease, so that the moral spiritual gain from abstinence would be even greater than the physical. With regard to cleanliness, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá says:—“External cleanliness, although it is but a physical thing, has great influence upon spirituality. … The fact of having a pure and spotless body exercises an influence upon the spirit of man.”
Were the commands of the Prophets concerning chastity in sexual relations generally observed, another fertile cause of disease would be eliminated. The loathsome venereal diseases, which wreck the health of so many thousands today, innocent as well as guilty, babes as well as parents, would very soon be entirely a thing of the past. 105
Were the commands of the Prophets concerning justice, mutual aid, loving one’s neighbor as oneself, carried out, how could overcrowding, sweated labor and sordid poverty on the one hand, together with self-indulgence, idleness and sordid luxury on the other, continue to work mental, moral and physical ruin?
Simple obedience to the hygienic and moral commands of Moses, Buddha, Christ, Muhammad or Bahá’u’lláh would do more in the way of preventing disease than all the doctors and all the public health regulations in the world have been able to accomplish. In fact, it seems certain that were such obedience general, good health would also become general. Instead of lives being blighted by disease of cut off in infancy, youth or prime, as so frequently happens now, men would live to a ripe old age, like sound fruits that mature and mellow ere they drop from the bough.

Answer 8

GET someone special in your life and you will straighten out.

Answer 9

SELF CONTROL