how do I quit drinking?

Answer 1

Easy, don't let your friend buy you any more beer.

Answer 2

go to AA
they can help you


http://www.wikihow.com/Quit-Drinking-Alcohol
How to Quit Drinking Alcohol

If you feel that you drink too much, these steps may help you.
Steps

1. Consider that you might want to Get Sober with a 12 Step Program or Quit Drinking Without AA. Alternatively, consider these less formal steps:
2. Do not buy groceries and alcohol at the same time.
3. Pick a day on which to drink (this means don't have a beer or a shot or get buzzed in between). If it helps, privately write down how you felt all week until your first drink.
4. On your designated day, before you drink, or get ready to go out (you might have to really, consciously put effort into this): read/remember how you felt all week, the highs and lows.
5. Avoid drinkers. Plain and simple, stay out of bars. Don't buy cigarettes at booze stores, don't pull alcohol for your friends or family.
6. It's impossible in life to avoid places that involve alcohol; at this vulnerable and sore time in your life, however, never put yourself in situations. If you find yourself in them, then find your way out. Mainly, the same door you came in.


Tips
* Do WHATEVER you have to, but DO NOT have that first drink. If this means AA meetings, religion, a pot of coffee, 10 packs of smokes a day, outpatient programs, counselling, then DO IT. These things become the weapons in the fight for YOUR life.
* Why alcohol is taking over your life is a question that will only be answered when you DON'T let it take over your life. It's like a kind of non-living, evil dictator demon liquid that can only live and breathe and act in the world through you.
* Tell the truth: if someone sees that your behaviour has changed regarding drinking, just say it. "I quit drinking" or "I'm slowing down"... That truth will eventually disarm the pressure that people, places, and events have on you to drink.
* Everything you've just read here took maybe 10-15 mins of your time (and nothing else).

Warnings
* Don't cut way down right away, or you may go on a drinking binge.
* If you are a very heavy drinker, quitting 'cold turkey' can cause life-threatening medical problems.
* The booze has your life, and will fight to keep it.

Answer 3

Go to rehab or meetings if you need to. If you aren't an addict, simply drink something else...near beer, soda, water, juice, smoothies, slushes...while everyone else gets hammered. There is always a good demand for designated drivers.

If it is a serious problem, look at how it is affecting your relationships, your job, your finances, your decisons and priorities.

Avoid people and places where alcohol is served. Get another hobby, find other people to hang with. You don't have to abandon your whole life necessarily but if you are truly an addict, you might consider if these are the right people and activities anyway. And if they are good people who don't abuse alcohol, they will respect your decision to lay low from them for a while, or your request to abstain around you, while you are in a weak state. And all people trying to break a habit are weak at first. I just quit smoking. I couldn't walk into a bar and not smoke if my life depended on it...so I am hanging around the house for a while and my friends understand that. I also make it quick in the gas station.

Related to lifestyle changes...look into the reasons why you drink and see if you can satisfy that need some other way. Some reasons why people drink: to fit in, to unwind, to shake their inhibitions, to celebrate, to hide from unpleasant feelings, to quench thirst, to warm up (although this, as you know, is a myth), for the taste. There are lots of ways to handle these situations besides drinking. Find them.

Try a lot of other beverages to find something else that you like, something readily available in restaurants is helpful. I would think carefully about subbing your fav drinks with the virgin drink...if you drink daquiris or margaritas, going for smoothies or slushes...it could go either way. On one hand, maybe it is enough to get you by, similar and as such, a satisfying experience. On the other hand, maybe it is so similar and yet not the same and could entice you to drink. Up to you, everyone is probably different.

If you feel like you must drink alcohol, drink stuff you hate or makes you sick. That'll teach ya. They also have Antabuse, it is a medication that reacts HORRIBLY with alcohol making you very very sick (not deathly so, just miserable), and used only for the worst alcohol addiction. If you don't really need it, don't take it because you can't use ANTHING with alcohol in it, mouthwash, toiletries, cologne without the same affect as drinking.

Answer 4

You will quit when you want to quit!!!! Dont listen to people telling you that aa is the best way, aa is only there because the gov't/addictions services dont see thru them, the relapse rate of aa is a stunning 97%, so it dont work!!!! You will know in your head when enough is enough!!!! DO NOT get sucked into an AA cult meeting, it's bad stuff....unless you want to give them your mind!!!! And I highly recomend you to just moderate yourself!!! Or just drink up buttercup!!!!!!!

Good Luck(dont go to the cult!)

Answer 5

think of all the embarresing moments or bad experineces next time you go to drink, and try to stay motivated not to drink! thinking of how much money you would save from a night out may also help

Answer 6

Don't buy any booze and stay out of bars.

Answer 7

gust stop drinking
do not have any beer

Answer 8

replace alcohol with sex :)