Benefits of quitting alcohol

Benefits of abstaining from Alcohol

No blackouts. No hangovers. No vomiting constantly over every piece of sentient furniture. No drunken hook-ups with strangers you cannot remember the next morning with your pants down. Increased self-worth. More money. Better overall health. Increased self-trust. Lack of emotional numbness. Sharpened concentration and memory aptitudes. A genuine sense of personal freedom in not having to remember what drunken psychotic misfire you did last night, freedom of self-discipline, the joy and freedom of choice. More time to chose what you want to do. The increased ability to moderate the intake of other substances, due to improved sound judgment and lack of drunken loss of impulse control. Increased sobriety (duh). No sex with people you barely remember or care about. No chance of getting a DUI. No waking up hungover and unable to work. No car wrecks. No abused children. Less violence. The inability to experience hardcore delirium tremens. A strong sense of peace of mind. Being present-minded in all of your affairs, executing sounder judgment and open minded reasoning aptitudes.

You might have a serious problem with Alcohol if you drink for two years after delirium tremens. Your constant motivations for a living are, “Poor me…poor me…pour me yet another drink.” When you begin stashing bottles all around the house to ensure you always have a fix ready. When you have not bathed, showered, or changed clothes in weeks, the rent is overdue, and you do not give two shits because there is a fresh bottle of Bacardi 141 staring you in the face.

When you say you have one drink then head home, ending up waking up naked in a tree, still wasted to utter blacked out oblivion, with your clothes stuck to another tree. When you have sex with a girl at the club and wake up realizing she doesn’t look or act like anyone you want to have as a partner, but you banged her anyway. When Saint Patrick’s day is your national holiday to get so drunk, you make passes at everyone and destroy public property. When the cops say you’re getting a DUI for driving while intoxicated, your so drunk, you believe you’re getting a medal for driving while interested. When you make a pass at any woman regardless of her age, puke in your parents’ bathroom, and use the pet turtle as a toilet.

When you don’t tip at a restaurant to buy more shots of whisky, then give the girl waitresses tips anyways just for a quickie. When you drink vodka straight out of the bottle with no chaser, then climb an actively electrified fence after three more shots of Everclear. When you puke on your parent’s wedding anniversary cake, and puke on the 400$ suit the rented for you to attend the occasion with because you inhaled all the champagne and tequila. When you drive down the highway at eighty miles per hour after downing a keg of rum and somehow not getting arrested because your tolerance is that high. When you know beer brands, better than the names of your children. When every hour is a perpetual Happy Hour, one is too much, and a million is never enough. When you believe driving drunk helps you “relax” on the road (red flag of doom).

Your daily schedule includes every bar and tavern in your neighborhood. Your daily schedule includes only associating with other heavy drinkers every weekend. Your daily schedule includes only associating with other heavy drinkers every day. You judge cannabis users but cannot go one day without getting drunk and cannot drink moderately. Every weekend you remember nothing about what you did or said to anyone. Every morning you wake up in withdrawal, your bones shaking, muscles broken, no ability to remember anything you did the night before or who you slept around with before regretting the first one. You have sex with everyone except your significant other and use being drunk as a ready made excuse. You down a fifth of tequila, spin wildly like a drunken balarina into a palm tree, then get amnesia for months. You get drunk on a fifth of Jack and wake up with groupie sex the night after your bachelor party.

You get drunk in Vegas, bet every dime in your pocket and lose all your money, except for the amount needed to pour yourself other several drinks. You wake up still drunk and take shots in the morning to “maintain” because it kills the hangover. You look forward to the first drink, regardless of whether it is in the morning, or afternoon, or night, or dusk, or even if you are sober and not wanting to drink. Your barflies are your family more than your real family. When your wife yells at you time for a drink. When your wife wants to make love it’s time for drinking the entire bottle of champagne beforehand.

Ways to Quit Drinking: Take up cardiovascular exercise. Improve your diet. Practice meditation several times per day. Make a list of every craving you have for liquor and replace drinking with another activity, which will give you the same level of satisfaction. Make a list of every incident in which you believed drinking would solve the problem, then list the real result. Moderate cannabis use. Psychedelics when applying set & setting, Ibogaine, LSD, Psilocybin. Acupuncture or electro box treatment to deal with short-term cravings and psychological changes during the early stages of detoxification. Taking up swimming laps, it does wonders for the endorphins. New hobbies, or taking up old hobbies again which you had forgotten while always drunk. Reduce drinking slowly, using Nalexatrone (The Sinclair Method) to eliminate physical cravings over time. The drug removes the pleasure associated with being drunk, just as methadone reduces the pleasure from heroin, making the high pointless, and the cravings, therefore, easier to resist. Most importantly of all, cease judging yourself for your fallibilities and sins, especially if you relapse, as it will only ever ensure more recurrent episodes of relapse and more failure.