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So recently I decided to quit drinking and it's been a hard thing to do I was doing pretty well until last Saturday when I had just a terrible day and I gave in and went and got drunk and then I felt like shit for 3 days after. so I'm going to try this again to stop my problem isn't that I'm going out getting drunk every night it's that I'm a binge drinker I can go days or weeks without a drink but then it just keeps on building to the point where I finally go out and start drinking and I start with one and then I have a second then I'm 6 or 8 drinks deep and then I'm just wasted. this is something I've been struggling with for a long time now which why I'm making the decision to stop

abetts499 4 May 31
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I can feel your pain from the other side. My Dad was a binge drinker. HE was actually dry for 13 years once. then drinking cough syrup sent him over the edge. When he drank he did not do anything else. No food even. Just alcohol. Then hospital, AA, and try again. I have no idea what demons he was fleeing, or even if there were root issues.
I would recommend a secular sobriety resource, and counseling (if there are things that you are dealing with). Add to that a group of people who can care, listen, and not judge and you will be ok.
I am hoping you keep trying.

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If you don't use Reddit make an account and join the Stop Drinking sub reddit. Fantastic group.

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Find a group it helps to have someone to talk to

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Just a blip don't worry just take it day by day that's what I do

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I've gotten into the heavy drinking habit more than once. For me it's always been easier to stop if I had something else to fall back on. Traveling is a nice way to reset, but a hobby or taking a deeper interest in something you already do is probably a better long term solution. Drinking is time consuming, you need to fill up that time with something rewarding or else you fall right back into it eventually.

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Try to find a behavior that you can replace the drinking with. Smoothies maybe. Healthy ones for every day and decadent ones for when you need a little comfort. Also, I strongly recommend drinking as much water as possible. Find someone you can trust to help distract you when you're really feeling that urge.

Plan your meals, make a lunch and take it to work instead of bar food and booze....you did not mention if you smoke, so if you are doing cigs, cigars, pipes, get off that poison that often leads to booze in one hand and fire burning tobacco/rope in the other hand....all of the advice is excellent below, but if you do reach out to someone face to face, beware of referrals to 12 step religion of AA....there are secular sobriety support groups, rational recovery....don't drive drunk, don't drink in bars.... wind down if you like getting a slight buzz with wine or beer with V8 juice....post notes on your fridge and mirrors you are in charge of your beverage choices....filtered water, plain club soda, tea, lemon flavored water, squeeze a lime into your ice cold water.... if coffee is your thing, be careful with too hot brew....take showers, take baths, stimulate yourself with a vibrating chair, anything to give you pleasure that is not poison ethanol....call friends who are sober and chat with them instead of staring at a John Daniels bottle or Russian Bear Wodka

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I used to be just like you. the main thing is you know you don't like it and are actively trying to stop. I had literally loads of times like that but in the end, I completely stopped which is the only way for me.

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don't do it alone. Good for you to decide to stop

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I stopped drinking and smoking. I haven't smoked in 18 years but I have started drinking again in limited form . Beer in my frige is over a month old and I have Sangria wine sometimes. If I do go over my limit I regret it and I feel it. Sometimes I want to come home and just get drunk. I make maybe 2 drinks and quit. You have to figure out why you are drinking and what attracts you to it.

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Good choice. We are always here to give you support !

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Go you! It's worth the struggle to get that out of your life. Sometimes the assistance of a medical professional is beneficial. Every person's struggle is different.
This site helped me a lot:
[smartrecovery.org]

Getting in contact with a therapist would be good you may have issues in life that need to be dealt with.

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?? I don't get it - can't you get cannabis edibles where you live? No hangover, non-addictive, makes you feel peaceful and happy, and cures cancer among many other things.

What's not to love?

i can't like this enough!! i'm in texas and it will prob be legal the day after i die.
...now we got that dumbass mother fucker jeff sessions as the a/g and he claims that legalization causes violent crime. he's doing his best to get it back to illegal in states that have legalized it for recreational.... medical mj has passed in az but i don't think it's legal for rec. i took this pic in jamaica...it was growing like 5' from the street. it was a happy day! now i'm back in tx..

@SeeCanU All that's needed is a vacation to CO, or most people have friends who have friends who know someone.

@birdingnut it's the getting caught thingy that i'm worried about. i DO need another vacation though.

@mudhen The exact opposite. Alcohol is dangerous, damages the liver and is addictive. Most people drink too much because they are unhappy.

Cannabis HEALS the body, and in older people it actually rejuvenates the brain, it cures a host of serious diseases, including cancer, and it can be taken many ways.

Smoking doesn't do much to cure disease, but there's cannabis oil (which I take for cancer, and the cancer is receding), edibles, and other ways to get it. It's prescribed in hospitals in Spain. It stops pain, calms the mind, and stops depression.

Quote from link:
"Without cannabis, mature and aged mice performed worse on the tests than young mice did. But after the elderly animals were given cannabis THC, their performances improved to the point that they resembled those of young, untreated mice. “The effects were very robust, very profound,” Zimmer says."

[scientificamerican.com]

@mudhen You sound like you work for the Big Pharm, LOL! The US medical society banned cannabis so they could push their own synthetic toxic drugs.

Landmark Study Shows Half of Cancer Patients are Killed by Chemo — NOT Cancer [thefreethoughtproject.com]

BBC News - Growing evidence that cannabis oil can cure serious diseases like cancer [bbc.com]

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Might want to get checked out for diabetes. There has been work done on the relationship between alcohol, sugar and insulin and it turns out that binge drinkers have insulin resistance and their blood sugar does strange things that helps drive the behaviour. So never drink on an empty stomach and get your blood sugar checked.

Kimba Level 7 May 31, 2018

Wise input to a past tragic problem.

This is VERY good advice.

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