How to Quit Drinking Alcohol
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If you feel that you drink too much, these steps may help you quit drinking.
1. Change your attitude about quitting! Remember, you're not being forced to give up a good friend who has treated you well. Instead, you are finally ridding yourself of an awful enemy who has robbed you of many great pleasures in life.
2. Constantly remind yourself of what a great thing you are doing and hold tightly to your quit. Remember that you are pardoning yourself from a life sentence in the prison of alcoholism and you will always hold the key.
3. Try to pick some significant date to quit. Be ambitious, but reasonable. If you are very heavy drinker you must first slow down to avoid withdraws (in this case it is best to have your doctor help you plan your quit date).
4. Get rid of all bottles, cans, etc.
5. Drink a lot of water.
6. Never take another sip.
7. Deny yourself nothing except the alcohol - You can have anything you want, as long as it's not alcohol (so long as you're not replacing the alcohol with another addiction).
8. Don't try to explain quitting or trying to quit to people -- if they themselves are not in this situation, they are unable to fathom what you're trying to do. Many people will try to enable you and convince you to drink so they can feel better about their own addiction.
9. Admit to yourself, and remember it, that there is absolutely nothing in your life more important than this one thing.
10. Do not avoid all situations where you would normally drink. Instead approach them with a good attitude and remember that you can have a good time without drinking.
11. Memorize a prayer, poem or something (i.e. Hamlet's speech "To be or not to be") to repeat to yourself when you are losing your mind; trying to remember it will keep your head together sometimes.
12. Give yourself a prize for every day or every hour that you haven't had a drink.
13. Find a support group. Either in person or on-line. Sometimes just reading other people's success stories is enough motivation. Here's a good online support group http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/
14. Talk to your doctor.
15. Remember steps 2, 5 and 6.
16. "He who conquers others is mighty. He who conquers himself is almighty."
1. Change your attitude about quitting! Remember, you're not being forced to give up a good friend who has treated you well. Instead, you are finally ridding yourself of an awful enemy who has robbed you of many great pleasures in life.
2. Constantly remind yourself of what a great thing you are doing and hold tightly to your quit. Remember that you are pardoning yourself from a life sentence in the prison of alcoholism and you will always hold the key.
3. Try to pick some significant date to quit. Be ambitious, but reasonable. If you are very heavy drinker you must first slow down to avoid withdraws (in this case it is best to have your doctor help you plan your quit date).
4. Get rid of all bottles, cans, etc.
5. Drink a lot of water.
6. Never take another sip.
7. Deny yourself nothing except the alcohol - You can have anything you want, as long as it's not alcohol (so long as you're not replacing the alcohol with another addiction).
8. Don't try to explain quitting or trying to quit to people -- if they themselves are not in this situation, they are unable to fathom what you're trying to do. Many people will try to enable you and convince you to drink so they can feel better about their own addiction.
9. Admit to yourself, and remember it, that there is absolutely nothing in your life more important than this one thing.
10. Do not avoid all situations where you would normally drink. Instead approach them with a good attitude and remember that you can have a good time without drinking.
11. Memorize a prayer, poem or something (i.e. Hamlet's speech "To be or not to be") to repeat to yourself when you are losing your mind; trying to remember it will keep your head together sometimes.
12. Give yourself a prize for every day or every hour that you haven't had a drink.
13. Find a support group. Either in person or on-line. Sometimes just reading other people's success stories is enough motivation. Here's a good online support group http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/
14. Talk to your doctor.
15. Remember steps 2, 5 and 6.
16. "He who conquers others is mighty. He who conquers himself is almighty."
1 comments:
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Wesley was in the military-and soon after leaving-he unveiled hidden, "self mind control" tactics that the CIA and others used to obtain everything they want.
These are the exact same secrets tons of famous people (notably those who "became famous out of nowhere") and the greatest business people used to become wealthy and successful.
You probably know how you only use 10% of your brain.
That's mostly because most of your brainpower is UNCONSCIOUS.
Maybe that expression has even occurred INSIDE OF YOUR own head... as it did in my good friend Wesley Virgin's head about seven years back, while riding a non-registered, beat-up garbage bucket of a car with a suspended license and $3 in his bank account.
"I'm so frustrated with going through life payroll to payroll! When will I finally succeed?"
You've been a part of those those conversations, right?
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