How To Give Up Alcohol

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1. Keep your distance from places and situations where you might feel tempted to drink. Do not go to bars and avoid “drinking buddies” who will not support your attempts to stop drinking.
2. Do away with all the alcohol in the house. If you have a partner or flatmate who drinks, tell them that you are trying to stop drinking and ask them not to drink in your company. If you are serious about stopping drinking, this is a step you have to take.
3. There is a lot of truth in the saying,”take it one day at a time”, I found this to be helpful when I stopped.
4. Let the people close to you know that you want to stop drinking alcohol and only keep the company of people who will be supportive of your cause.
5. Give yourself a reason not to drink and for each day of abstinence give yourself a small reward.
6. Visualize yourself in the future free from alcohol and enjoying life, visualization tools can be found at www.moonfish-design.co.uk.
7. Set some achievable goals, it may not be possible(or safe) to stop drinking immediately,so maybe you should gradually reduce your alcohol intake.
8.Try to understand why you drink, are you drinking to escape your problems? Are your family heavy drinkers? Are you drinking to forget about abuse you have suffered?
9.Start a new hobby or do something which will take your mind off of alcohol.
10. Seek medical advice, your Doctor will be able to prescribe medication to help you to quit and may be able to get you Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which has been proven to help alcoholics to stop drinking.
11. Lastly never give up, if you are serious about quitting drinking then you will.

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How To Give Up Alcohol