Anyone ever quit drinking?
 

I'm starting to consider quitting for a while. How the fuck do you quit what you do best?

It's such a social thing that I can't imagine no longer doing it.

REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS!!!!!!!!!!!

Definitely not going to rehab. I just need to layoff but once I start I get totally sloshed..

The reason I started my own business is because a regular 9 to 5 job interfered with my drinking habits.

Yeah I work my own hours. My big thing is that getting trashed cuts alot of hours out of my day.

I quit for a few days a week to get some work done. Tomorrow in Atlanta though I'll be in full drinking force. :glugglug

I quit about 25 years ago. Don't get as much trouble now. :Graucho

Never started to drink!

I can quit anything besides smoking ciggies...I use to drink fifth a day I now drink 1 or 2 times a month now if that....I could quit if I had to but I don't see it as problem...

Actually i guess it's going to be later today, i need some sleep.

I need to at least cut back. I guess I'll have to hide from my friends.

My old man always said 3 things to me:

1. Son, NEVER trust a man who won't have a drink with you.

2. My boy, people who do not drink wake up in the morning and KNOW that is the best they are gonna feel all day.

3. If you don't drink, don't smoke and don't do good drugs, you won't actually live longer, it will just SEEM like you do.

:thumbsup

Unitil beer exist it's hard to quit from drinking :)

You can quit smoking but not drinking.
I guess because it's the only thing for me to
be relax.

IMPORTANT FOOTNOTE TO MESSAGE:
I am currently putting together my list (and checking it twice) of people to share a drink or 3 hundred with at mid-year Internexxt in Florida.

I am hoping for a LONG list.

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peole quit drinking?

shut up

I think it would kill me :winkwink:

you change the other habits that go along with drinking.. where you go.. who you hang out with.. what you do in general.. I quit a long time ago, and it changed my life.. for the good ;)

I'll slow down when I have kids.

we'll be there getting fucked with you! :thumbsup

Nobody likes a quitter! ;)

List of people to get retarded drunk with in FLA...
#1965 abyss_al

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I haven't even started.

I stopped drinking 2 or 3 years ago, main reason was that I injured myself when pissed and didn't realise till the next morning and for a couple of months afterwards :(

The only way to give up is to stop, do not ease yourself off, too much chance of having just one more.... and one more......

If you go to the pub, have a Lemon Squash or some other non alcoholic drink, you'll cop a bit of flack from your mates though it dies down pretty quickly.

no

avoid night life, go to the gym, eventually..u will lose interestsin drinking...:BangBang:

Just drinka soda instead.

It's realy no big deal

Take your blasphemy elsewhere.

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I haven't,cheers:glugglug

I quit drinking every night, dude, and it works! :helpme

one word, WHY?
Why would you want to give up such a wonderful thing?

I quit drinking in between conventions and then more than make up for it when they roll around. :1orglaugh


Seriously, limit yourself to once a week or month... find a hobby, start working out... and ONLY drink when you go out, not at home, not with dinner, etc.

I dont drink
its really easy - just stop

you wont do it unless you are ready - just liek smoking you got to do it coz you WANT to - not coz you feel you HAVE to :glugglug

Okay, here goes:

Quitting is easy. Staying quit is harder.

If you don't want to drink, don't drink. That is the easy part. If you want to stop, you just stop. Unless you are specifically physically addicted, you can stop any time.

Harder is to stop drinking with friends, in social situations, etc. Learning how to say no, how to accept the weird looks when you turn down a drink in favor of a soda or water, etc... those are the hard bits. Removing from your life the places, situations, and circumstances most likely to make you drink is hard and that is where will power is required.

Example: Every Saturday night, you go out with friends to clubs / bars / partying / whatever. You have done this for a couple of years. It means drinks, "who is buying the next round" and all that stuff. People keep buying shots, etc. There is tremendous pressure to KEEP DRINKING.

Finding within yourself the strength to say "I just want a bottle of water, thanks" and to stick with it is harder than just stopping.

If you really want to, you can... 3.5 years now without a drop.

Alex

Yeah learning how to say no is a bitch. Especially when women are involved.

That's almost just as bad for your liver.. haha

I'd just ease back on the drinking, no sence in quitting all together.

very well said :thumbsup

nope, and i probably never will - drinking rules :glugglug

i had to stop because of the steroids, i just smoke allot of weed now instead

keep yourself busy by working at night and stay, or if you can't, limit certain occassions where there's lots of drinking involved.

First thing to do is change your nick, or you'll end up having a slide back ;)

nah. I think I'll keep it as a reminder of my retarded years.

Not been drinking since new year:thumbsup

Don't think as you will quit forever, it may sound too strong for you, this better in a "drinking holiday"..

Samuel

[QUOTE]My old man always said 3 things to me:

1. Son, NEVER trust a man who won't have a drink with you.

2. My boy, people who do not drink wake up in the morning and KNOW that is the best they are gonna feel all day.

3. If you don't drink, don't smoke and don't do good drugs, you won't actually live longer, it will just SEEM like you do.[QUOTE]

Your old man was totally right...

:glugglug

Want some good advice hit me on ICQ we can chat it up :glugglug

I have been sober for a while.

why do you want to stop doing something that u do so well????

plus drinking is harmless, a cocktail drink never is a bad idea :)

Oh man, I don't think I could. But good luck on trying that.

why?
doesn't make any sense for me.

I simply luv drinking - but only at the weekend.