>Day 0 Pour the booze down the drain, filled with resolve. Going to make this happen. >Day 1 Feeling pretty steady. Urge to kick back with a drink is still there but you can ignore it. >Day 2 Shakes and sweats are starting. Can't sleep for shit. Everything is too loud, too bright and too fucking boring. >Day 3 Rage and restlessness. Bargaining with yourself. "Just one drink to calm the nerves." Have to hide the keys from yourself so you can't drive to the liquor store. >Day 4 Total, black, roiling despair. >Day 5 Raw and empty. Can't even get out of bed. Without booze to look forward to, what's the point? >Day 6 Something's different. Urges have faded into the background. They're there but they can be ignored. Your senses seem sharper, your emotions more present. Noticing smells, textures, details in your surroundings you never appreciated before. >Day 7 You feel like you're tuning back into a reality you've been absent from for years, bit by bit. You realize you don't even want a drink now. If someone offered, you'd refuse. You don't want to go back in the memory hole any more. You have a new feeling creeping into the gaping hole you used to fill with booze and nihilism. It's hope.
Quitting the sauce is the best investment you can make for yourselves on a financial, physical, mental and spiritual level. All you have to do is stick with it for one week. If you can hold on for a whole week, you'll wake up enough that you won't ever want to go back to the liquid jew again. Once you remember what it's like to feel an emotion organically or to wake up well-rested and un-hung-over, you'll wonder why you ever touched that poison in the first place.
I made it 3 months before relapse, been back to daily drinking for a month and a half or so. Very disappointed in myself
Nicholas Kelly
Ayyy good for you!
Easton Clark
Glad I never drank as a teenager so I don’t have to fight off shitty addictions like you op
Thomas Johnson
Good for you fren, did you figure out which niche you're going to dump your addiction demon into?
Luis Parker
I was thinking either getting into PMs or possibly checking out legacy MTG, both for investment and for playing. I know it's just another addiction but at least it isn't toxic to all the cells in my body.
based but be careful with quitting cold turkey, you can potentially die if your addiction was bad or has lasted a long time. youll want to taper off instead.
use this great resource to learn how. no mumbo jumbo just straight facts:
www.hams.cc
also AA is trash.
Jonathan Gomez
What's your rationale? You are slowly killing your ability to feel real emotion or form memories at all. Aren't you curious what it would be like to do those things again?
Carson Fisher
I don't want to. Life is intolerable sober.
Dominic Cook
I do guns, ammo, and PM. My impulsiveness has started to slow a bit finally
Logan Richardson
>Ovyyy SHUT IT DOWN faggot beer makes you fat and unmotivated Yes, drinking is fine, in moderation but most anons are very blackpilled and turn to the bottle for escape from this clown world I've been a week sober now and honestly I haven't felt this good in a long time. Does it suck? Yes, for the first 3 days for sure but those cravings aren't cravings bro. It's a literal fucking addiction I value life and I am trying to take care of myself.
It's all so tiresome. But self-improvement is one of the best investments. Money isn't everything.
>He can't go two days without drinking How do you get to this stage in your life? I only drink like one day a week max, and there are several months of the year I don't drink at all. Drinking doesn't make me feel happy or good, it just makes social situations a little more fun. Also hangovers suck major ass, why would you subject yourself to that constantly.
Michael Bailey
>getting into PMs bro, the train left the station. Run and jump on while you still can. Feel bad for you paying those (((premiums))). Mines aren't coming back online anytime soon or at all in the foreseeable future.
Xavier Ross
I don't get how people get addicted to alcohol its not even really fun just do mushrooms or something
Ethan Morales
I quit on jan 8 and have been doing fine but today I've really wanted a beer idk why.
Ian Morgan
You're thinking too much about not drinking which ironically makes you think even more about drinking. Just be more aware of everything you are doing at every moment and get rid of the ego with some psychedellics and zen
Matthew Williams
I sincerely used to feel this way. >Like...fuck...everything is soooo boring, might as well be fucked up. You know what? Sometimes that's true. But you constantly blasting your mind with poison is not real entertainment. I had friends and a good life and when I quit drinking, it got even better. I really had FOMO about drinking, but after a few months, everything somehow got so much better that I didn't miss it. I've relapsed a few times and then when I step on the scale and see the weight gain and look at how shitty and puffy my face looks and am honest with how I've spent my time since picking the bottle back up, I remember why I quit.
People notice, user. Put the bottle down. Everything will get better. There's nothing wrong with boredom. Boredom is an excellent motivator. I play guitar, exercise, and read books now in addition to everything I did before. I somehow have the time for all of it because I'm not fucked up morning, noon, and night. You will realize your goals. Yas Forums related, I now have so much more disposable income to lose on crypto, kek.
You can and should quit, but it has to come from within. Good luck.
Josiah Wood
Thanks for the motivation. I always thought I was stronger than my family’s history with alcoholism. Problem drinking has now turned into a drinking problem. I drink everyday. Even had the occasional morning brew, before work kek or slamming an airplane bottle on my way home after work. Wtf is wrong with me kek I used to look down at the sad sack drunks I grew up with. I guess I still want to be able to drink socially, but I think I fucked that up. Thanks again fren
Jaxon Foster
This isn't to shame you at all, but people notice your drinking. I guarantee it. Alcoholism lends a strange hubris and combined with the lowered inhibitions...it's not pretty. You noticed their addictions, and people notice yours. Don't feel ashamed because that's not productive, just imagine how awesome it's gonna be to have them watch you rise. I was right there with you, bro. I was drinking like 12 drinks a day minimum and then I started bartending and I thought it was perfect because I could drink even more and have a justification. Holy fuck. It was off the rails for a while there. Also, on social drinking; it's fun and there's nothing wrong with social drinking. But now I do shit with friends that isn't drinking. Sometimes I have to organize it because it's so much easier for someone else to be like "Yo, meet me at XYZ Bar," but it's worth it. And if you end up at a bar, just get a soda water with lime. Nobody can tell it's not a vodka soda and bartenders oftentimes know what's up with you and will keep it sly with you. At least every bartender I knew did. Also, unironically /r/stopdrinking. You will not regret gaining control over your life and you will have extra money and time coming out of your ears after a bit lol No problemo, bro. Go for it!
Hudson Jones
Haven’t had a beer since December 28
Michael Rogers
5 months sober here
Noah Butler
Literally just went through this, with cocaine too. I still want to drink, I can hear the feeling of it in my head but I know I’m not ready to drink again yet. Trying to break myself of the bender habit I had fallen into after nearly a decade of partying. Feels like a large weight has been lifted but now I’m kinda floating. Like I have so much energy and brain power to give but it’s radiant, I can’t focus it. It’s very overwhelming
Noah Wood
don't mention that you can get good sleep again, i cried the first time i woke up with no hangover and no brain fog
Parker Collins
Agreed. Doesn’t it feel like your battery is now at 100% and you don’t know what to do with it? I want to channel it to something constructive but I don’t know how really
Asher Cox
>wake up well-rested and un-hung-over never mind, carry on
All my drug energy went into my sex drive and now I'm trying to rope that in....
David Hall
this
Tried quitting for at least a week so many times. I've become a god at withstanding all the shit that comes with it too. After a while you just realise again how life is still shit despite not drinking, so you get back on it and it's a little bit better at least.
Juan Wright
>Gatekeeping addiction
Lol
Jack Murphy
Going for it bro. Nervous for the withdrawls but fuck it, I put myself here. I might have to crawl out, but I’m escaping this pit.
Hunter Wright
check out the articles page on hams.cc with how to taper. cold turkey can be dangerous.
