quitting drinking will be much more difficult for me than smoking. i like a drink every once in awhile. but i am going to try to at least go a month without a drink, my plan is to only drink twice a year, on my birthday and new years eve, just 2 or 3 drinks those nights. i only smoked for a couple years but i’ve drank for 18 years now. with one 13 month break in there. this is going to be difficult.
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Congratulations on the cigarettes. Best of luck with the alcohol.
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yea congrats with the smokes!
and i hope you will do well stopping drinking too =)
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Oh I thought I was the only one that drinking would be harder to quit than smoking
Drinking was harder I needed naltrexone
Cigarettes I could have a whole pack in theory and not smoke them for months, years maybe.
I guess I didn’t quit nicotine totally but alcohol always called my name more than tobacco /nicotine
Good luck @Lifer
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i tried the same strategy for quitting drinking as i did with smoking. drink alot the night before quitting, and then get sick, and never touch the stuff again. but for some reason it didn’t work, i barely even got buzzed i just got dehydrated. i had like 9 beers yesterday which is much more than i normally drink, but i think because i’ve been drinking more frequently this past month, i am developing a tolerance again, like in my 20’s. anyways i quit today, i told mom and dad to not buy any alcohol and they said they would hide it from me haha.
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Good luck. I use to binge drink at parties and on the weekend when I was in high school and university but I haven’t had a drink since 2004 when I was first put on meds, my doctors told me not to mix alcohol with my meds and I never have. Sometimes I’d like an ice cold beer…
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it is now day 37 no smoking and day 4 no drinking. i don’t have any alcohol in the house of course, but mom and dad have a lot of wine in the fridge at their house.
ive been drinking more coffee. will try to cut down to 1 cup a day next month.
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I quit smoking too, 13 years ago.
It’s all hard at first, but I don’t think about drinking or smoking anymore. It’s no longer a part of my lifestyle. It takes time but cravings will eventually pass.
I still drink coffee and tea.
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Man, did I miss this post…
I just got this in the mail today. It’s basically the workbook I’m going to use to get off that hoo-fab. It offers non-faith based recovery strategies. There are also meetings that I’m going to. Well, I’ve been to 1 and it was nuts actually…
But I’m looking forward to reading it and participating in group sessions.
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Great job dude !!!
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