How do I stop drinking alcohol for good, /pol/? This shit is ruining my life.

>>507842747 (OP)
Cold Turkey

just do it faggot. it's not that difficult unless you're already a full blown alcoholic

>>507842747 (OP)
I am using hydroxyzine for emergencies and beer only

get addicted to a winners drug like adderall instead

if you must be a loser, then THC

>>507842747 (OP)
Just stop.

>>507842747 (OP)
>The Boozy Jew. How do I stop drinking alcohol for good, /pol/? This shit is ruining my life.
Quit drinking, are you delusional? The best type of people are happy drunk fucks..... I'm one of them.
Mastered the Kekagengiki drinking makes this life fun again, I've been sober for 35years of my life.
Now I regret not drinking..... Fucking eating those apples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTeg1txDv8w

>>507842747 (OP)
GO
TO
A
SUPPORT
GROUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>But I don't want to... too shameful!
VERY hard to do it by yourself (but possible).
You can't do it cold turkey.
You have to wane yourself off it.
Build self control.
Do you have a drink in front of you now?
Practice by repeatedly grabbing it with your hand as if to drink it, then stop yourself.
Put it somewhere else.
Then repeat. Practice by grabbing it again, then stopping yourself again.
Eventually you will build up the ability to control your habit.
But trust me a support group is way easier. Also, you WILL relapse. Don't get yourself down too hard about it. Just quit again.

>>507843302
>it's not that difficult unless you're already a full blown alcoholic
If OP wasn't, he wouldn't be asking, idiot.

>>507843756
Find the reason why you drink and work hard to get over it. For me it's being with my friends on the weekend. I needed to get plastered to get loose so I just stopped going out as much

>>507844147
this is the problem. It DOES make you more sociable and fun to be around. no drinking = no social life. I've done the same thing, and I don't really regret it, but it is true.

>>507843756
Weak faggot, just quit drinking.
Get a hobby, I replaced alcohol with rc cars. Ez.

>>507842747 (OP)
bot threat, but for everyone else, stuff yourself with starchy fibrous foods and abstain from fat.
a full stomach can't consume alcohol.

If you are a legitimate alcoholic (there is a tendency to overstate this among people) then you need to get yourself off it slowly but surely. Use assistance and whatever help you can get, it’s a case of whatever works. If you’re just drinking too much then it is quite literally a case of doing it less. I enjoy a few drinks every now and again but that’s about it. Haven’t been drunk in years and haven’t thrown up in decades. I have known maybe five legitimate alcoholics in my time, the rest were just heavy drinkers. There is a difference and you’ll know, deep down, if you’re one or the other

i stop buying it, and if there is nothing in the house you can't drink it.

but then again when i do buy it, it goes pretty quick hey. but its a process.

>>507842747 (OP)
>"What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you still live?"

>>507842747 (OP)
Ibogaine or it's non psychedelic and non toxic derivative Tabernathalog which you can buy at everychem.com

>>507842747 (OP)
just smoke weed instead you homo

Drink some Busch Light and mow your lawn, go fishing...you can still drink, just do something else while you drink so you dont/cant get fall down drunk...white man been drinking for thousands of years, no need to stop bow...just dont be a degenerate faggot about it.

>>507842747 (OP)
alco is fucking disgusting
you just got used to it
now do the opposite

>>507842747 (OP)
Try switching to another vice, like weed or food. Or use ChatGPT as a therapist and get down to the real issues that make you drink.

>>507842747 (OP)
I drink a lot as well bro. Lost my job, lost my friends. I do not have a family. Luckily its a bit less lately but I can see myself drinking more this week. Not sure what to do about it either.

>>507842747 (OP)
>How do I stop drinking alcohol for good, /pol/? This shit is ruining my life.
weed

>>507844361
I dunno your age. I am 30. At some point you have to be an adult and accept those days are over

>>507843402

Unironically the best way to not get addicted is to shuffle substances around, as long as you're not doing hard stuff you're fine and you'll bave your "treat" every day

weed, smokes, alcohol, ghb, mdma, amphetamines etc.

>>507842747 (OP)
Stop buying it, nigger.

>>507845291
im 34. Didn't start drinking actually until covid bullshit started. Fucked up my life, quit this year.

>>507842747 (OP)
Believe in your higher power.
Scientists claim that humans use about 10% of your brain capacity. Can you imagine if we just used a little bit of of our higher power, we could accomplish anything in life.
Believe and trust your higher power.

>>507845099
Once you have a fatty liver it really does become “never again”
I used to drink like a fish, but then I was exposed to a nasty liver toxin at work, and it aged my liver a solid 15 years of heavy drinking.

When you can’t process it like you used to it loses all of its appeal. But your brain still thinks it’s like the olden days and keeps wanting to try.
Alcoholism to the point of liver disease is no fucking joke. It can and will kill you, as it has done to many men

>>507842747 (OP)
you need a bigger desire, you have no goals

>>507842747 (OP)
>don't go to the store to buy booze
That's literally all it takes.
Don't focus on not buying alcohol, focus on not going to the store. Make it inconvenient as fuck - a recovering alco friend of mine used to get into his Pj's as soon as he got home from work, not just because that's comfy as fuck but because it made going to the store to get alcohol a pain in the ass.

>>507843756
Depends on the support group. If AA is the only thing around some people are rightly suspicious of it. Depends who is running the group but some of them can be fucking cult-like, especially if you're not the spiritual sort.

>>507842747 (OP)
Just have one less drink. You're fine.
When the night is ending and you are cracking another one out of habit. Just have a water instead of that last drink. That's all it takes. You can still be hammered and shitfaced and have all that fun, but when it's over, when it's time, just have one less than you would have had that night.
That's all it takes.

>>507844934
A druggie friend of mine in high school took ibogaine. He says it worked extremely well. I'm skeptical and think there may be a placebo effect, since the same guy gave up his heavy smoking forever after a couple of hypnotherapy sessions, which I reckon are bullshit.

Just don't drink it?

I honestly have a hard time understanding how people even drink. I like to socially drink, but I do it despite the horrid taste, and then only to a buzz. I couldn't and can't imagine what joy you're getting from drinking alone.

>>507842747 (OP)
Alcoholism is living your prime years on autopilot.

>>507842747 (OP)
Recovering alcoholic here; if you've been drinking a lot for a while then it's potentially fatal to go cold turkey, I know, was in hospital for 2 weeks having seizures then had complete psychosis with delirium tremens. Try getting a short-term benzo script from your GP but if it's been a long time then consider a proper drying-out clinic, I went after the DTs cleared up and it was a lot more productive than just 'man up faggit' which often results in one simply relapsing when the withdrawal becomes too difficult. 8 years sober now, from a crippling addiction that blighted everything good in my life.

>>507844361
This. Socialising in pubs becomes impossible because after people have a few pints they become incomprehensible and boring if you're sitting there completely sober. It's a sacrifice but a necessary one.

>>507843240
This. 3 and a half years sober and I just stopped cold turkey. You just need something to suppress the boredom for the first three weeks.

>>507842747 (OP)
Replace one drink with a cranberry and seltzer. Then another. Or, switch to scotch. A single scotch is usually enough for me

>>507842747 (OP)
>wallet
do some accounting and see how much you spend on alcohol.
>waistline
take some hard looks at your self and see how pudgy, ill and tired you are.
>wife
the meth prostitute at your favorite dive bar does not count as one.

>>507842747 (OP)
I stopped cold turkey and the thing that really keeps me from drinking is going to the gym. I am an advanced to elite level lifter and dont want to lose my gains and get body fat. I also dont want to lose my cardio gains. The issue when I start drinking is that I stop going to the gym and just get fat and lazy. The key is to find something more important to yiu than being drunk all day.

>>507844361
Very true. It makes you functional in a very real sense.

>>507842747 (OP)
>How do I stop drinking alcohol for good, /pol/? This shit is ruining my life.
Been there. What I did was figure out WHY, I was drinking alcohol. Alcohol isn't the problem, it's the solution to a problem. What is that problem? Why do you drink alcohol? Get to the whiteboard and figure it out, and figure out how to solve that problem, and you won't feel the desire to drink.

>>507842747 (OP)
Stop buying it. It doesn’t just magically apppear in your home.
Addiction is controlled not buy intake but by aquisition.

>>507842747 (OP)
>How do I stop drinking alcohol for good, /pol/? This shit is ruining my life.

Embrace the suck. If you are still drinking then you haven't hit rock bottom, so you'll probably keep drinking despite anyone's advice here. Thinkgs will get suckier, you get to a point where you know deep inside that either you stop drinking or the depression will consume you. This is a different type of depression, it hits your soul, your stomach feels hollow. That feeling of despair is so strong that it can completely override your desire to get drunk.
I've been sober for 3 years, not a drop, not a single desire. Even if I think about alcohol I get feelings of despair as soon as I do.

>>507842747 (OP)
literally just stop buying it and putting in your fat mouth nigger

>>507842747 (OP)
How bad is it? If you can safely go cold turkey do it. I only binge drank so it was easy to just stop.

>>507847042
>gave up forever
>bullshit
Can't argue with the results. And smoking is insanely difficult to give up.