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Giving up the Booze

  • 17-12-2007 01:30PM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,092 ✭✭✭


    Hello all,
    I am planning to give up the booze for the foreseable future after the New Year. I just want to get back into the GYM, football habit etc. I've given it up before for 6 weeks and it was hell going out! So can any1 pass on some useful information on how to get through it.

    Cheers!


    PS ~ I know there is a ''giving up smoking thread', I didnt see one for drink.


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  • #2
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1015

    No go change your user name to 'Billy no mates'..


  • #3
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,788 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    The pub is the biggest hurdle simply because that's where everyone want to go and meet up and none of them would consider trying something else.

    The people you meet in gyms and such may not exactly be the most fun people in the world. I'm not saying there boring or anything but people that like running on the spot for half and hour or repeating the same movement over and over again... Well ya there boring.

    I dont' know how you'd do it, just don't bother. Who wants to be old anyway.


  • #4
    Ciaran500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    Just don't drink? :confused:

    I do it some times when I go out, just say it to your friends so you don't end up with a drink infront of you if there is a round going.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,092 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ScumLord wrote: »
    The pub is the biggest hurdle simply because that's where everyone want to go and meet up and none of them would consider trying something else.

    The people you meet in gyms and such may not exactly be the most fun people in the world. I'm not saying there boring or anything but people that like running on the spot for half and hour or repeating the same movement over and over again... Well ya there boring.

    I dont' know how you'd do it, just don't bother. Who wants to be old anyway.


    Well this has been tried before and it did not work! I am not saying I will be giving it up for good as I just couldn't see it happenin. What spurred this on is the constant torture of Monday mornings. When 530 hits on Friday I head on the piss until Sunday afternoon reguraly and my body feels bollixed after it ! Im just sick of it at this stage. Then theres the midweek football, odd time a mate's bday during the week and so on so fourth. Its just a continious viscious circle & I've been doing it for too long.


  • #6
    Rob_l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭Rob_l


    This thread makes me want a drink


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  • #7
    Cathmandooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,324 ✭✭✭✭Cathmandooo


    KaG1888 wrote: »
    Hello all,
    I am planning to give up the booze for the foreseable future after the New Year. I just want to get back into the GYM, football habit etc. I've given it up before for 6 weeks and it was hell going out! So can any1 pass on some useful information on how to get through it.

    Cheers!


    PS ~ I know there is a ''giving up smoking thread', I didnt see one for drink.

    If you have a car then drive when you're going out - it'll help you avoid the whole 'ah go on have a drink' issue.

    I dont envy you. I'd never be able to do it :D *


    *If I HAD to I would, I wouldn't like to though


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,092 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Cathooo wrote: »
    If you have a car then drive when you're going out - it'll help you avoid the whole 'ah go on have a drink' issue.

    I dont envy you. I'd never be able to do it :D *


    *If I HAD to I would, I wouldn't like to though

    Helpful ^, but would it not be a pain bringing the mates home wasted?

    Also, I forget to mention the money factor..........big chunk of the ol wage pack goes on the piss.


  • #9
    Naked Lepper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭Naked Lepper


    lol this thread goes to show that we are just a nation of junkies really hehe

    cant get enuff of the alcohol!


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 596 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ScumLord wrote: »
    The people you meet in gyms and such may not exactly be the most fun people in the world. I'm not saying there boring or anything but people that like running on the spot for half and hour or repeating the same movement over and over again... Well ya there boring.

    People lifting glass to mouth, back to table and back to mouth again repeatedly, talking the same ****e .... that can be just as boring. :D

    OP, find yourself an interest, preferably sporting, that doesn't involve going on the piss constantly.


  • #11
    Timothy Bryce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 708 ✭✭✭Timothy Bryce


    I'm completely off the booze too - was out on Saturday night and had the car with me. All my mates kept saying "Aw...sh*t one dude you're missing out" etc.

    It's as though everyone was implying I wouldn't have a good time unless I was utterly tanked. The fact is, I had good night with plenty of good banter and was feeling fresh-ish yesterday morning.

    It's true that people in this country really need to take a long hard look at their relationship with alcohol.

    Fair play to you mate for trying to give it up - I'm off it for a month and feel fantastic....bringing your car out with you is a great excuse if your friends are trying to cajole you into boozing


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  • #12
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,788 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    KaG1888 wrote: »
    Well this has been tried before and it did not work! I am not saying I will be giving it up for good as I just couldn't see it happenin. What spurred this on is the constant torture of Monday mornings. When 530 hits on Friday I head on the piss until Sunday afternoon reguraly and my body feels bollixed after it ! Im just sick of it at this stage. Then theres the midweek football, odd time a mate's bday during the week and so on so fourth. Its just a continious viscious circle & I've been doing it for too long.
    The hangovers are a killer alright. I never used to get hangover when I was in my drinkin prime. Now though I'm sick as a dead dog for up to 3 days after drinking any amount of alcohol. I only went out on Saturday I had a few bottles of some fine Polish beers before heading to the pub and a few jamesons in the pub, only had half of one can in the nightclub and left I'm still sick now.

    I'd say you'd have to move to another country where being drunk as an ass every weekend isn't the norm.


  • #13
    SUNGOD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,411 ✭✭✭SUNGOD


    Mairt wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1015

    No go change your user name to 'Billy no mates'..

    or even worse ,change it to "mairt"


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,092 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ScumLord wrote: »

    I'd say you'd have to move to another country where being drunk as an ass every weekend isn't the norm.


    LOL hopefully not. I am going to have a go at this though. I have a mad time planned for the holidays including New Years in Killarney. After that the ''fasting'' begins ;):eek:


  • #15
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    SUNGOD wrote: »
    or even worse ,change it to "mairt"

    Wouldn't be very sMairt, its taken!.


  • #16
    Cathmandooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,324 ✭✭✭✭Cathmandooo


    KaG1888 wrote: »
    Helpful ^, but would it not be a pain bringing the mates home wasted?


    You wouldnt have to always bring them home. Give it a try anyway and see how it goes! Just dont let them start bringing their chipper food into the car, gets messy then :D


  • #17
    juuge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 792 ✭✭✭juuge


    Gave up the gargle once for nine months. It was difficult at first but I soon got used to drinking soft drinks. The craic was just as good and the sex was even better. Sorry I went back on it. I'll do it again in January.


  • #18
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,742 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    I will go off it as my New Years Reso....

    For like probably only 2 weeks...
    :(


  • #19
    qz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭qz


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    I will go off it as my New Years Reso....

    For like probably only 2 weeks...
    :(

    That's my thinking too. I've been on it too much (starting college etc) and I'd love a break. Plus I had like a week of being mad late for work and I'd seriously not like to lose my job!
    But I know it's going to be once college starts again and the nights out start happening again. Oh give me strength someone :(


  • #20
    Zzippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    OP, give yourself a target to aim for. You'll be saving money by not drinking, so have a target, like a nice holiday, or a really good tv, whatever. Its something to aim for - every time you don't take a drink you can tell yourself youre going to have the best holiday ever with the money - and its a great reward at the end of it.


  • #21
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Just stop drinking! I don't know why some people are suggesting that you don't go to pubs. They do sell drinks other than alcoholic ones.

    I've never been much of a drinker though (I have had alcohol 3 times thi year...in small amounts), and I've always had a good time, so I probably can't understand that it might be difficult for you.

    Good luck.


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  • #22
    Sonnenblumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    KaG1888 wrote: »
    Hello all,
    I am planning to give up the booze for the foreseable future after the New Year. I just want to get back into the GYM, football habit etc. I've given it up before for 6 weeks and it was hell going out! So can any1 pass on some useful information on how to get through it.

    Cheers!


    PS ~ I know there is a ''giving up smoking thread', I didnt see one for drink.

    Giving up booze in Ireland, must be like training for the Witness Protection Programme. Yeah Get a Life Yeah, but keeping it will be hard!:eek:


  • #23
    MySelf56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭MySelf56


    If you give up booze I was wondering is it not some kind of illegal here, can you still keep your Irish Passport.. :D:D:D ok I should stop my sarcasm. :D:D:D

    I agree with GalwayGuy99, you can have absolutely get great holiday with the saving. Due to a small medical complication I have to stay out and I saved enough money for two holidays one in Central Europe and Eastren Europe two years back.

    Wish you all the best I know few of friends given up and enjoying a great life. Never mind bollocks about Pubs are fun and craic. It’s expensive and load of BS excuse to get drunk. Stick with your guns stay sober… :)


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,092 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    MySelf56 wrote: »
    If you give up booze I was wondering is it not some kind of illegal here, can you still keep your Irish Passport.. :D:D:D ok I should stop my sarcasm. :D:D:D

    I agree with GalwayGuy99, you can have absolutely get great holiday with the saving. Due to a small medical complication I have to stay out and I saved enough money for two holidays one in Central Europe and Eastren Europe two years back.

    Wish you all the best I know few of friends given up and enjoying a great life. Never mind bollocks about Pubs are fun and craic. It’s expensive and load of BS excuse to get drunk. Stick with your guns stay sober… :)


    I am going to give it a go anyway. I am just sick of feeling wrecked on a Monday and being unfit. I'll probably last a month but I'll give it a shot.


  • #25
    Ciaran500
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    If you think you can't go with out drink why not just drink in moderation? :confused:


  • #26
    EL_Loco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭EL_Loco


    you need to give it longer than a month. I wasn't even that heavy a drinker but when I stopped it took me a fair while to adjust to being out and about with everyone else drunk around me.

    you'll hear the same stuff, maybe 4-5 times in a night, drunk people will repeat themselves, it gets annoying if you just sit there. I think most people's problem is they feel they can't chat to people, or chat people up or have fun without a drink or 2. Which is nonsense.

    but as I said, you need to give it more than a month, because at that stage you'll still be at the stage where you're thinking "jaysus, this is awful".

    Also, allow yourself to have a drink or 2 every now and again, and not think "you're back on the drink" because of it.

    the suggestion to save and buy something is good, you can say "that's my beer money" as you point to your big TV, or nice tan ;)

    and best of luck.


  • #27
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,092 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ok,
    First weekend coming up for this. The gauntlet has been raised too. I am going for 6 months..... I drunkingly bet €50 Euro with practically all my mates out on New Years eve that I'd do it & not drink until the 1st of July. WHAT A MESS!


  • #28
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    KaG1888 wrote: »
    Ok,
    First weekend coming up for this. The gauntlet has been raised too. I am going for 6 months..... I drunkingly bet €50 Euro with practically all my mates out on New Years eve that I'd do it & not drink until the 1st of July. WHAT A MESS!

    Man, 6 months? You got yourself in a bind there. Having said that if it is something you really want to do then best of luck with it and I hope you manage to stick to it.

    I really should be thinking along the same lines as you myself. I have been drinking like a fish all bloody December and my body is f**ked now. I don't want to give up drinking but I would sure love to give up the abuse of it. When you talk about the Monday morning torture I knoe exactly what you mean. Thing is, it wouldn't happen if I went out earlier on a Sunday evening, had 2/3 pints and then came home earlier. What I do is go out and have a few then get the taste and then hammer it until last orders and drunkenly convince myself that I will be fine in the morning. So for me, this year is not going to be about giving up booze, but it IS going to be about treating booze with respect and moderation and making sure I have plenty of drink free days.

    Best of luck anyway mate.


  • #29
    EL_Loco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭EL_Loco


    good luck.

    try not to sit there with a division in your head that you're sober and everyone else around you is drunk. Then you'll just be marking time until it's time to leave, and you won't enjoy yourself, and you'll blame it on being sober.

    Get involved and chat away, I find almost a "collective" drunkiness happens, where even though I'm sober I'm just that bit less worried about what i say or how I act, after all everyone around me has a few on them, they're not going to be overly worried. ;)

    but again, not easy to make the change, but just want to stress, give it a chance.


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,092 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jigsaw wrote: »
    Man, 6 months? You got yourself in a bind there. Having said that if it is something you really want to do then best of luck with it and I hope you manage to stick to it.

    I really should be thinking along the same lines as you myself. I have been drinking like a fish all bloody December and my body is f**ked now. I don't want to give up drinking but I would sure love to give up the abuse of it. When you talk about the Monday morning torture I knoe exactly what you mean. Thing is, it wouldn't happen if I went out earlier on a Sunday evening, had 2/3 pints and then came home earlier. What I do is go out and have a few then get the taste and then hammer it until last orders and drunkenly convince myself that I will be fine in the morning. So for me, this year is not going to be about giving up booze, but it IS going to be about treating booze with respect and moderation and making sure I have plenty of drink free days.

    Best of luck anyway mate.

    Yeah that Sunday thing is exactly what I'd do lol. Go for a curer and ending up watching a match & getting fcuking gee eyed. Anyway, I want to do it to get fit again & I want to get back playing football. First few weekends should be torture but here it goes!


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  • #31
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    KaG1888 wrote: »
    Yeah that Sunday thing is exactly what I'd do lol. Go for a curer and ending up watching a match & getting fcuking gee eyed. Anyway, I want to do it to get fit again & I want to get back playing football. First few weekends should be torture but here it goes!

    It'll be worth it man. Seriously, if you can manage the 6 months, you'll feel great, and after the 6 months you'll probably drink less anyway. (Or else you'll turn into an alcoholic!)

    Best of luck.


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