Giving Up Alcohol: Total Abstinence

Its Behind You!

I've decided that I'm going to stay off the aul drink for the rest of the year. I hope I make it.

Will you join with me in total abstinence?

Death and Taxes

Its Behind You! wrote: »

I've decided that I'm going to stay off the aul drink for the rest of the year. I hope I make it.

Will you join with me in total abstinence?

What, a whole two hours? feck that!:D

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Yes, just let me open the good book............glug, glug, glug!

Its Behind You!

WileyCoyote wrote: »

What, a whole two hours? feck that!:D

You can do it if you try, but you must want to do it for yourself..

galwayrush

Its Behind You! wrote: »

I've decided that I'm going to stay off the aul drink for the rest of the year. I hope I make it.

Will you join with me in total abstinence?

I have a full bottle of wine to drink yet, ( Amarone), then i will gladly join you to stay off the evil stuff until next year.

Fox_In_Socks

Its Behind You! wrote: »

I've decided that I'm going to stay off the aul drink for the rest of the year. I hope I make it.

Will you join with me in total abstinence?

I've just drank my last beer and too lazy to walk into the city to get more. So yes, I shall be abstinately drunk for the next two hours until it passes out of my system.

Its Behind You!

galwayrush wrote: »

I have a full bottle of wine to drink yet, ( Amarone), then i will gladly join you to stay off the evil stuff until next year.

Ah, you see the lost sheep hath been found...

kjl

11 years sober now

Its Behind You!

kjl wrote: »

11 years sober now

WTF! Good call!

Israel_Dagg

Total Absence?

Its Behind You!

Israel_Dagg wrote: »

Total Absence?

Total Absinthe = Total Abscess :eek:

sunflower27

All the best with it

I made giving up alcohol my new year's resolution last year and will be celebrating my first year sober in a matter of hours.

I feel great for it - managed to kick the smokes 6 months ago as well, which I have wanted to do for years.


Edit - I am also back at university studying counselling, which is what I have always wanted to do! Money well spent. It's been a great first sober year

Its Behind You!

Just less then 1 hour and 50 minutes until I can have my next wee drink.:rolleyes:

Pottler

Its Behind You! wrote: »

I've decided that I'm going to stay off the aul drink for the rest of the year. I hope I make it.

Will you join with me in total abstinence?

No. I'll be over here, having a beer. I tried the whole "no drinking" thing, and discovered that it was deathly dull, everyone else was drinking and sounded stupid(which they usually didn't), I was waay too chirpy and annoying in the morning and I missed it. That's one day I won't forget in a hurry. I might give up the fags for good though, that's somthing I do every year at new years.

Ghandee

I'm going to abstain for a while in 2013.

I've the following in the fridge/press that would seriously bug me lying around so am gonna attempt to 'dispose' of it tonight.

1 x 500ml bottle of tyskie (4 already drank)
6 x 350ml bottles of Coopers sparking ale.
Half a bottle of red stag Jim Beam

There are also numerous other bottles of red/white wine, 2 x bottles of champagne and numerous spirits in the press, but the bottles in bold are on my 'to do list' tonight.

Bottoms up all. And a happy new year to one and all.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i didn't drink until i was 18 and then i stopped drinking for a couple of years when i was in my early 20's

unless you're addicted it's not that big a deal and it's not really anything special. best thing to do is just drink in moderation, if you spend all your time focusing on not drinking you're still making alcohol a huge part of your life.. just not getting any of the benefit you'd get from being plastered.

delw

Its Behind You! wrote: »

I've decided that I'm going to stay off the aul drink for the rest of the year. I hope I make it.

Will you join with me in total abstinence?

I wont be joining you but wish you all the best

Its Behind You!

Ghandee wrote: »

I'm going to abstain for a while in 2013.

I've the following in the fridge/press that would seriously bug me lying around so am gonna attempt to 'dispose' of it tonight.

1 x 500ml bottle of tyskie (4 already drank)
6 x 350ml bottles of Coopers sparking ale.
Half a bottle of red stag Jim Beam

There are also numerous other bottles of red/white wine, 2 x bottles of champagne and numerous spirits in the press, but the bottles in bold are on my 'to do list' tonight.

Bottoms up all. And a happy new year to one and all.

holy sh1t! So you are expecting plenty guests?

Ghandee

Its Behind You! wrote: »

holy sh1t! So you are expecting plenty guests?

No just myself....

I prob won't get through all of it, (prob make a stab at the Jim beam after the beer) but will make a dam good attempt.

Miss Lockhart

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

if you spend all your time focusing on not drinking you're still making alcohol a huge part of your life.. just not getting any of the benefit you'd get from being plastered.

Unless you have a problem, then why would you be focused on not drinking? Just don't drink - no focus required.

I haven't drank since 2006. Just not bothered with it. Doesn't cause me any hassle.

gurramok

If too much drinking is causing a problem(despite the health issues), you need to cut back. Only you can do that, needs will power and understanding what you are doing is harming you socially and internally. If you decide to stop drinking in 2013 without a single drop, that takes one hell of a huge courage, the vast majority will fail to abide by that, you have to realise and don't feel that you are a failure if you end up having a couple of pints every 7 days. My own opinion is just cut back, what helps is just finding another activity that will take your mind away from the bottle. Try it.:)

Wattle

Well one was too many and a thousand was never enough so this is my ninth Xmas sober. Having said that I'm not going to begrudge those who want to get sloshed. I did it for long enough myself.

Saganist

Wattle wrote: »

Well one was too many and a thousand was never enough so this is my ninth Xmas sober. Having said that I'm not going to begrudge those who want to get sloshed. I did it for long enough myself.

Really hope I can emulate that..

gurramok

Saganist wrote: »

Really hope I can emulate that..

To add, one has to find the emotion that keeps one drinking as an escape mechanism. Conquer that, deal with it, move on and one would find their desire to drink not a daily occurrence.

donegal_road

count me in.

I was at the bottle bank the last day and the guy next to me remarked that I must have had a party in the house,....which I hadn't, but was to ashamed to say it!

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donegal_road wrote: »

count me in.

I was at the bottle bank the last day and the guy next to me remarked that I must have had a party in the house,....which I hadn't, but was to ashamed to say it!

Its much worse when you give a local church regular a lift with a boot and back seats full of stinking not totally empty bottles.

I thought she was gonna ask to get out of the car with the smell of me "from the night before"...i only copped on a while after...

Wattle

Yeah the bottle bank. I remember that one. These days its only empty coffee jars and bottles of fizzy drinks.

Odysseus

Ah, It was a case of "half measures of ale where nothing":) I went off it once to see how difficult it was for the lads I work with. It was 11 years later before I had another one.

Only drink a few times a year now.

Wattle wrote: »

Well one was too many and a thousand was never enough so this is my ninth Xmas sober. Having said that I'm not going to begrudge those who want to get sloshed. I did it for long enough myself.

gurramok

11 years Odysseus, how did you manage that?! Do you always order non-alcoholic beverages on a night out?

Wattle

Odysseus wrote: »

Ah, It was a case of "half measures of ale where nothing":) I went off it once to see how difficult it was for the lads I work with. It was 11 years later before I had another one.

Only drink a few times a year now.

It's good that you've got it under control. Wouldn't risk it myself. That demon is still in there waiting to be uncorked.

kfallon

Don't give it up, just cut back. Often you try to give it up, works for about 6 weeks then you go back on it and go crazy for about 3 weeks and you are back to square one