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What's the best way to stop drinking?

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    #2
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,248 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    GP would be a first step.


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    #3
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,439 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    https://www.alcoholicsanonymous.ie


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    #4
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users Posts: 7,576 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Just don’t open your mouth


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    #5
    Sharp MZ700
    Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Sharp MZ700


    Lock yourself into a room with enough water for 2 days.


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    #6
    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    Just get into bed. Turn off all electrics and put out the fire and cigarettes. Have a sleep. Have a shower and shave first thing in the morning. Try and keep that clean feeling going.


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    #7
    pebbles21
    Registered Users Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    Sure no point in stopping now .. Sure its Xmas wait till New Years day and sure you'll be grand !!
    ðŸ˜


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    #8
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,902 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Are you off work.?

    When do you go back to reality?


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    #9
    [Deleted User]
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    Shur you might as well keep going until early January at this stage..


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    #10
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users Posts: 14,361 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Sharp MZ700 wrote: »
    Lock yourself into a room with enough water for 2 days.

    Do not do this. Do not go cold turkey after a 10 day binge.


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    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,809 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Remarkably well typed for someone on a ten day session who should be rattling and shaking like a dog taking a sh1te.

    1/10 for effort but on the off chance that any of that could be real,go to your gp and ask to be medically detoxed on Librium to reduce the chance of suffering a seizure.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Sounds like you don't think you can stop by yourself, so your first port of call is to get help doing it. Go to your GP for help, and then garner support. Tell people you're going to stop, especially the people you think will be receptive rather than try persuade you you're fine.

    Consider something like AA too. Hang onto the resolve you feel now, and good luck. It's a brave move to take control when you feel you're losing control, and I'm sure you'll be very glad you did it. Next year could be your best.


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    #13
    Still waters
    Registered Users Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    AA is for quitters


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    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    Remarkably well typed for someone on a ten day session who should be rattling and shaking like a dog taking a sh1te.

    1/10 for effort but on the off chance that any of that could be real,go to your gp and ask to be medically detoxed on Librium to reduce the chance of suffering a seizure.

    In fairness...


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    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,069 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Go to mass. If they offer you the chalice, just say you want the bread.


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    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,449 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    OP, why do you feel the need to keep drinking? Are you trying to escape from something or have you formed a habit now already?

    Try get some non-alcoholic beers. They will rehydrate you fairly well and keep the taste of beer in your mouth.


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    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,902 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »
    In fairness I'm still drunk now so no shakes until the drink has left my system. That was my point about finding it hard to stop. I've a bottle of vodka here and 16 cans, so no trembling for a couple of days.

    And my Boards account is 6 years old with nearly 3,000 posts. I've never trolled on here and plenty of my posts are well enough written. Just because I can spell doesn't mean I'm not drunk as a skunk.

    Have you no work to go to?

    How do you feel? What do you want to do?

    What is in your life day to day?


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Stopping drinking is usually a sure fire way to stop drinking.


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    #19
    LaFuton
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 784 ✭✭✭LaFuton


    if u cant pour the drink down the loo right now ur an alcoholic, switch to coffee and grab a meeting, they're on twice a day


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    #20
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,809 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »
    In fairness I'm still drunk now so no shakes until the drink has left my system. That was my point about finding it hard to stop. I've a bottle of vodka here and 16 cans, so no trembling for a couple of days.

    And my Boards account is 6 years old with nearly 3,000 posts. I've never trolled on here and plenty of my posts are well enough written. Just because I can spell doesn't mean I'm not drunk as a skunk.




    Go to your gp and ask them to detox you for your own safety.try aa meetings then and if that fails try a treatment program.
    Loads available.
    Best of luck.


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    CFlat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,787 ✭✭✭CFlat


    Jazsus lads he said he was on the beer for 10 days not 10 years. Librium? AA? GP?

    Look, assuming you're just pissed off with something and you went on a bender to forget about it which is what this sounds like to me, tomorrow morning just stay in bed all day. You need to eat but just go back to bed after you've done that. Eat well though. Stay warm in bed, electric blanket, hot water bottle whatever makes you comfortable. The following day you'll feel better and so on. I think you just need to snap out of whatever this thing is you're going through


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    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Pour your booze down the sink and go order yourself some food.


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    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    If you can still pronounce your username, you're alright.


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    Mena Mitty
    Registered Users Posts: 5,965 ✭✭✭Mena Mitty


    Are you skint yet ? Having no money is a good reason to stop the 'binge' All good things come to an end.


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    #25
    FFVII
    Registered Users Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭FFVII


    Bit of fecking will power is all anyone needs.


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    murphyebass
    Registered Users Posts: 5,553 ✭✭✭murphyebass


    eh this after hours so shut up and have another drink ya pansy!!

    Plenty of time to sober up next year.... maybe.


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    LaFuton
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 784 ✭✭✭LaFuton


    actually, u should just relax and enjoy yourself, feck it dude, just be safe, u wont b at this ****e forever so enjoy it, you'll look back fondly one day


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    #28
    Blondie919
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,454 ✭✭✭Blondie919


    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »
    No. I've enough to continue the binge for 6 months at least. I won't, but money isn't the issue.

    Have you any friends or people close to you that you can talk to? Talking face to face with someone will help, as opposed to us online folk. We can offer advice but you can still hide from us. Talk to someone man. it will help.


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    #29
    [Deleted User]
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    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »
    I just can't snap out of the rut. I'm not generally a person who gets down in the dumps. But I really can't seem to stop the binge. Any advice appreciated. :)

    A straight 10 days of heavy drinking would be a good reason to take the advice many have already given of going straight to your GP. Maybe it is an over reaction but better safe than sorry right? Tell him exactly how much you have had - no lying or underestimating it - and just get his advice on a detox plan if he offers any.

    After that the idea of pouring all you have away is a good one. If you can not bring yourself to do it - that should be informative to you.

    As for stopping drinking I would fling out advice to novel length on that and bore you stupid but the two things I always say to people to start with are:

    1) People will often recommend AA. I think 2 people already have on this thread. Although AA works for some people but it has a very very bad record over all. So please be aware there are _many_ organisations like AA and some very unlike AA. So if AA does not work for you or seem useful to you - do not throw your hands up entirely at the idea of going to such groups. Try others. Several others. If you got a bad tailored suit you would not - I guess - simply give up on wearing all clothes ever. Think of it like that. Try different suit makers and even try different outfits.

    2) Nature abhors a vacuum according to the old saying. Many people make the mistake of trying to delete alcohol from their lives and nothing else. This leaves a hole in their life. Something has to fill that hole. And more often than not in my experience - it is filled by alcohol coming back. If you want to take alcohol out of your life partially or completely then you need to replace it with something. Something you enjoy and that engages you. Preferably more than one thing with at least one of them being in the home and one of them being out of it. And at least one of them being with a group of people who will support you too if possible.


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    tdf7187
    Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    LaFuton wrote: »
    if u cant pour the drink down the loo right now ur an alcoholic, switch to coffee and grab a meeting, they're on twice a day

    Molesworth Hall has five a day. The Crypt in Monkstown has four.


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    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,896 ✭✭✭sabat


    Get a bag of weed.


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