Could you go a month without alchohol?

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No, because I like alcohol. I'm 42 and it's been the first time ever recently where I didn't have one drink for a week. What I do know is I don't go out and get leathered every week with the lads. I have a blow out now and again but have the odd beer or glass of wine for example if I feel like it. It's just the hangovers I can't deal with now they can creep into mondays!
 
Easily, I’ve gone many months without and over many years. I enjoy a drink socially from time to time but never something I crave
 
I’ve not been in the piss since the end of last season.

I’ve had the odd bottle of red wine or even a few Crabbies watching the World Cup, but does that count?
 
No. I can get by with not having anything on a school night nowadays, but would hate to have a sustained period of abstinence. What do these people who say they can and do go without for weeks on end actually do, say, on a Saturday night? The thought of sitting at home watching Saturday Night Takeaway/X Factor drinking tea or coffee before toddling off to bed sends shivers down my spine. Medical and financial reasons excepted, there is no reason whatsoever to live a life of, what would be to me, abject misery. Life is way too short and life is for living. Having a few pints with your mates (and coupling this with going to the match) is one of life's greatest pleasures. Beer is great. Wine is great. Cocktails are great.
 
I've pretty much been continuously pissed since the World Cup. Got absolutely leathered on Friday after work in a local bar that does Belgian beers. Was on 10% stuff and I haven't been as sick as I was on Saturday morning in many a year. This might have been a turning point I hope, because lately i've been enjoying it a little too often.
 
Had a drink yesterday for the first time in a couple of months, out all day for the match, felt like shit all day a realised that i actually don't enjoy it anymore, may just have the odd little tipple but not doing any all dayers anymore.

Yes i know, fucking lightweight.
 
greasedupdeafguy said:
easy

weed > alcohol
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I'd be interested to know what kind of numbers would shift over to weed as their recreational escape of choice if it were ever legalised. Can't say I ever have much of a long term taste for either but if I were forced to choose I'd take a quite night in stoned over a night out on the piss any day.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Apart from today (when I’ve got a wedding to attend) I’m having a dry August. Looked at the rest of the year and figured I’d struggle to manage it in any other month. Been tempted a couple of times, but I’ve lost half a stone already and I’m feeling good for it. The big test will be Wolves away. Might fall off the wagon spectacularly that day tbf.
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In the interests of full disclosure, (sort of) made it to Friday 24th before faltering after work. I’d already made my mind up to drink before and after the Wolves game (the next day). In for a penny....

Drank all day yesterday and tonight. Got some work done this afternoon tbf. I’ll try and see the rest of this working week out, dry, including an evening in London, which is always seems to have something missing without a drink. I’m also out Friday and Saturday, next weekend. Not drinking for either isn’t really an option.

Giving up drinking would really get in the way of my social life, but I might try another fortnight off before I go away, mid-October. Need to try and counter-balance the week or so I’ve lost from this period of abstinence.
 
I’ve got three nights away in two weekends time where I’m meeting old friends. I expect to be sensible up until then and have a damn good time abroad.
 
BlueMoon Risin' said:
Good programme on BBC2 now on Adrian Chiles drinking habbits. For those who kid themselves on how much they drink in a week,check this programme out on BBC iPlayer.
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It was a good programme and quite thought provoking. The question between total abstinence and cutting down to the recommended weekly level (14 units!!) was interesting. I really can't envisage ever getting to 14 - think it would be easier just to stop completely.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
It was a good programme and quite thought provoking. The question between total abstinence and cutting down to the recommended weekly level (14 units!!) was interesting. I really can't envisage ever getting to 14 - think it would be easier just to stop completely.
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The problem with reducing rather than eliminating alcohol is that it affects the brain.

We may decide to have just 2 pints when alcohol free but the first pint attacks that resolve, the second one destroys the resolve and the inevitable third pint tells you all you need to know about the effects of alcohol.

Perhaps 0,0 beers can help by allowing social contact, allowing a very similar taste, but without the erosion of responsibility alcohol brings ?
 
SilverFox2 said:
The problem with reducing rather than eliminating alcohol is that it affects the brain.

We may decide to have just 2 pints when alcohol free but the first pint attacks that resolve, the second one destroys the resolve and the inevitable third pint tells you all you need to know about the effects of alcohol.

Perhaps 0,0 beers can help by allowing social contact, allowing a very similar taste, but without the erosion of responsibility alcohol brings ?
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I suspect you are correct. During the periods I have wanted to cut back I found it easier just to stop than say have a couple of glasses on wine on a Friday evening. That was just frustrating and I felt afterwards totally pointless.
 
I was drinking at least half a bottle of wine a night last year and more at a weekend. It just kind of crept up on me without me realising. By Christmas I figured I probably needed to do something about it, so I signed up for dry January. It was tough, I replaced booze with exercise and made it through January. The evening of 1st Feb, I had a large glass of red that I was looking forward too, but it jus put tasted rank. I didn't finish it and I just decided to carry on not drinking. It s been 8 months now, Ive lost 1.5 stones in weight, mental wellbeing has improved and at 45, the fitest I've ever been in my life. I have the odd drink every now on then, but I don't really miss it.

The Adrian Child's program was interesting and reaffirmed my decision, the choice between 0 or 14 units spreads over the week is easy for me. I don't see much benefit in drinking 14 units over that Period, so zero it is.
 
Hesperus said:
I was drinking at least half a bottle of wine a night last year and more at a weekend. It just kind of crept up on me without me realising. By Christmas I figured I probably needed to do something about it, so I signed up for dry January. It was tough, I replaced booze with exercise and made it through January. The evening of 1st Feb, I had a large glass of red that I was looking forward too, but it jus put tasted rank. I didn't finish it and I just decided to carry on not drinking. It s been 8 months now, Ive lost 1.5 stones in weight, mental wellbeing has improved and at 45, the fitest I've ever been in my life. I have the odd drink every now on then, but I don't really miss it.

The Adrian Child's program was interesting and reaffirmed my decision, the choice between 0 or 14 units spreads over the week is easy for me. I don't see much benefit in drinking 14 units over that Period, so zero it is.
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Well done
Do you not find it tough at a social event when others are drinking?
Personally I like a nice glass of wine with steak, or good cheese and a drink at the match, other than that I can leave it.
 
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