They manage to survive don’t they? After a while peer pressure subsides and everyone accepts it: you just don’t drink. The answer to that is one of those rare people you know who doesn’t drink and never has, even at bars. You can’t just leave everyone who drinks behind, since that probably includes 90% of your family and friends. :) That I understand is a big hold up for many thinking about quitting.
#I quit alcohol four years ago how to
Now I just have to figure out how to be social in a world full of drug addicts. It’s a tough month or two quitting, but life goes on, and it’s not the worst thing. Drink only on the weekends? Yes, but then it’s binge drinking and the weekends are just a giant headache, great idea? Tried it all. It’s also much harder to say no to people if sometimes you drink and sometimes you don’t, and then you tell them you won’t drink with them. Once a week guilty pleasure? I can’t do that, maybe some people can, but not me.
Heroin addicts hang out together but we know what drives those relationships: not love for each other. If a drug is what brings us together (bars really are just licensed drug dens), and keeps us around, socializing, then those relationships should be reexamined. Lemon water tastes just as good as alcohol if you are willing to taste it (when was the last time?) or ultimately tell yourself it does. Imagine a heroin addict telling you life is pointless if you can’t be on heroin and your reaction. “Screw life without being able to have a beer or glass of wine”? Screw life if you can’t live without it, frankly. If it is, then why pussyfoot with alcohol, really, go directly for the vein, live six months or a year in a drug daze and call it a life. A drug is not going to help you live fabulously. You can live a fabulous six months or waste 30 years. The goal is not so much to stick around longer waiting for some miracle to happen - you can extend that by maybe 10 years at best assuming you don’t get hit by a bus - but what happens between now and your departure. Psychological effect is really what did it for me: nobody is getting off this planet alive. Congrats, you made it in life, you’re none of that? Heroin will get you fired, evicted and eventually in jail.
If legality and functionality is the meaning of life then yes, alcohol will do and heroin won’t. If you think that’s a shocking, radical statement then you should really get to the bottom of why you think it’s so shocking.Īt some point the question of what alcohol is doing to me, psychologically even more than physically, becomes a lot more important than whether it’s legal (what’s important to society), or how functional you can manage to be (what’s important to your employer and landlord). except that it’s legal and a bit less debilitating than heroin. Most importantly, I have made it over the psychological peak: alcohol is just another drug, like heroin, cocaine, tobacco, etc. I relapsed for several weeks once since quitting in a typical one-drink-won’t-kill-me type of thing, but have gone dry again and it’s holding.
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