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Cancer or not, I really should stop drinking.
by chewyland 9y ago
Cancer or not, I really should stop drinking.
- whistlerbrk 9y agoGood luck, start exercising if you are not.
- agumonkey 9y agoAlso never "stop", slow down, allow for pauses, allow for minute amounts, as long as you keep decreasing.
- fergonco 9y agoIn the case of an alcohol addiction, decrease of consumption is almost a guarantee to relapse.
- hyperpape 9y agoWhile zero consumption is probably the best, the belief that it's all or nothing seems to be associated with severity of relapse/bingeing after a failure of self-control http://persweb.wabash.edu/facstaff/hortonr/articles%20for%20class/baumeister%20and%20heatherton.pdf http://persweb.wabash.edu/facstaff/hortonr/articles%20for%20...
- pg314 9y agoI found it much easier to completely eliminate alcohol than to reduce my consumption. You no longer have to think about it, and you're no longer tempted by 'just one more drink' (which becomes even more tempting after a couple of drinks).
- BartSaM 9y agoEveryone is different. I also prefer just stop, but not everyone has will power to do so.
- agumonkey 9y agoI didn't mean to reduce as a goal, but to not hurt yourself emotionally if you ever skip a beat as long as its tiny. If you finally drink once after a month of being sober, you're at 1 per month vs 30 per month, that's not zero but it's good. So next month you try to beat that, or stay at one drink per month. And in three monthes try to get a zero.
- projektfu 9y agoThe Easy Way to Stop Drinking, by Allen Carr
- KludgyPerl 9y agoThis Naked Mind, by Annie Grace
- sn9 9y agoYou should check out this 2015 article from The Atlantic for a discussion about what we know about evidence-based addiction interventions: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous/386255/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-irr...