Giving up alcohol, could you?

5 Jun 2006

I have to give up alcohol confused

I can only get away with the very rare glass of wine but I can no longer drink any more than that.
It has made me think about how often I do drink and how many. Its not as much as I first thought but knowing I can no longer drink is wierd.
How would you feel giving up acohol?
Could you?

5 Jun 2006

I could, yes. Wouldn't be a problem at all.

5 Jun 2006

If you have noticed on our profile.. it says we don't drink for the both of us biggrin

were both T total now :D
I have never been much of a drinker since my early teens so I can take it or leave it but its a little harder for shaz.
Our next step is us both giving up smoking but we think thats going to be the harder one to do sad

Tony

5 Jun 2006

Quote by Dawn_Mids
I have to give up alcohol
I can only get away with the very rare glass of wine but I can no longer drink any more than that.
It has made me think about how often I do drink and how many. Its not as much as I first thought but knowing I can no longer drink is wierd.
How would you feel giving up acohol?
Could you?

Sorry to hear you have to give up alcohol - but yes it's possible! I used to drink way too much when I lived in Manchester and was on the music scene - it was drinks with everything and out every night! :silly:
When I moved away from that situation I decided to give up the drink totally - I'm not the sort of person that does something in half measures (no pun intended) and I also have an addictive personality and I was worrying about my consumption.
I managed to stay absolutely - not even a sip - T total for 5 years. It was a real eye opener, I used to leave my friends thinking "did I really act like that when I was pissed?" lol

. I do drink now I'm older and wiser but never two days in a row - that's my safety net as it were.
Anyway I will try and get to the point - when I first stopped drinking I had thoughts like "how am I ever going to enjoy a night out again" and "what will I do in the evenings?" but I did have fun again and eventually I totally forgot what being drunk felt like and it became second nature and I didn't even think about alcohol from one month to the next.
I hope that wasn't too heavy and had some relevance? I'm not suggesting that you have an alcohol problem but if you ever fancy a chat just PM me.
kiss

5 Jun 2006

I don;t drink a great deal so it doesn't bother me to have a night out and drink soft drinks all night. Just don't ask me to give up the fags just yet :shock:

5 Jun 2006

Quote by Sassy-Seren
I don;t drink a great deal so it doesn't bother me to have a night out and drink soft drinks all night. Just don't ask me to give up the fags just yet :shock:

I hear ya! :thumbup:

5 Jun 2006

Quote by Kiss_Me
I hope that wasn't too heavy and had some relevance? I'm not suggesting that you have an alcohol problem but if you ever fancy a chat just PM me.

I don't have a problem with alcohol but I have a medical condition that needs treating and the drugs for that mean I can no longer drink.
I am only a social drinker anyway so I think the problem for me is being told I can't drink rather that deciding myself that I don't want to drink.
Probably the same as when some people see a sign saying 'wet paint' I feel the need to touch it and check :lol2:

5 Jun 2006

Quote by Dawn_Mids

I hope that wasn't too heavy and had some relevance? I'm not suggesting that you have an alcohol problem but if you ever fancy a chat just PM me.

I don't have a problem with alcohol but I have a medical condition that needs treating and the drugs for that mean I can no longer drink.
I am only a social drinker anyway so I think the problem for me is being told I can't drink rather that deciding myself that I don't want to drink.
Probably the same as when some people see a sign saying 'wet paint' I feel the need to touch it and check :lol2:
Sure thing honey - I think the subject is emotive for me so I just felt the need to babble once I started lol!
Anyway.. I SO know what you mean! If my gf says to me don't do that or you don't need another cigarette..... well that has just made sure that I do need it (even though I don't). Us humans seem to want what we can't have and want to do what we are not allowed to - it's fun though! biggrin

Now I've re-read my post I come accross as some old lush - I wasn't an alcoholic, I just felt I could get that way and I should take action, it may have seemed severe but to a control freak like me it was the simple anwer! :D

5 Jun 2006

I had to give up drinking due to medication for an illness too and it's a case of needs must. I got used to it and it didn't really bother me after all. It also made the nights out I did have a hell of a lot cheeper cos I could drive there and back knowing I'd be ok cos I'd not drank alcohol.
kiss

Gem. x

5 Jun 2006

I gave up by accident as it were - I go months and months without drinking wine, beer, spirits... I always hated drinking if I was going on a meet or to the club - why numb the senses you are trying to arouse?
Even in a social setting I am just as happy with a diet coke. There have been plenty of times when I was not allowed to drink, through meds and the like - but I never did miss it.

5 Jun 2006

ive been drinking far far too heavily recently redface

ops: literally ten pints a night or more :oops: :oops:
so i thought this is dumb so i now dont touch any monday to friday cool

8-) 8-)
and do you know i dont miss it at all lol

:lol: :lol: :lol:
just hope youll be ok with your condition dawn darling
all the best to you wink

:wink:

5 Jun 2006

Could I give it up? probably not no.
As you saw on Saturday Dawn, miserable me, in a corner with a bottle of pop :shock:
lasted all of oooo about 15 minutes before I altered my plans, didnt have to drive anymore and found the bar biggrin

That said, I did my first club visit sober :shock: and plenty of social meets/ dinner/ coffee/ whatever and I dont need to drink, nor do I drink at home/ mid week etc - the only time I really indulge is at munches and big socials and I like a drink because for me, its part of the atmosphere/ experience , and i actually do like getting 'happily pissed'. I tend not to act that stupid (i think lol

) or do owt I'll regret, so for me its all part and parcel of going to munches - and even though i dont drink much at other times, jesus can I pack it away when I do :shock: :lol:
When I was younger though (16 ish and in pubs underage, as ya do) , I'd think nothing of drinking 15 pints and still walk home :shock: I couldnt do that now though, I'd be dead :lol: , and as a spirits drinker now too it gets a tad expensive :cry:
I dont think it would bother me that much to give up alcohol - but to be told I have to not drink is a different story! i'm not good at being told to do stuff and sticking to it, health wise other otherwise ! Good Luck!

5 Jun 2006

Dawnie chin up girl,
at the end of the day, this is your health were talking about, which is much much more important that any alcohol.
Certainly for me, I would find it difficult indeed. Not so much from a personnel perspective, but the job that I do. It seems so often in business, alcohol comes into the equation all to often.
Of course I could abstain in these "business meetings", but more often than not, I find some individuals treat you with disdain if you wont join them in a drink. Probably just a sad reflection on society that we live in a drinking culture, certainly in this country.
Anyway, for you Dawnie, forget the drinking, ice cream is far nicer anyway!!
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

5 Jun 2006

I was tea-total... for ummmm about 13 years ? personal choice and didn't really like the taste... the pressure from others to drink was enormous... I wished that I did have a reason apart from taste to not drink as I had so many people saying .... "oh just one" "try this you will love it"
I now drink very occasionally.... ummm perhaps once a month? even less maybe? I dunno I don't really think about it. I certainly socialise much much more than I drink... and I won't drink amongst people I don't know very well/at all.
I certainly could be tea-total again.... but I have discovered that I don't get annoyed by pissed people so much if I have a drink.!!! But anyway it doesn't bother me either way... I do prefer diet coke.... (I also don't drink caffeine so diet coke makes me hyper anyway)
I dunno where I am going with this... probably just wanted you to know that you will be fine... and pretty soon you will find other ways to enjoy yourself when you go out... and you do get to feel better about the money in your pocket and being able to say... "I went out last night, had a great night and only spent inc the entrance to the club! "
have fun hunny and I hope the medication works
x x x x

5 Jun 2006

hiya dawn as for your question "how would you feel giving up alcohol ?" & "could you?"
the easy answer for me is no i couldnt confused

i was advised by my doc to stop before its to late for my liver, i have been trying & have managed to cut down a bit but would still rather flush medication if it says dont take with alcohol rather than stop redface

but thats just me :?
but saying that i am not the most strong willed kind of a person & im sure that you will find it a lot easier than i did smile

like you said though its the not being alowed to have something that makes you want it even more,it makes it feel like you are missing out on something where as the only thing you are missing out on is the hangovers, worse health & a much lighter wallet/purse :? so giving up offers so many more pro's than con's :) :)
wishing you all the very best in cutting it out & hope you are feeling better soon take care & if you need someone to get rid of all your surplus alcohol my phone number is 07********* cool

5 Jun 2006

Wow thats a hard one....
I like warwick (but to a lesser degree) have found myself drinking most nights and i have managed to curtail it somewhat maybe every other night or so as for stopping totally i doubt it its very much part of my unwinding ritual after a hard day at work.
I did start to worry seriously about it when i started taking road beers on trips with me (not a good sign)
Chris.

5 Jun 2006

Poor Dawnie sad

Thats a bit rotten for you confused

I don't drink very much so I could give it up but occassionally I'd miss a glass of wine. I wouldn't miss spirits cause I only drink them on a night out anyway dunno

As you say Dawn, its when you are told you have to give something up that it seems more difficult to do :?
Bit like when you say you are going on a diet and promptly eat twice what you usually do each day :shock: lol

Just don't ask me to give up chocolate :shock: Ever. :shock:
Fee
XX

5 Jun 2006

I drink occasinally, I smoke occasionally, if I go a day or a week without either it's not really a problem but to be told to give up completely is a different thing. We tend to want what we can't have - the more you're told you can't have it, the more you want it.
H.x

5 Jun 2006

I've never been a great drinker, partly because beer tastes horrible (come on, admit it guys, no peer pressure to pretend you like it here!) partly because I have never built up much of a tolerance for alcohol, but mostly because I just get slightly silly (oh alright, sillier if you prefer) and then fall asleep. Could I do without it? Well I once realised, as I was sipping a glass of white wine with Christmas dinner, that the last time I had any alcohol was with the same meal the year before, so I think I'm a yes!
Caffine, on the other hand, I'm wedded to for all eternity. I did go cold turkey for a long time, after realising that I had a serious problem with the quanltity I was drinking, but now I know to treat caffine with respect, I'm self-medicating nicely
...and on that note, I'm off for a cuppa coffee

5 Jun 2006

I got pregnant at university. Bad move - I can't recommend trying to do lectures with morning sickness. But I gave up drinking student levels of beer completely and suddenly. It wasn't too bad, but the best thing was going out and coming home sober. Everyone else was saying 'what happened?', 'what/who did I do?' And I could tell them ANYTHING!!!!!!!
Trouble is, now I have no tolerance at all and get squiffy (that is the only word for the effect) on one glass of wine - it makes me a cheap night out but makes it hard to share a bottle and actually take part in any fun afterwards. :sleeping:
But it is your health that is the main thing. If you need an alternative, and can stand the sugar, the rasperry J2O's are gorgeous.

5 Jun 2006

Dawn

I would have to say I would find it very difficult to give up completely as we do socialise at weekends and I enjoy having a drink then. If I was told to give up because of health reasons then I would do it like a shot however.... Smoking, now that's a completely different kettle of fish as you know hun sad

You know where I am if you need me :kiss: You know it will be worth it in the end though wink

5 Jun 2006

I don't drink nearly as much as i did.. i was a proper "tequila! drinker back in the past... but think i got shocked out of drinking a lot by having overdone it one night in russia and being taken away in a russian ambulance (you will never hear me say a bad word about the NHS after that experience)
also worked in a pub thru uni and to watch people getting absolutely wasted from the other side of the bar is an experience....
so i tend to only drink shandy's at munches.. and normally have the pee taken out of me ridgid......
in the end your health is way more important than a drink... but just think of the big wide world of non-alcolhic cocktails out there... trust me, a lot of them are gorgeous!!!!!
sean xxxxxx

5 Jun 2006

If I had to for health grounds then I s'pose I would but if it's a matter of discretion then 'no way!'
Having said that I'm moderating things during the week and having a blast on the weekends!!

5 Jun 2006

Quote by Darkfire
the only time I really indulge is at munches and big socials and I like a drink because for me, its part of the atmosphere/ experience , and i actually do like getting 'happily pissed'. I tend not to act that stupid (i think ) or do owt I'll regret, so for me its all part and parcel of going to munches - and even though i dont drink much at other times, jesus can I pack it away when I do :shock: :lol:

Darkfire I have to say I agree with you and am not too sure how I feel about having a drink free munch.
If you couldn't do it, how the hell can I :eeek: :lol2: :lol2:

5 Jun 2006

Quote by Manolishi
Dawnie chin up girl,
at the end of the day, this is your health were talking about, which is much much more important that any alcohol.

Oh don't be so bloody sensible rolleyes

Quote by Manolishi
Certainly for me, I would find it difficult indeed. Not so much from a personnel perspective, but the job that I do. It seems so often in business, alcohol comes into the equation all to often.
Of course I could abstain in these "business meetings", but more often than not, I find some individuals treat you with disdain if you wont join them in a drink. Probably just a sad reflection on society that we live in a drinking culture, certainly in this country.

I think that is a feeble excuse Manolishi, blaming it on others :roll:

Quote by Manolishi
Anyway, for you Dawnie, forget the drinking, ice cream is far nicer anyway!!

Icecream is lovely but it isn't going to make up for not being able to drink :lol2:
I don't suppose the forum is the place to explain the side effects of the tablets but I've seen my lunch rather quicker than I expected. Bloody good job it was only iceberg lettuce, cucumber and egg :eeek:

5 Jun 2006

Quote by lovejoy68
wishing you all the very best in cutting it out & hope you are feeling better soon take care & if you need someone to get rid of all your surplus alcohol my phone number is 07*********

:lol2: I think my parents have already got their eye on the drinks cupboard but if there is any left I'll let you know :thumbup:

5 Jun 2006

Quote by foxylady2209
But it is your health that is the main thing. If you need an alternative, and can stand the sugar, the rasperry J2O's are gorgeous.

I have never tried it but I will now, I can see me trying a hell of a lot more soft drinks :shock:

Quote by Shireen_Mids
You know where I am if you need me You know it will be worth it in the end though

I can only hope it will, thanks Shireen :kiss:
p.s. I do have a medical problem but nothing that can't be helped with meds so please don't anyone think you're getting rid of me that easily :lol2:

5 Jun 2006

I used to smoke 20 a day, gave up 18 months ago, piled on the weight and become a miserable twat biggrin

Booze, I like to drink socially, pint or two with a meal, not really into disco weekends. Couldn't really give thebooze up as it's nice in small quantiities. :P

5 Jun 2006

Dawn,
We like to have a drink when we're out. However, I am a counsellor who help people with drug & alcohol issues. It is so rewarding seeing people saying goodbye when they no longer need to seek help. I know you don't have a problem & need to stop due to ill health. We just want to wish you Good luck Dawn & take care kiss

5 Jun 2006

Quote by hisandhers
Dawn,
We like to have a drink when we're out. However, I am a counsellor who help people with drug & alcohol issues. It is so rewarding seeing people saying goodbye when they no longer need to seek help. I know you don't have a problem & need to stop due to ill health. We just want to wish you Good luck Dawn & take care

Thank you :rose: