How do people even mange to deal with this world being sober?
>>82908075>sober>>82908075>people
>>82908075Why quit? Alcohol feels so good. In fact, I'm drunk right now!
>>82908075>>82908093Fellow drunkards, it is good to see you. I'm drinking dry gin + lemonade!
>>82908093Doctor is saying it's causing my kidney problems and that if it keeps progressing I will need dialysis eventually
I was having vodka and ginger beer recently, but I don't go past 3 drinks, cause I don't find it fun. Nothing in this world is fun anymore.
>>82908075For me, the critical step in stopping drinking was stopping buying. If there's booze in the cabinet; I can't stop myself drinking it. If my cabinet is empty, I can stop myself leaving the house for it. When I am out shopping for groceries, I can stop myself buying it. Adding that extra degree of separation between wanting alcohol and drinking alcohol stops me.
I drink 2-4 beer a day, every day, for last 10 years do I count as alcoholic?
>>82908113Hopefully you never reach that point of crisis. Feeling your life slip away from you because of your poor choices is terrible. I handle sober living by jacking off, exercise, and autistic routine. It is pretty miserable sometimes, but I was miserable on the stuff anyway, it was just a little less brutal in some ways and a lot more in others.
>>82908102I'm drinking vodka, neat. >>82908113he's just trying to kill your buzz Fuck doctors, they're just out to sell your drugs or surgery.
>>82908075I'm following an NHS tapering program but it unfortunately means I have to deal with withdrawal occasionally and it makes me irrational, on edge and high tempered.
>>82908113Oddly enough, the NHS discovered that's why i'm still alive, despite with a fucked liver, my kidneys are in such good shape they pull double duty. That's why i'm still here. And for her, of course.
>>82908689How much were you drinking per week?
>>82908738A litre of 37.5 proof spirit a day. Around 30 units. On about half that now. Even after 2 years teetotal the shakes never went away, the alcohol was curing a benign tremor.
>>82908075I have been sober for well over a year now. As much as I wanna drink after those "hard days" at work. I found something else to do asides just drinking alcohol. >>82908219When I was drinking I was getting a 30 can pack of miller and I would go through that in about a week. who the knows how much of my life I shaved off from drinking that much every week for over a year.
>>82908781I'd finish a case of Miller in three or four nights and those were good nights for me; when I had hard liquor, I could drink it faster and the hangovers were much worse. Switching from liquor to beer was step one of quitting for me, before I stopped buying it when I was out.
>>82908075I just never started.When I was 13 and everybody else was doing it I was just like "yeah, but why..?" People just did because it was what you're supposed to. I see tiktok of people getting shitfaced or even hang out with drunk people. Why is that ""fun""?It's interesting because I was open to harder drugs at that time (still am) just out of curiosity. I don't take anything, but if the opportunity arises, I will be trying mushrooms or DMT.
My goal is it to only drink with my wife anymore.I dont want to quit, just to stop drinking alone.My other sins like porn, hentai, weed and drugs just vanished after meeting her, but alkohol is more difficult. My life is really stressful rn and very unsatisfying rn and that makes it hard to quit.I will try to lean more into sport and being more caring about myself.
>>82909456>just to stop drinking alone.Whats wrong with it?
>>82908075i was stuck behind some retarded drunk driver in a pickup tonight (it was obvious he was drunk because 1. it was a pickup and 2. he was pingponging between the lines like a tennis ball) and as my stoned ass was watching him do this at 30 mph i couldn't help but wonder why not just get high like me and not be a danger to society and look stupid as hell
>drinking alcoholthis thread is filled to the fucking brim with NPC retards
>>82908093>>82908102>>82908113>>82908120>>82908251>>82908639>>82909481alcoholics will die in a wethousehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF5wNsfKo84
is this the thread?>>82908093based
>>82909481Because i value my health lowkey.I dont want to quit, but to reduce.And the fun with her is much grater then just numbing myself
>>82908075Holy shit did your parents never warm you about that?
>>82909643I died in your arms tonight
>>82909839>And the fun with her is much grater then just numbing myselfIm happy you found a woman you feel that happy with, anon. This board needs some bloomer content once in a while.
the only people I've seen be able to get sober are those who are just normalfags underneath their addictionI quit all my addictions, I have nothing. I'm 32, haven't had a friend in 10 years, am likely autistic or neuro whatever, unemployed, high school dropout. I have literally no reason to be sober. I hate being alive and it's been that way since I was 12
>>82908113Switch to weed then. The effects are somewhat similar and less overall damage to body. It can make you dumber but considering you find sober life unbearable, that may be a good thing.
>>82908075I mean, if you legitimately have problems quitting and you legitimately need help, contact Alcoholics Anonymous. They're a dedicated group to help people stay sober.
>>82910181AA is a cult.
I do shrooms every few weeks to months instead, and it takes off the need to escape sobriety for quite a while each time.
>>82910260anon, you're just permatripping
>>82910101The biggest lies you get told is that being sober would fix most of your problems.Being sober only fixes one single problem, which is increasing the likelyhood of not dying from cancer by 2 or 3%.Else it doesn't change shit. I didn't drink for 5 years and it still was the worst period of my life where I failed constantly and achieved nothing.When I drank every day it was at least somewhat bareable.Now my alcohol intake is reduced to 4 4 cl glasses of Vodka per week or something like that, which is basically just one evening alone in my room, my life improved tho, but not because I now drink responsibly without ever getting drunk at one single day, but because I am also 32 like you and just stopped giving a fuck about failing. I don't achieve what I did this time? Oh well, shit sucks, whatever.Back in my 20s I would lie in embryo position and cry my eyes out because I am not born perfect.
>>82910463yeah this is pretty much my experienceI was stone cold sober from substances for 5 years in my 20s, but I was still a hardcore 4chan addict, had severe depression and anxiety and nothing helped. In fact that time was probably the worst in my life.
>>82908075The opposite of addiction is connection. I stopped drinking every night by looking for things to do in my community every night.
>>82910473Ye, I mean not drinking Alcohol is always better in the long run than drinking Alcohol and I make no delusions that my extremely decreased Alcohol intake will still harm my liver, because it does and it is scientifically proven that it does, but drinking or not drinking has close to no effect on how your overall life outside of your health will turn out, the amount of drug addict alcoholics I met who are rich managers is insane, Trump is the odd one out because he doesn't drink (which is why he is still cognitive able to do what he does I guess).
>>82910490>be around normalfagshow can you bear it?
>>82910716By playing my own games.
