STOPPING DRINKING

Ready to Stop Drinking Alcohol?

If you are planning to get the goal in stopping drinking, you must decide whether you want to stop drinking alcohol forever, go for abstinence or just control the pattern of your drinking habit. You are the only one who can decide to stop drinking or not. Only you can make plans that you can use prior in beating alcoholism. It is your mind and self that can really choose if you want to give up alcohol or just taper off alcohol consumption.

If you want to cut down your alcohol intake, then it is better to set a specific date or time. You can stop drinking alcohol gradually by setting a specific time for drinking. This will allow you to taper off the consumption of alcohol and finally stop drinking later on. The dependency to alcohol doesn’t happen overnight and alcoholic’s alcohol addiction is not suddenly acquired until it becomes a habit. So it is a fact that alcohol addiction penetrates the system of your body in a long period of drinking and this reason makes alcoholism hard to overcome. It is better to deal with the addiction to alcohol in a gradual manner.

Cutting down drinking of alcohol will not be advisable to individuals who cannot control his drinking. If a person cannot stop at one or two drinks at one time, he may go for abstinence. Stop drinking and quit from alcohol immediately after you have realized that there is a need to stop it. If you just cut down drinking, you will always feel the urge of drinking excessively. You cannot fully stop drinking in this situation because you cannot control your situation. You will find your self always drunk and this will not help to give up alcohol. It will only worsen the situation by giving your self an opportunity to be hook to the addiction everytime you are consuming alcohol.

Once an alcoholic plans to stop drinking, he should always keep in mind that it is natural to have a relapse. It is a natural way for an alcoholic to find obstacles on his way to recovery. There is no such thing as “smooth recovery”. You will always hit upon some trials and challenges if you really want to stop drinking alcohol.

There are plenty if difficulties even if you are just seeking for easy ways to stop drinking. The internet has a large variety of blogs and sites that deals with alcohol addiction. There are plenty of ebooks found in the internet that you can read if you are planning to stop drinking. There are even hundreds of authors writing about how to stop drinking with free books that claim they have the answers on beating alcoholism. But I must say and this is a fact that there are few who really provides tips and techniques to help stop drinking.

When my stopping drinking journey begins, there are lots of questions I have in my mind. I ask myself what will make me stop drinking. What are the easy ways to stop drinking? Whom will I ask if I experience alcohol withdrawal symptoms? How can I avoid alcohol cravings without the help of synthetic drugs?

I just search for answers on the internet. But it is not easy to find answer especially if you don’t have idea on what or which the proper ways to stop drinking are.

But it serves me as challenge to seek for steps that I can use prior to stopping drinking. I finally proved that it is possible to give up alcohol and make my self onto success. It is possible to stop drinking and beat alcoholism on your own.