Help for Stopping Drinking

Hi Everyone
Good luck and all my support to all of you out there battling with alcohol issues. You are not alone and I fear that the problem is reaching epidemic proportions as over 75% of the enquiries I recieve are about stopping drinking.

My average client is a 40 something working woman who leads a normal life, family, job, friends etc but is losing control of her drinking habits.

My top tip for all of you out there who are trying to quit is first start on a course of Vitamin B Complex , Magnesium and Chromium.

All three of these vitamins and minerals are massivley depleted by alcohol and add to the cravings. B Complex and Magnesium with help restore your nervous system and Chromium with help with stabalising your blood sugar.

All the clients that I see begin their recovery with this and it is my number one tip.

Don't forget to buy from a repuatable source that guarantees it is 100% pure, don't waste your money and your healthy buying inferior suppliments that are mostly filler.

Blesssings
Victoria

A WORD OF WARNING!!!
if you are alcohol Dependant and stop you can DIE, anyone who drinks every day or who gets side effects from stopping should seek medical supervision, alcohol (along with benzodiazapiens)isone of the fewdrugs that can kill you by stopping (far more dangerous than Heroin or crack in this respect)

It's probably confused with barbiturates addiction in which case it can be really live-threatening; and most likely for alcohol combined barbiturates
cases.
There's been lots of cases one gave up alcohol without med assistance,
but very few for opiates.

I just want to say all power to everyone who's stopped drinking and if you're thinking of stopping, trust me, life is a lot better without it.

I'm 37 and decided, as an experiment to give up drinking in 2008. It's over 3 months now and it's one of the best things I've done. I think helps to have someone to support you. A friend of mine also stopped. We both agree how worthwhile it is.

I found also that my caffeine addiction has been more difficult to stop. We're just talking white/green tea here but every single day. I've found how much it affects my personality. I get angry, anti-social, wary and quite despondent. Similar to how alcohol affected me, in fact.

Best wishes to everyone.

Treatment for alcoholism is a lifelong process that requires medical treatment, psychological services, behavior therapy, and a strong support system. If possible, treatment programs should have family participation. 😮

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Wow Superdetox - way to go digging up an old thread after nearly a year since the last post..... advertising much?

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Hi everyone,

I have really enjoyed reading your messages they have made me feel not alone.

I recently went on holiday with a girlfriend of mine and after one of our 4 nights out drinking we worked out that we had drank 1.25 bottles of wine and 2 vodka diet cokes. I just did an alcohol questionaire and it turns out that if i do this three times a week for the next 15 yrs i will be putting myself at very high risk of liver disease and or breast cancer. If i assume i drink 1 bottle of wine three times a week ( a conservative assumption) then my level of drinking is considered DANGEROUS.

Now the scary thing is most of my girlfriends drink like this and they consider themselves normal, as do i, and are far from thinking we have a problem or are threatening our lives. And i can guarantee you most of my friends, male and female, drink this much and if not more.

So why are we a generation of drinkers? Consumerism and capitalism - we all have much more disposable income than our fore-generations and are competing with others to show off our status and wealth. This involves showing off how many friends we have and more often than not showing off how much we can drink.

We are a generation of ticking health time bombs!

The one word that stood out to me above was the word "support". We all need support to give up drinking. And not just from our mums and partners but from the people we drink with. Our fellow ticking health bombs.

So in a bid to save mine and the rest of the nations livers i am going to start a T-Totaller movement. BINGO! We have all the support need - everyone we will hangout with will be a non drinker! Drink companies wont like us but hey they will thank us cause they wont be paying huge taxes to support the flood of alcohol related health diseases which will soon hit the health service.

So come one fellow health time bombs....who's in??

So come

Has worked for me for over 20 years

I have been clean and sober for over 20 years.

An alcoholic’s body and mind will go through changes especially in the first 18 months. It has been shown since 1934 that the most successful treatment has been with AA:).

AA has a 75% success rate for those wanting and willing to do what is required of them. AA has also a 5% success rate as to those who show up at the door and come in.

The success rate differs from 75% down to 5% and what separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls. Again Honesty, Open-Mindedness and Willingness separate those that succeed and those who go back to drinking.

As a member,:cool: it is suggested that you go to your doctor and fully explain that you are trying to quit drinking (a process) take his advise on medical treatment, detox if necessary and if possible to take a 28 day treatment. Take your doctor’s advise on what medicine is need. You should get good advise if you are honest with your doctor about you past drinking habits.

Treatments private and government sponsored may vary, but it is important to address you physical, mental and spiritual. Here it is not a matter of the more you pay that makes it better. You can attend a free government treatment centre and get as good or better attention then going to a private club. It is important that the patient wants to stay sober for their self and not that he/she is being pushed by parents, partners or employers.

AA Discussion Meetings allow for members to bring up ‘problems and symptoms’ that relate to stopping and continuing to not drink alcohol. What better advise can you get then going to a meeting and asking 20 - 30 people what happened to them and how they got through it.

Alcoholism is a family decease and should be treated as a family to support the Alcoholic. Check out with Al-Anon for the Family >

AA has no dues and supports it’s self by passing the hat. If you can afford $1 - $2 when the hat comes around it will be appreciated. If you cannot afford it .. come anyway as sometime in the future you maybe able to afford a dollar. Check out our site >

I wish you the best, and I know it works.

Advice please?

im 26 and struggling to control my drinking.
i dont wake wanting a drink and really only drink socially but once ive had one i find it hard to stop and inevitably end up doing stupid or angry things which i do not remember. ive lost jobs because i cant get up after a session and more recently my ex left with my daughter. i now have a new partner whom i love very much but when we both drink together we seem to clash and both are unable to say no. to meet us sober you would think we were lovely im sure but drunk wouldnt give us the time of day. im worse in that i get jealous and clingy and she tends to push me away a bit then i get angry. shes is only 22 and she may be getting it out of her system but im older and have already lost one relationship to drinking.
ive approached alcohol advice and am waiting on an appointment. in the meantime i wondered if anyone might have some advice on control or total abstinence if that may be the only option.

i like the guy at the start of this thread want to do this for my girlfriend and daughter but also for me and my sanity.

Thanks

J

ive approached alcohol advice and am waiting on an appointment. in the meantime i wondered if anyone might have some advice on control or total abstinence if that may be the only option.

There's healing for emotional energies in Su-jok,
very effective for addictions.

Hi Hon,
I work as a Drug and Alcohol worker for the Criminal Justice Team. The one thing I will say to you as a I would say to all my clients is DO NOT STOP untill you have had medical advise from a trained professional. i.e your G.P.
The first thing I would advise a client iS to replace thier drink of choice for 1 with a lesser Alcoholic vol.
Example

Client has 6 cans of 9%vol Larger each day
Swap to

5 cans 9% vol and 1 can of 5%.
After a couple of days try replacing another one for a lower %vol.
You are in control and can go at your own pace.

Hope this helps. X And remember, take each day as it comes and be honest with yourself. x

Hi Scarletmoon,

Just a quick note to say that I wouldn't hold your breath for a reply. This thread has been redundant for over 12 months and the original post was nearly three and a half years ago and the original poster hasn't been on the site for over three years.