Teetotalism

[thom]

Has anyone else managed this at all?

I have been "off the pop" since the start of January and I feel so much better for it. However, that's not to say that I don't get hugely tempted still.

How do people manage the cravings and also the social pressures? (A lot of my friends have reacted as if I said "I've decided to become a murderer").

Help!

Thing is, without the assistance of drink, how is it possible to get together with someone ? Tea drinking & arranged marriage ? I shall forever be thankful for bottles of Jura and Auchentoshan and the dutch courage they imbued.

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Thing is, without the assistance of drink, how is it possible to get together with someone ? Tea drinking & arranged marriage ? I shall forever be thankful for bottles of Jura and Auchentoshan and the dutch courage they imbued.

I have never had any problems in this respect but even if I did, I'm almost an old married lady now, so not an issue.

 

[grumpyoldgit]

Thing is, without the assistance of drink, how is it possible to get together with someone ? Tea drinking & arranged marriage ? I shall forever be thankful for bottles of Jura and Auchentoshan and the dutch courage they imbued.

Another very good reason to stay off the sauce

I find it much harder staying off the fags,than not drinking,& I was very heavily into both.

 

[nickyboy]

Enjoy beer, red wine, whiskey, port. Only Fri-Sat-Sun

January is always off the booze. Only this year I had to go to China for 10 days. There the formula is drink = make friends.....make friends = make business. So you are somewhat obligated if you want the trip to be successful. Their spirit starts at 38% and goes up to about 62%. It tastes bloody awful but is an amazing social lubricant in what is a pretty emotionally repressed society. Everyone loves everyone after enough glasses of 62%

So, having spent 10 days most definitely on the horse in January, I have done an extra 10 days off it in February.

Alcohol is a life pleasure for me. It makes my life nicer, I don't spend daft amounts on it, I am not anti-social, my health is fine and I am not developing some dependency to it. So I drink it.

 

[MissTillyFlop]

BTW, there seems to be this thing happening here where people are presuming that because I have given up drinking, that I think drinking is evil and that everyone else should stop.

Drinking is fun and I love it, it's just that it also makes ME personally quite ill and also quite portly, so I stopped drinking. This doesn't bode well for my pushy mates

Everyone else carry on as you were. I just wanted to ask those who stopped drinking how they managed to stay off it.

 

[roadrash]

will power, determination and it also heped that i am a bit of a stubborn b*st*rd

 

[rich p]

I drink on weekdays and weekends.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I drink on weekdays and weekends.

At last, some restraint.

 

[vernon]

I only drink on days that have two or more vowels in them.

 

[Arch]

I gave up booze for a couple of years in my twenties, no problem. It was just a reaction against Dad who drank too much. I guess I drank a fair bit when I first became a mature student later, keeping up with all the others, but now I can generally take it or leave it. I don't usually drink on my own at home, that seems like a slippery slope.

I like to think I drink because I fancy a specific drink - a beer, or a glass of wine, or much more rarely, and usually in summer, a G and T. On a hot day out on a bike, I'm most likely to fancy a shandy for refreshment.

I think I'd worry if I just wanted 'a drink, any drink'.

 

[green1]

I only drink when I'm out, I had an unopened crate of beer the the fridge and someone didn't believe that it was the same unopened crate when they came round 3 months later.

 

[GaryA]

I had a nasty visus just after xmas which hospitalised me for a few nights...I gave up booze for 2 weeks; cant say I felt any better as soon as I recovered I was back to the odd couple pints during the week and a session at weekends
I enjoy it too much!
real ale btw

 

[grumpyoldgit]

I only drink when I'm out, I had an unopened crate of beer the the fridge and someone didn't believe that it was the same unopened crate when they came round 3 months later.

Same here,never drank at home,swmbo had to buy the small bottles of wine to have with dinner.

 

[MissTillyFlop]

I had a nasty visus just after xmas which hospitalised me for a few nights...I gave up booze for 2 weeks; cant say I felt any better as soon as I recovered I was back to the odd couple pints during the week and a session at weekends
I enjoy it too much!
real ale btw

Ale is what I miss - and Wheat beer.

And Malbec

And atomic spritzer

However, given that every time I drink one of the above I get a searing pain in my abdomen, I think missing them is the better option.

 

[vernon]

It's Mon today Vern, bad luck

I'll have a short then.