Quit drinking. Take the sober-pill Anons, and take control of your lives. It ruins cultures

are you guys 12 or something?

Are you a dumb frat boy who thinks everyone should drink alcohol? Probably.

6 months next saturday
lost tons of weight 50+ lbs
sleep better
smallish downside tho. alcohol is really good at deadening emotion and thats something i always appreciated about it. harder to stay even. when i was drinking all the time i was just one calm mood unless between drinking periods now im all over the place.

I felt that way until I realized I was drinking 'a little bit' every night because I couldn't stop. I wasn't getting shit faced drunk. I wasn't ruining my life. I could have kept at it for 40 more years. But it's not healthy and unless you're drinking to get past buzzed there's really no point in it.
I remember buying two 32oz cans and feeling proud I 'only' had two beers, but then realized 64oz was basically a 6 pack. I wondered what the point of drinking every night was. I was doing it to watch movies, read books, play games, or just while sitting and talking to friends. Anything less than 2 beers would leave me unable to sleep. And the sugar/carbs content alone was way too many empty calories if I was going to stay fit.
It's not the same for everyone, so don't take this as me being preachy about your drinking. I know some people can literally just do a single glass of wine for dinner and call it good every night.
I quit, got fit, feel better, sleep better, look better. The only side effect is that I'm not as horny as I used to be and my wife kinda misses that. Oh well, so be it.

Yeah I'll just invite the boys over for some Mario kart Haha! Want to know how I know you've never been invited to a social gathering?

Why, do you think there's something wrong with getting exercise and not drinking a can of heart disease every night?

How could engage socially with his bros and and potential mates without alcohol? The social crutch is an absolute neseccity for those with bland personalities.

I don't know user, if it wasn't for alcohol then I would probably eat a shotgun shell like Cobain.

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What if I told you that different people are different and react to narcotics in different ways

Yeah as if you don't spend hours every evening looking at a screen on your phone, laptop, tv, vdu etc

You sound like someone who needs their ass kicked.

user, I have been battling this demon for quite some time, never really realized how bad it was. During the week for some reason it is harder. The weekends it seems I am moar in control, but for some reason towards the end of my shift at work I will get the urge to go grab some alcohol. I think I need an exorcism sometimes!

Or you could exercise self control and just have one beer and call it good.

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I know what addiction is like user. I'm not a pro, but I an tell you what worked for me.
Get exercise. Hit the gym, go for a run, lift weights, the positive effects on your body and mind are incredible, you should definitely look it up

You sound like a lush.

user I feel like I can’t stop it’s really destroying me but I am so depressed when I don’t drink. I lost the love of my life and being sober just makes me feel all that shit over again. To top it off everything about the world is so fucked its unbearable.

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just keep getting drunk and thinking it makes you cooler you absolute tool

t. Ahmed Dublini

I like drinking. Would never give it up.
I occasionally spend weeks or months not drinking, because I'm either busy or something gets in the way, and I don't gain anything from not drinking. Alcohol is a blessing and a great way to relieve stress, socialize, make friends and reset.

What about me? I drink maybe three beers in a night, about 3 days a month when I can get home for the weekend and relax. Is there really much harm in that?

Maybe the stress is a sign you should move towards living a more stress free life, instead of coping by drinking poison.

Funny enough, user, this is exactly what I am doing on the weekends! I don't drink on the weekends, I don't feel stressed out by work and my body doesn't hurt from standing at work for 8+ hours.

As soon as I get back to work though. Often times I think maybe I just need to quit my job...but it is all a mental game.

I just need to win at this one, because if I don't...i'll be dead from some type of alcohol related disease by the time I'm 60!

What's the point? You die in the end regardless. And make no mistake, we all die alone. When that shit closes in on you and you see everyone else around you full of life as you feel your own life slipping away, you are alone.
And all that shit about Jesus and God you used to convince yourself it doesn't end starts peeling away as you literally feel the end coming up fast.

"Dammit, I should have done more drugs and partied more in life!"

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This thread isn't for you. Alcoholics can't taper or moderate. It's all or nothing. This advice is for them, not you. No need to stand so righteously.

>alcoholic cope

I'm going to go make myself an American Trilogy and read the rest of this amazing thread. Cheers!

>Edgelord alcohol and drug cope

It's the same as NoFap. If you can moderate yourself then it's not an issue, but if you can't then abstaining will improve your life.

>But it's not healthy and unless you're drinking to get past buzzed there's really no point in it
Factual
Alcohol is the shittiest drug
>expensive per volume
>shitty high
>shitty side effects
>shitty withdrawal

Not going to give it up entirely but I brew my own beer. I only drink the stuff I make and since it takes about 5-7 weeks in between batches it makes it a real treat. Ive got some hops vines in my backyard that are just about ready for harvest.

>the love of my life
women are all more or less the same my friend

could try meditation for a week? 10 minutes everyday, mabey that'll help your brain stay relaxed

I know the feeling, user. I'm having a rough time with it too. When I get the urge, it is so strong that I just give in to it. Most of the day, I don't think about it until towards the end of the day at work. Then I just want to go to the liquor store and grab a bag of tacos, then sit and relax. Pretty soon I'm drunk...but my tolerance is so high that I don't feel drunk, so sometimes I actually drive back to the liquor store to get moar alcohol!
It's a horrible addiction and I am making a commitment to knock this shit off, because being a drunk is NOT who I am!
Best to you, user!

Everything is cope. What else do you have? Nihilism. It's either cope or nihilism.
Also, I do speed, not booze.

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Has jaded me to dating and getting married. They really all are the same.

Like the great Clint Eastwood once said, "Man's got to know his limitations."

Hm, I'm constantly tired but I do drink few bottles of vodka/week, maybe I should give it pause, can I still enjoy beer or two a day or do I need full stop?

Give up alcohol
Eat oysters
Eat sardines
Go for a walk in the sun wearing only shorts and shoes for 15 minutes a day in the middle of the day

I'm actually a nihilist myself, I just think it's obvious that drinking is bad for one's character, bad for one's health, bad for families and bad for the community at large

OK, I'm ready to be sold on this no drinking alcohol thing.

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>I like drinking. Would never give it up.
Enjoy heart disease and a fucked up liver then

I've been talking to a friend at work and that's exactly what he told me. Not that he practices it, but because he heard about it on TV that meditation helps with reprogramming the mind.

I know what I have been doing this past couple weekends is exercising at the gym and at our gym center we have a huge swimming pool.

Lately, I've been swimming for long periods of time (seems like time goes by fast when you swim), and as I swim on my back looking up at the ceiling, I've been saying prayers and the Our Father.
I'm not a religofag, but I think it has been helping as a form of affirmation.
Whatever the answer is...I am ready to stop drinking and that is the FIRST step to recovery of addiction!
I quit smoking and vaping, so I figure this is the next on my list.

Maybe so but that dosnt change what I felt about her
It’s so bad for me that I drive drunk almost every day in order to make a second trip to the liquor store. It’s gotten so bad when I am essentially pretty functional when drunk like I’m shit faced right now but can still type straight. It’s killing me I know it is but dealing with her death is too painful.

>Nihilism
>I do speed

You poor, pathetic bastard.

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>double ipa
>call it good
negro pls

TV? It causes me more damage through stress than the weed and booze combined.
Go for run? I just got done staining 1600 sqft of floors. My fucking body aches. Got enough exercise today.
If you're a desk jockey, yeah, you better watch your health. My loser job keeps me healthy enough that zoomers think this GenXer is 30 years old

I made this Little Italy, last night. Pretty good variation on a Manhattan.

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I'm day drunk and have been drinking hard for like 3.5 years. It's time to stop bros

He was agreeing with you you fucking retard

Swimming, etc that's the key replacing the drinking time with something else.

i drink a 12 pk a night. wish i could stop. when i do im boring and would rather not be around people.
not good

based trips. the heartburn is the worst.

Nice! you're gonna be an uberman by the time you've finished! I actually do a bit of swimming myself, great way to keep your joints healthy

What's wrong with speed?
Also, I'm not nihilistic. I just don't expect living a pure life to bring me a better end than living a bit wild.
It's very hard to translate into words what I really believe. But being sXe or a teetotaler is known faggotry.

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This. I used to smash a can or two every night didn't get drunk so no buzz so what was the point? Now I only drink at events like weddings or birthdays etc and the occasional night out with the lads and i feel so much better for it.

He was agreeing with me by accusing me of being an alcoholic? No, he was acting like a jew and trying to flip the table on me.

Nothing wrong with not wanting to be around other people

I think this was a Casino cocktail if I remember correctly. I hope I'm inspiring more people to go drink. Go to bars, talk with people, run up a really high tab, and try not to over do it.

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> coming from an Irishman

oh shit

>I must cope

I suppose the main principle is that you don't need alcohol to have a good time and that it's way healthier to avoid it

>Are you a dumb frat boy who thinks everyone should drink alcohol? Probably.
>How could engage socially with his bros and and potential mates without alcohol? The social crutch is an absolute neseccity for those with bland personalities.
This was him sarcastically agreeing with you by making fun of the guy you originally quoted
>You sound like someone who needs their ass kicked.
Then you jumped down this throat

>encouraging people to drink
what if one of those people is an abusive drunk, and by encouraging it you make a child get beaten?
scum are the kind of people who don't consider how this affects others

You all do realize that drinking helps turn off shit in the background right? And no, I don't mean my life blows dick, my wife is a cheating whore, etc... so I need an escape type "background" either.

i quit drinking years ago but none of those things happened to me

I've found that all my sad feelings like "maybe I should hide in a dark room and speak to no one" are caused by the drinking. Anxiety is a direct chemical result of the drinking, look it up if fucks up your brain chemistry. Get through the first few weeks of it and then you start feeling like a human being without it.

fuck off achmed, cultivate wine and brewing beer are deeply rooted european culture, if you are not be able to drink a glas now and then without becoming a raging sickly alcoholic it says a lot about you. you stupid merchantroach

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You could plant your own garden?

You are suffering, user. As humans, that is something we all experience in our lives here in this world. We suffer because we desire. For you, you desire the love of your life back...for me, I desire the same. Yours and mine addiction is being used as a replacement for love, when it isn't a replacement at all. It's like putting a tiny band aid on a large wound...it is not the solution.
Then also to realize that your suffering is also affecting people around you (that you might not even realize at the moment), people that do love you.
Realize WHO those people are, and go to them for the healing that you need.
For me...I've been going to my daughter, and now my older brother called me and talked about his own alcoholism. Then he sent me a book.
So, I will probably start reading that book this weekend; and talk to my daughter tomorrow to tell her how I am feeling and how I am doing.
I won't lie to her, I will tell her I failed last week and I drank; and that this is a new week, and I will try again and take little bits of advice from friends, family, and even from this thread from Anons!
Most important thing is to keep talking to somebody...whoever it is...somebody. If you think there is nobody...you are wrong. There is SOMEBODY!
God Bless, user!

*kisses gently on the mouth*
I just work my ass off all day, get a hard workout in with heavy compound lifts and pound a few beers at the end of the day to help ease into relaxation mode
I'm jacked, very healthy, have great skin and a harem of women who adore my thick, virile physique

>and by encouraging it you make a child get beaten?

Perhaps that child will learn some self defense skills and grow from the encounter. Childhood trauma builds character.

>scum are the kind of people who don't consider how this affects others

I'm into femdom and I'm pretending you're an angry Irish woman who's berating me.. So you're scum who didn't consider how what you're doing is affecting people like me. Now tell me I'm a filthy degenerate and spank me you iron faced, bespectacled Irish secretary.

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i mean, im not awkward or anything, i have no problem having a conversation. i would just rather not be having it
ive quit for over a year before. lost most of my older friends.

they think having a beer or two means you're uncomfortable around people or something
>projecting that hard

drinking and doing drugs are at their core the same thing.

You're simply telling yourself that life is fine just the way it is now, and that there's no need to try and improve it

>thinks I'm an angry Irish woman
look at flag harder glutton

>i mean, im not awkward or anything, i have no problem having a conversation. i would just rather not be having it
Same
>ive quit for over a year before. lost most of my older friends.
How good of friends were they if not drinking ended your friendship

Shut up retard I don't care

>drinking and doing drugs are at their core the same thing.
right and some of us - the smart, sexy ones - can handle it and gauge our usage in a healthy responsible way
not everyone is like your shitheal divorced parents you projecting fuckshits

Wise decision brother. You could do worse than following the word of wisdom.

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>Shut up retard I don't care
post your dick then, faggot

That's the point.
Did you know that in the 1830's over half of the irish population were sober? Alcohol sales went sky high when the famine hit, and then it was like nothing had changed

you are not supposed to turn that shit off. You are supposed to deal with it.
Trying to avoid problems will only exacerbate them.

So if you have problems, drinking is going to make it worse. If you are feeling fine, why ruin it with a drink?

Why do people who are really into sobriety all act and talk the exact same way? It's like they become mindless fanatics about the evils of the drink or whatever and can't understand that 99% of people don't have a problem with alcohol.

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I drank pretty much every day for a year and a half and it was the most depressing shit-tier era of my life. I haven't had anything other than a few glasses of wine for the past 2 months and my life has gotten far better. You don't have to be a complete fag about it who obsessively doesn't drink just try to restrict it to one drink a day at home.

Life is also much more boring if you're a straight edge pussy. This is the current state of my cabinet of debauchery or my liquor cabinet. I have friends/family over and I make them cocktails. Usually I have a few cocktails on the weekend and maybe 1-2 on a week night if the occasion calls for it. Cocktail making for me is like cooking and I treat it like the art that it is.

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moderation is alien to many people, drinking aglas of wine to a perfectly cooked meal is culture not drinking

7 months sober
it’s worth it

>you are not supposed to turn that shit off. You are supposed to deal with it.
when you work 14-16 hour days it can be hard to turn your brain off, finanon.
I wouldnt expect you to understand because you probably work 20 hrs a week and get a goverment subsidize mercedes or some obnoixious shit

>drinking is cool cope

Weed is better than alcohol. Anyone who is addicted to alcohol and not weed is a fucking goofball.
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