Quitting drinking is very difficult, but not impossible. How many cases are there where a person, at any given time, has said to himself "Enough! " and stopped drinking forever. Most of the time, the proximity of death leads to this step. For example, when a doctor says, "Either you stop drinking, my dear, or you stop living. "And a person, hoping to stay alive, refuses alcohol completely. There are thousands of similar cases. Certainly there are people like that among your acquaintances.
However, an incurable disease is not a prerequisite for stopping drinking. Why wait for a critical condition when you can't bring yourself to it? Bad incentive for an alcoholic? Yes indeed, it is unlikely that you can get rid of this pernicious passion on your own, with nothing to do. Here you have to want it. Yes, not just wanting, but wanting unconditionally, to convince yourself that without this step, life is impossible (and that's true! ).
Such a state cannot be explained in words. This can only be understood by a person who has decided to end their addiction once and for all. Furthermore, this is not just the habit of drinking, but also any other dangerous addiction - smoking, eating a lot, gambling, etc.
And that takes time. It's time to see yourself as a necessary, dignified, real, and upright person, not a drunken rag. It's time to think soberly in silence. It's time to develop an irresistible urge in yourself - to stop drinking.
Waiting for the help of some kind of miracle drug, foreign books or sorcerers - to harm themselves. All of these means, of course, help, but only on condition of a person's unconditional independent desire to stop drinking. Without making efforts on our part, it's a waste of money, time. Here, only your own willpower and firm confidence in the correctness of your chosen direction are important.
Have you decided on this crucial step? You are a real person! Brave, strong! You will get it!
There are a few ways to help get rid of the obsessive craving for drinking, but to distract it. Why not use them too?
Ten rules for those who want to stop drinking
- Take a few deep breaths when you feel like drinking. Repeat to yourself, like a mantra: "I've stopped drinking. "
- Take a hot bath twice a day. Drink 2 cups of hot tea in the bathroom.
- Drink 8 to 10 glasses of water between meals.
- Take a walk after eating, stay away from liquor companies, where the temptation to drink is great.
- If the urge to drink is unbearable, take a hot bath. On the one hand, drinking in the shower is quite difficult; ), on the other hand, calms your nerves.
- Avoid spicy foods and condiments.
- Reduce your consumption of fish, poultry, meat, drink less tea, coffee, because uric acid, ammonia in meat and caffeine in tea and coffee increase the desire to drink.
- Eat as much fruit and vegetables as possible, reduce your consumption of sweets and the urge to drink will pass much faster.
- Take vitamin complexes, especially vitamin B.
- Always be firm in your desire to break the habit. No "but", "maybe", etc. A firm "no" whenever a desire or opportunity arises has yet to let anyone down. And don't get discouraged, even if it's very difficult, don't fall into depression - inadvertently it will lead to the old way of life again. Fight depression - just with a positive attitude!
Effects of Diet on Desire to Drink
And a few more words about food: laboratory studies have shown that eating certain foods contributes to the desire to drink. These products are tea, coffee, condiments, sugar products. These foods have the same effect on smokers.
According to the scientists' observations, vegetarians are significantly less prone to alcohol and smoking than meat eaters.