Quitting drinking is very difficult, but not impossible. There are how many times a man has said to himself in a moment, "Enough! " And stops drinking forever. Most often, the proximity of death prompts such a move. For example, when a doctor says, "You either stop drinking, my dear, or you stop living. " And a person, hoping to stay alive, completely rejects alcohol. There are thousands of similar cases. There are definitely people like that among your friends.
However, an incurable disease is not a prerequisite for stopping drinking. Why wait for a critical condition if you can’t get yourself into it? A bad incentive for an alcoholic? Yes, indeed, it is unlikely that you will be able to get used to this harmful passion on your own. You have to want it here. Yes, not only to want, but to want unconditionally, to convince yourself that life is impossible without this step (and it is true! ).
Such a state cannot be explained in words. This can only be understood by those who have decided to end their addiction once and for all. Plus, it’s not just the habit of drinking, it’s all the other dangerous addictions - smoking, eating a lot, gambling, and so on.
And it takes time. It’s time to recognize yourself as a necessary, worthy, real, standing person, and not a drunken rag. It's time to think soberly. It’s time to develop an irresistible urge in yourself - to stop drinking.
Waiting for help from some kind of panacea, foreign books, or wizard wizards - to hurt yourself. All of this helps, of course, but only on the condition that a person has an unconditional independent desire to stop drinking. If we don’t make an effort on our part, it’s a waste of money and time. All that matters here is a firm belief in the correctness of your own willpower and the direction you have chosen.
Have you decided on this decisive step? You are a real person! Brave, strong! Will succeed!
There are a few ways to get rid of your obsessive desire to drink, but it’s more distracting. 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, as a mantra, "I'm used to drinking. "
- Take a warm bath twice a day. Drink 2 cups of hot tea in the bathroom.
- Drink 8-10 glasses of water between meals.
- After eating, take a walk, refrain from drinking companies where the temptation to drink is too great.
- If the urge to drink is unbearable, take a warm shower. On the one hand, drinking in the shower is quite difficult; on the other hand, it calms the nerves.
- Avoid spicy foods and spices.
- Reduce your consumption of fish, poultry, meat, drink less tea, coffee, measured uric acid, ammonia in meat and caffeine in tea and coffee increase your drinking stimulus.
- Eat as many fruits and vegetables as possible, cut down on sweets, and the urge to drink will go away much faster.
- Take vitamin complexes, especially vitamin B.
- Always be determined in your desire to give up this habit. There is no "but", "maybe" and so on. A definite "no" every time a desire or an opportunity arises has never let anyone down. And don't be discouraged, even if it's very difficult, don't fall into the old way of life unintentionally. Fight depression - justwith a positive attitude!
The effect of diet on the desire to drink
And a few more words about food: laboratory tests have shown that consuming certain foods contributes to the urge to drink. Such products are tea, coffee, spices, sugar products. These foods have the same effect on smokers.
Scientists have found that vegetarians are significantly less prone to alcohol and smoking than carnivores.