Stopping drinking is very difficult, but not impossible. How many cases are there where a person at one point has said to himself, "Enough! And stop drinking forever. Most often, the proximity of death leads to such a step. For example, when a doctor says: "Either you stop drinking, my dear, or you stop living". And a person, hoping to stay alive, completely refuses alcohol. There are thousands of similar cases. There are surely such people among your acquaintances.
However, an incurable disease is not a prerequisite for stopping alcohol consumption. Why wait for critical condition when you can't do it? Bad motivation for an alcoholic? Yes, indeed, it is unlikely that it will be possible to wean yourself from this pernicious passion on your own, without doing anything. Here, you have to want. Yes, not only wanting, but wanting unconditionally, to convince oneself that without this stage life is impossible (and it is true! ).
Such a state cannot be explained by words. It can only be understood by a person who has decided to end the addiction once and for all. Moreover, it is not only about the habit of drinking, but also about any other dangerous addiction - smoking, eating a lot, playing, etc.
And it takes time. It is time to realize yourself as a necessary, worthy, real and upright person, and not as a drunken rag. It is time to think soberly in silence. It is time to develop an overwhelming desire in you - to stop drinking.
To wait for help from some kind of miraculous drug, from foreign books or from wizards - to harm you. All of these means, of course, help, but only on the condition of a person's independent and unconditional desire to stop drinking. Without making any efforts on our part, it is a waste of money, of time. Here, only your own will and firm confidence in the correctness of the chosen direction is important.
Have you decided on this crucial step? You are a real person! Courageous, strong! You will succeed!
There are ways to help get rid of the obsessive desire to drink, but rather 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 quit 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 beverage companies, where the temptation to drink is too great.
- If the urge to drink is unbearable, take a hot shower. On the one hand, drinking in the shower is quite difficult; ), on the other hand, it will calm your nerves.
- Avoid spicy foods and condiments.
- Reduce the consumption of fish, poultry, meat, drink less tea, coffee, uric acid, ammonia in meat and caffeine in tea and coffee increase the desire for a drink.
- Eat as many fruits and vegetables as possible, cut back on sweets, and the urge to drink will go away 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" every time a desire arises or an opportunity has not yet disappointed anyone. And do not be discouraged, even if it is very difficult, do not fall into depression - it will inadvertently return you to the old way of life. Fight depression - only with a positive attitude!
Effects of diet on desire to drink
And a few more words on diet: Laboratory studies have shown that eating certain foods contributes to the urge to drink. These products are tea, coffee, condiments, sugar products. These foods have the same effect on smokers.
According to the observations of scientists, vegetarians have significantly less propensity for alcohol and tobacco than people who eat meat.