Quitting drinking is very difficult, but not impossible. How many cases are around when a person at one moment said to himself "Enough! "and quit drinking forever. Most often, the proximity of death pushes to such a step. For example, when a doctor says: "Either you quit drinking, my dear, or you quit living. "And a person, hoping to stay alive, completely refuses alcohol. There are thousands of similar cases. Surely there are such people among your acquaintances.
However, an incurable disease is not a prerequisite for stopping drinking. Why wait for a critical state when you can not bring yourself to this? Bad incentive for an alcoholic? Yes, indeed, it is unlikely that it will be possible to wean oneself from this pernicious passion on its own, out of nothing to do. Here you have to want. Yes, not just to want, but to want unconditionally, to convince yourself that without this step life is impossible (and this is true! ).
Such a state cannot be explained in words. This can only be understood by a person who has decided to end the addiction once and for all. Moreover, this is not only the habit of drinking, but also any other dangerous addiction - smoking, eating a lot, gambling, etc.
And this takes time. It's time to realize yourself as a necessary, worthy, real, standing person, and not a drunken rag. Time to think soberly in silence. Time to develop an irresistible desire in yourself - to quit drinking.
Expecting help from some kind of miraculous drugs, foreign books or wizard-wizards - to harm yourself. All these means, of course, help, but only on condition of the unconditional independent desire of a person to quit 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 the chosen direction are important.
Have you decided on this crucial step? You are a real person! Courageous, strong! You will succeed!
There are some ways to help get rid of the obsessive desire to drink, but rather to distract from 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 warm bath twice a day. Drink 2 cups of warm tea while in the bathroom.
- Drink 8-10 glasses of water between meals.
- Take a walk after eating, stay away 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 will calm your nerves.
- Avoid spicy foods and condiments.
- Reduce consumption of fish, poultry, meat, drink less tea, coffee, becauseuric acid, ammonia in meat, and caffeine in tea and coffee increase the urge to have 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 let anyone down yet. And do not be discouraged, even if it is very difficult, do not fall into depression - it will inadvertently lead to the old way of life again. Fight depression - only 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. Such 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 to alcohol and tobacco than people who eat meat.