How to stop drinking beer

Beer is not considered a strong alcoholic drink, and it seems that there is no point in drinking a glass or two before bed. But daily drinking of beer causes serious consequences, as well as a strong addiction, which you cannot always overcome on your own.

Everyone has their own dose of beer, which makes them feel good in the evening and bad in the morning. But if a man drank beer in the evening, and it was more than three liters, and a woman had more than a liter, then it won’t be good in the morning, for either one or the other.

All the consequences of alcohol poisoning are obvious: a fume that makes the passengers in the trolleybus next to you shudder, a headache. Also nausea, depression, poor coordination.

beer addiction

If you decide to have a glass of beer with friends, then this should not develop into daily drinking sessions in large quantities. Behavior changes, aggression and irritability appear, which can spill out on the family - partner, children, parents. Because they are the ones who are closest to everyone, they are the weak link on which you can throw out your dissatisfaction.

Even a bottle of beer makes some people aggressive. Often a foggy brain does not distinguish who is in front of it. The boundaries of morality are blurred, and the sense of danger goes away. And then those actions are committed that a sober person may regret for the rest of his life.

If you are reading this article, then perhaps it’s time to stop drinking beer yourself, or perhaps someone close to you has a problem. A glass of beer with friends in the evenings has already become your constant companion, and you simply have no idea what you will do if suddenly there is no beer.

Most do not consider beer addiction to be a problem or illness, since it has a low alcohol content. Advertising in which television stars, pop stars and even athletes drink beer acts as a stimulating factor. This creates a kind of community in which everyone who buys and drinks beer becomes involved in something more than just gatherings with friends.

People on TV screens or on posters look absolutely happy and, oddly enough, sober. They celebrate a goal with a glass in hand or drink beer after a long tourist trek. They are celebrating. Any advertisement settles in the brain because it is repeated with a certain periodicity, inspiring - here it is, the way out of all life situations. Take a glass of beer and you will also feel joy.

Now look at the beer alcoholic from the outside. These could be your bottle buddies or drinking acquaintances. What will you see? Do they look as good as the ones on screen?

Female and male alcoholism

Beer is a man's drink. You can drink liters of beer and still stand on your feet. So if this is a weak drink, then why can’t a woman drink it?

Advertising rarely features girls with a glass of beer. Predilection for it is rather fostered by the environment. We’ll talk further about how to get rid of alcoholism. Now we won’t talk about the moral side of the problem, but let’s try to understand what changes occur in the female body when drinking beer.

female beer alcoholism

Once in the intestines, the ethanol contained in any alcoholic drink is broken down in the liver. Women have less hormone that is able to completely break down and remove it, so the period of breakdown occurs longer, which means that the poisoning of the body in a drinking woman will be much stronger.

Gulchatay! Show your face

Beer consumption often affects women's appearance. And it may already be too late to fight skin aging. And beer was consumed for only six months. Dilated and burst blood vessels on the face, a red tip of the nose, swelling and much more do not decorate a woman at all. And they, the consequences, will definitely come. So is it worth poisoning yourself with beer, realizing that in a few years, the face and skin, which is often valued most by women, will turn into something that will be disgusting to look at. And definitely, it will give away a drinking woman. Accordingly, push people away.

The smell of beer from dad is scary, but from mom

Every glass of beer breaks the psyche of your children, but all parents wish them nothing. A drinking mother, even after one bottle of beer, causes panic in any child. And the aggression that comes after a beer party most often spills over onto the closest creature - the child.

Unborn child and beer

Drinking beer during pregnancy causes alcohol withdrawal in the newborn. Do I need to say anything further? About what his internal organs or psyche would be like if the expectant mother did not disdain a glass of beer at night?

The baby constantly screams, he is twisted, he is in pain. Having just been born, he already has abstinence syndrome - withdrawal syndrome. Often such children are born with pathologies incompatible with life.

Does this only apply to the mother? No. If a child was conceived by a drunk father whose body has already undergone changes, then the baby may suffer from a bunch of diseases that cannot be predicted in advance.

If you are planning a pregnancy, avoid drinking any alcoholic beverages. And of course, you also need to stop drinking beer, although it is partially a fermentation product, I am not just diluted alcohol. If you can’t think about yourself, think about the closest person in your life - your unborn child.

Beer causes no less damage to men. The thing is that phytoestrogen, a female hormone (an analogue of progesterone, the pregnancy hormone), which is contained in beer, inhibits male hormones. There are many consequences, one of them is impotence.

beer belly

And there are also many "fun" consequences in the form of swollen mammary glands, a beer belly, and other little things that turn a man into a sexless creature.

What happens in the body of an alcoholic

the effect of alcohol on the body

Let's start with the brain.Alcohol causes changes in chemical connections in gray matter. The chemical element that is built into the brain's wiring system can only be removed through medication. This leads to psychophysical disorders, memory impairment, delayed reactions, and in some cases even dementia.

Stomach.Beer contains fermentation products and alcohol. Once in the stomach, it, of course, causes fermentation. Over time, the gastric mucosa atrophies, and gastric juice ceases to be secreted. As a result, beer causes gastritis, which develops into chronic gastritis, causing:

  • general weakness;
  • constant fatigue;
  • frequent pain in the epigastric region (stomach area);
  • problems with stool, and many other extremely unpleasant consequences.

Added to this condition are chronic irritability, aggression and everything associated with it.

The filter in the body is the liver.It absorbs and passes through itself everything that you put into your mouth. Chronic alcohol intoxication causes liver cell destruction. It stops working to cleanse the body of toxins and works only to remove the consequences of dubious pleasure from the body.

Beer hepatitis quickly and easily leads to cirrhosis of the liver. But they haven’t really learned how to treat it yet.

Kidneys.They get poisoned next. They remove fluids that contain all harmful substances that are not absorbed into the blood. Alcohols irritate the renal pelvis, destroying its tissue. Next, the kidneys begin to work in an enhanced mode, removing from the body not only decay products, but also useful microelements and materials from which the cells of our body are built.

But a kidney infarction can occur even in a novice alcoholic. This is the necrosis of the vessels that nourish the kidney tissue, or their thrombosis. The consequence is that the part of the kidney that has stopped receiving blood flow simply dies.

Heart.When alcohol enters the body, increased stress falls on the heart. It occurs due to the fact that after a gram of alcohol the blood vessels immediately become overflowing with blood. The heart is forced to work harder. Varicose veins do not only occur in the heart. Abuse of beer leads to the fact that the blood vessels become flabby, unable to contract, and lose elasticity. And then the heart does not receive sufficient blood flow, becomes overgrown with fat, the walls thicken, and then a heart attack is not far away.

"If I had known where you would fall, I would have laid out straws"

How much do you need to drink to get all these problems? It's different for everyone. Some people drink beer for years, while others need only a few months for the changes in the body to become irreversible. There is only one way to avoid them: stop drinking.

When is it time to think about the consequences?

It's better on the first day you plan to try the beer. In general, it’s never too late to do this. But there are several points that should seriously alert you.

  1. You want to drink right in the morning, without waiting for the evening.
  2. You can't live a single day without a bottle of beer.
  3. You were going to drink a bottle, but you can’t stop even after three.
  4. Little things begin to irritate you, unaccountable fear appears and depression increases.
  5. Your attention is distracted and you can't complete simple tasks.
  6. You are planning a pregnancy – this applies to both women and men.

This may sound rude, but with such symptoms it is too late to think about the consequences. We already need to do something, take clearly targeted measures to change the situation. And most importantly, stop drinking beer.

How to cure alcohol addiction or beer addiction

If a glass of beer a day has become your constant companion, then this is the first sign that your body has become addicted. Chemical reactions have taken effect, inextricable connections have formed in the brain, and it’s time for you to contact a specialist.

how to cure beer addiction

The first step for those who can stop drinking on their own.

If you decide to try to stop drinking beer on your own, without the participation of doctors, then first try to stay without alcohol for one month. Just 30 days, if you are not an alcoholic, then it is not so difficult.

The pull towards a mug or bottle, especially in the first days, will be strong. You will need to switch your brain to something that will replace your beer. This could be an exciting hobby that will occupy your time and attention, or a job that will completely take away your free time.

Ask your loved ones for support - they will probably not refuse you. And most importantly, move away from your surroundings, avoid those people who are not averse to missing a bottle and will pull you back with all their might.

You didn’t always drink beer and only enjoy it, did you? Remember what made you happy before, and try to replace beer with other joys.

Did you manage to last 30 days? Then the next step is 6 months, then a year. If everything is fine, it means that you were able to independently break the chemical reactions in the brain and recover psychologically.

You can afford a glass of champagne for the New Year, or wine for your birthday. But not more. If you relapse, it will be much more difficult to recover again.

A common phrase is: "I can stop drinking whenever I want. I haven’t drank (drank) for a year, " is the first sign of returning to old habits. Don't start again, remember the first week of quitting alcohol. This may discourage you from wanting to drink.

Step two. Play sports.

If you drank beer not as a sedative to calm down, but in order to become bolder, then the adrenaline that sports will bring you can easily replace alcohol. Well, maybe not so easy. The main thing is not to reach for a cold drink after a run or a punching bag.

Swimming also saves. It both loads the body and relaxes it. In addition, harmful substances are removed through our skin, and water washes them away. And this is about the issue of cleansing the body. Literally any physical activity is suitable for this.

Withdrawal syndrome - time to see a doctor.

Everything is the same as in a baby whose parents drank alcohol:

  • tremor (not only the hands shake, but the whole body as a whole);
  • hallucinations;
  • headaches, high blood pressure, vomiting, convulsions.

All these symptoms are a reason to consult a doctor, and you can’t put it off any longer. This requires immediate treatment. First, it will be medicinal, aimed at removing alcohol and breakdown products from the blood, and then psychological. It all depends on the condition of the body.

Often relatives of the drinker, who cannot force the patient to see a doctor, use various traditional coding methods, go to their grandparents - they helped their neighbor! Do not self-medicate. At a minimum, this may be wasted money, and at maximum, such a non-standard and unconventional solution can lead to serious illnesses. In some cases (drinking with herbs, adding "miraculous" emetics, etc. ) to death.

The stage is psychological.

Psychologists have many techniques that can help you stop drinking. One option is group therapy. This may sound funny, and for some it is completely unacceptable, but communicating with people who are quitting drinking, with people who are in the same situation, really helps.

One technique is to try replacing beer. You can use this option yourself. Start over. Remember the first time you drank beer? What was connected with this? Perhaps you drank with friends to appear cool. But now beer is not cool. It's cool to be healthy and rich now.

If your drinking is because you want to recapture childhood love or go back to your teenage years, then all you need to do is recreate and relive those moments, only now without the beer.

Avoid contact with drinking friends and colleagues. This will give you time to get used to your new, healthy lifestyle. And, besides, you can easily avoid ridicule, because such "comrades" often take it "weakly". So why put yourself at risk of succumbing? For someone who has quit drinking, such friends are no longer advisors.

Believe me, such simple psychological techniques can replace beer for you. But it’s better if you get help from an experienced psychologist who can identify the underlying causes. After all, the problem does not always lie on the surface. A specialist will help you cope with depression, irritability, cravings for beer and low-alcohol drinks.

What to do if a teenager drinks

Not all parents know whether their child has tried beer or not. Often children try beer in their first company. They do not yet understand the full consequences of their actions. For them, this is one of the stages of growing up. Most boys imitate their father. And what? He drinks beer and nothing happens to him.

teenage alcoholism

The effects of beer on the body in adolescents manifest themselves faster and more strongly. These can be serious hormonal imbalances, as well as all of the above diseases.

If you are on friendly terms with your son or daughter, then talk to him or her. Just don’t talk at the moment when the child comes home "under the table. "It just won't do anything.

Talk to him without shouting, calmly, and remember - a monologue is not perceived. Try not to lose your temper and get your child talking. The more your child talks, the easier it will be to have a conversation. Only in this way can you change the situation and prevent the development of beer alcoholism.

What to do if contact with the child is lost? Here you definitely need to contact a psychologist-psychotherapist. Not to the grandmother for a conspiracy, not to psychics, not to sorcerers - just to an experienced doctor.

If you and your child try to solve the problem, you will not only prevent its further development and the strengthening of alcohol dependence. You can also establish contact with a teenager.

Reasons why teenagers may drink

Example of parents.This is the first and most important factor. If you suddenly notice something unusual in your teenager's behavior, remove all alcohol from the house. If you stop drinking, your child will do it again. So start with yourself. Lead a sober lifestyle. Show that this is what is normal, and not an evening watching TV with a bottle of beer and popcorn.

Company.If people are drinking in a group, then change the environment. That’s right, don’t TRY to get your child out, but do it. Perhaps a sports section, a different social circle, or sometimes just moving to another place will help.

Advertising.It is impossible to protect from it. Beer advertising follows us everywhere - it’s a lot of money, which producers will not refuse, despite the laws. In this case, there is only one way out - anti-advertising. Talk to your child, only leave the moralizing tone for your subordinates. And if you don’t know what to do, then a psychologist will help him stop drinking.