Addiction to alcohol is a habit that always leads to the most sad consequences.The patient is gradually falling, reduces the standard of living, loses the feeling of value of himself and dies.It is necessary to fight the habit!And it doesn’t matter at all, a long drink or a short, wealthy person or not so - you can refuse alcohol once and for all.Moreover, do it yourself, without the help of professional specialists.
The consequences of alcohol consumption
Unfortunately, alcohol is considered the norm in modern society.Not a single holiday, not a single celebration can do without drinking-for someone it becomes an episode in life, and someone becomes an alcoholic.To determine how far the disease has gone, you should honestly answer several questions:
- Accepting strong drinks several times a month is the norm.
- Starting to drink, you cannot stop until you reach the "norm" of relaxation.
- We forgot how to relax without alcohol.
The presence of at least one positive answer should serve as a reason for the decision to get rid of the habit, and quit drinking forever.In addition to drinking is expensive, there are a number of reasons for different orders:
- Medical reasons.Due to the constant use of alcohol, health worsens: heart, kidneys, nervous system, tuberculosis, oncological diseases - the register is great.In alcoholics, inferior children are often born.
- Social.Due to some relaxing factors, a person can endure the law, cause injuries to himself.
Important!If it is decided to quit drinking, then you can’t do it sharply, during binge!Doctors confirm the sad consequences that can occur, up to death.
The consequences of a sharp refusal of alcohol:
- Significant increase in blood pressure;
- Excessive heart load;
- Expansion of coronary vessels;
- Manifestation of arrhythmias;
- Heart attacks;
- The occurrence of alcoholic delirium.
In the case of a sharp refusal, the body experiences severe loads and often the patient needs professional assistance.It is best to quit drinking gradually, reducing the dose of alcohol to zero.
How to quit drinking yourself
To refuse to drink, you need to find the reason for the desire to drink.And here we are faced with myths surrounding alcohol.
Alcohol is not a drug
Alcohol is the most common drug in the world.Being an easily accessible tool, it is used even by children, regardless of their gender and age.The WHO data confirms that alcohol takes 4th place in terms of danger on the body.Only heroin, cocaine and barbiturates are ahead.The legality of drinks does not make it less safe.People are in a state of hangover syndrome are ready to commit a crime in order to get another dose.
Any event in life is an occasion to drink
The prevailing habits to celebrate any event with alcohol in the team, at home - this is the tradition of many countries.Nobody ever thought about the expediency of tradition.If we take for the reason the peculiarity of alcohol to dull suffering, it is not clear why joyful events are also noted by drinking.In any case, the sobering will be difficult, and the problem, like sadness, will remain - is it worth drinking alcohol if it does not solve anything?
Drink helps to relieve stress
Accepting all the circumstances in life as stress, people are used to relaxing in the company with a glass of wine, a glass of vodka.To some extent, “treatment” with alcohol is useful, but has a lot of negative consequences:
- The body will get used to the method of relaxation and will require increasing new doses.
- The sensitivity to stress increases, the nerves are not so easy to “put in order” even after the slightest excitement.
- The habit of drinking will lead to the fact that any situation will become insoluble, the alcoholic begins to “hide” behind the bottle even from simple problems.
As you can see, absolutely all the reasons for drinking lead to a heavy hangover, which is why the body will be sick again.So is one stress to aggravate even more shock for the nerves?After taking alcohol, the body does not relax and rest, but works with a high voltage caused by alcohol processing.As a result, after a booze, a healthy person feels “broken”, but not resting in any way.
Alcohol is self -confidence, emancipation
Many take a dose for "courage" to talk in the company.This means that having fun in the society of sober people is no longer interesting, there is no one, and it became boring.In a normal society, it is customary to speak a sober head, let go of jokes and respond to them adequately.As a rule, a person who has stopped drinking begins to feel in the company of drinking people with a “white sheep” and here it is important not to break, not to accept a dose in order to be “like everyone else”.It is better to change society, it is much healthier and more pleasant than staying in the company where they are going only for the sake of drinking.
I rarely drink it - it is possible
If you drink only on Friday, then nothing terrible will happen.This is another myth of alcoholics.Friday gatherings will flow smoothly on the subboty and then lost day of illness from a hangover and again it's time to work.It turns out that the body did not rest, although there was an attempt to relax.Moreover, with the weekly consumption of alcohol, metabolism changes and every time we need an increasing dose - this is called alcoholism on weekends, is considered a disease and requires treatment.
It is useful to drink - this is what doctors say
To some extent, this statement has the right to life.It is only worth understanding that it is recommended to drink doctors and the dose of drunk.A glass of very good red wine is the maximum allowed for humans.However, even such a dose entails the risk of pain associated with the decay of ethanol.
Nothing will help the completed alcoholics
When the time of such a decision comes, it means that a person has already sank in his social status.Regardless of how he looks in public, he signed in his own impotence.Psychological failure, complexes will lead to an increase in doses, loss of oneself and heavy ailments.
Considering all the factors accepted in society, it should be concluded - there is not a single weighty factor so that it is impossible to quit drinking.
How to quit drinking?
Having dealt with the causes of the problem, it is time to understand how to quit drinking forever.This can be done both with the help of professional treatment and yourself.A huge number of people do without drinking, and live no less fun and fully.It turns out that the vice itself has no obligation factor - it's time to throw it!
But first, consider some points that everyone who wants to get rid of alcohol dependence faces:
- There will be fear of remaining without doping.
- There will be a feeling that they have lost something important and necessary.
- The lack of habit will have to be replaced with other classes.
- There will be a lack of dose.
You do not need to be afraid of this.Temporary inconvenience should be reacted, and they are temporary, nothing more, with understanding - as a protracted cold.With temperature, malaise, desire to take a potent medicine and recover.But the cold is not treated in one day, it needs time to develop and pass.So with the refusal of drinking: it takes some time for a good habit to develop and learn.
Important!Having abandoned alcohol, you should not "break away".The consequences of such a breakdown are not always predictable, as a result - a new round of the disease, already aggravated by an increase in the dose.
And yet, how to quit drinking alcohol yourself?Set a goal.It sounds trite, but this is the only way to solve all the problems.Let it be small steps or a global dream - it doesn’t matter.Understand that the process of destruction of the body can be turned back and pushing the next glass with beer.The main thing is not to make mistakes:
- Fighting physical and psycho -emotional addiction.Gathering in bars, beer for shrimp, vodka for barbecue - these are traditions that are deeply rooted.The first time will have to refuse to visit corporate parties, celebrations and friendly companies.Alcohol is a drug, having stopped taking which a person will experience a real breakdown.But it is better than morning with a hangover, evening in oblivion, life in misunderstanding and loneliness.
- To promise yourself to quit drinking, remember this promise.Give yourself small gifts for every subsequent day without alcohol.Let it be a walk in the park, a trinket, even depositing money in a piggy bank will help to restrain yourself and not buy a bottle of beer.
- Remove the causes of addiction from your life.Change the company, find a new job, friends, acquaintances, go to clubs for those who do not drink - mass variations.The stresses are perfectly “driven away” by shooting at targets, and troubles can be smooth out, rolling on a horse.There is a replacement of alcohol, and financially it may be even more profitable than a drink.
We will have to learn to relax without doping.It is possible to discover new talents or accustom to discipline.Ask for the help of relatives and friends, friends - they will support and you will not be lonely and scary.And here are a few useful folk recipes that will reduce the craving for alcohol:
- 4 tbsp.l.Helpers of St. John's wort per 0.5 l.Warm boiling water for half an hour in a water bath, drink two weeks twice a day.
- 2 tbsp.l.Topic pour 1 tbsp.water, boil 15 minutes, strain and drink a tablespoon 6 times a day on a tablespoon.
- 2 tbsp.Washed whole oats fall asleep into a pan and add 3 cups of water.Boil for half an hour, strain, add 100 g.calendula flowers and let stand warm for 12 hours.Strain, drink a glass three times a day.
In addition to the fact that these infusions are useful on their own, they will allow themselves to abandon the habit of drinking alcohol forever.Well, if you like herbal teas, that is, a lot of herbs that soothe the nervous system: St. John's wort, wormwood, calamus, mint - brew and drink for health!