How to Give Up Alcohol
To drink or not to drink—that is the question. Thinking on how to give up alcohol is a task and no one can contest that. A thing is considered a task if it doesn’t conform to a person’s will or that person has just been assigned or forced to do it; this true about giving up alcohol.
I think it is but right to say that if a person is not yet a confessed alcoholic, meaning it is either he has just started becoming a user or consider himself an occasional excessive drinker, things can be made easier asking him to quit.
I have my own classification of alcoholic drinkers:
A starter, as mentioned above, is one who is just beginning to have his first taste of alcohol and does this whenever he gets to socialize with peers. This type is the one who drinks with a group just for the sake of camaraderie.
An occasional drinker is one who drinks obviously on occasion. This could be with friends and associates, family gatherings, parties, to name a few events.
An alcoholic is one person who cannot live a day without drinking liquor. This type has the maximum number of bottles consumed in one occasion or event. It is not easy to stop this person. Telling him to quit would aggravate the situation. An alcoholic cannot stop. Alcohol is his life and the content of his bloodstream.
I am, myself, one of this liquid substance users but I can’t really consider myself as an abuser. I drink at times but not that regularly. My friends cannot force me to have a taste if I don’t want to. Having liquor in my system makes me weak and slow; weak in the sense that I would feel numb and couldn’t feel the energy emanating from my body, and slow, in a way that I seem to be floating on air as I walk.
It is apparent that drinking can cause some differences in the way a normal person acts and thinks. A person cannot think right when under the influence as well as do things correctly. There seems to be a mistake in whatever step is taken. Thinking of how to give up alcohol is the way to make things right. And one can do this with the proper guidance of friends, relatives and professional help.
Abusers are the ones that would find it hard to bear the feeling of no-alcohol intake in a day. This is because they are already hooked on it. Careful whispers can help in changing their ways. Since these people are most likely deviant in nature, it is not appropriate to talk them out of it when in the presence of other people. They will tend to move away or evade those who keep on asking them to do so. Better catch them in their most unguarded moments; sober and alone—and that would be the perfect time for you to lay down your cards that you are there for him, to help.
They can be guided as far as research has shown. Using words that are positive could goad him to think of what his real problem is. Mentioning the word ‘help’ might drive him away, but try using the phrase ‘I understand” and you get good results. One thing more, do not try to push hard as he might think that he’s being tasked to do so. You might get the biggest surprise of your life when one day he’ll come knocking at your door and say: I have been thinking of how to give up alcohol and the first person I remembered to go to is you.
