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Whats the big deal, Its so easy to give up drink and ciggys.

I give up both at least four times a week.

I became homocidal adn suicidal after a few years of drinking. Been sober almost 20 years (February). My kids have never seen me drink and probably never will.
Im a retired professional.....

nov 2-
15



we are everywhere

Bill W. gets around still...

yep gave it up except for the occassional social stuff (talkin like once every hmmm 6 months to a year lol and only 3 drinks)


successful because if i do drink ..........i will die

i have a bad liver from a bad car accident so killed my alcoholic tendencies ......which is good cause it usually took 2 fifths of JD to even get me a lil buzz

Hi my name's Mary

"but lets not graduate"...
that really would be inviting Disaster.
Was a "One Man,Walking Disaster Area" and not intending to go back there a Day at a Time.

i gave up drinking at 23 because my life had become a total mess and completely un masnageable.I havnt had a drink now for 12 years a day at a time and i keep sober by doing a few simple things on a daily basis. all the best to anyone trying to stop and if at first you dont suceed keep trying.
Best Wishes

Stevie

Yep,he's here too,together with Dr.Bob

I might have a drink once in a blue moon but for the most part yes I have given it up.

The motivation to give up alcohol for me was simple.....hit by drunk driver not once but twice. Not to mention an ex that thought a golf club was a needed part of a drunken rant. he chose the club....I chose life without him.....and alcohol.

Did not drink Alcohol in a looooong time(Aug 73) "A Day At A Time"

Following some simple Steps.

I didn't drink for ten years.. not because *I* had a problem.. (at all). but because of the people around me that did.


Nowadays they are both gone.. so I do whatever whenever I like.. its quite refreshing actually..

Sometimes I MIGHT have a glass hot mulled wine in the evening.. (in the winter)

In the summer my friends come around for lunch in the garden and we might drink some icey vodka and cranberry.

Sometimes my friends come here for dinner and we get ABSOLUTELY hammered playing my (glass) game of Tequila snakes and ladders (wearing tiaras) and playing truth or dare.

Sometimes I might fancy a honey and ginger Martini.. or an apple one.. or raspberry or a durrrty one (a la Sinatra)

On a cold night by the fire SOMETIMES I put Baileys in my coffee.


and sometimes I don't have anything for MONTHS.

Just depends

i gave myself a real kick up the ass when i was in my early 20's. i had very little money but the first thing i always headed for was the drinks isle. i found myself compromising more important things just so i could buy a few beers. worst of all was when i went with the intention of buying beer and realised that my cat needed food and remember weighing up the options of either feeding my cat or buying alcohol. i realised that this shouldn't even be an issue and the mere fact i was making it an issue meant i had a serious problem. suffice to say, i did the right thing and never looked back. god knows where i'd have ended up if it wasn't for that cat

I quit when I discovered I was going to have my son. He was my motivation. I still have a few socially, when I have someone to be social with ..but that I don't see a problem with .

11/27/1982 ODAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!