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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Good luck to the wagoneers.
Suggested non-alcoholic tipple: orange juice and tonic water, about 60/40. Not too sweet, not too sharp, has a bit of fizz when the tonic water has just been opened.
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THing you have to watch with soft drinks is the sugar and the acid, for rotting your teeth.
Dry January = nonsense. If you like the odd drink, the misery of depriving yourself offsets any health benefits of abstinence IMO.
If on the other hand, you are a piss artist, then no doubt its a good thing.
you're a long time dead, live the life you enjoy, drink or no drink.
It's cheap, instant relaxation and it's legal..
Dry Jan just breaks a cycle of repetition
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I found myself drinking something, couple of beers, sometimes more, most nights, so i stopped drinking during the week, save it fpr the weekend. Yep its tough at first, but then it just becomes part of the routine.
January can be miserable enough as it is, without abstaining from what IMO is one of life's nice things- good beer, good wine, good whisky.
Aah = new baby though! Fantastic news mate. Drinking will have nasty penalties in the first few weeks!! But after that, you will be so knackered, it doesnt make any difference whether you get up at 2am sober or not, you'll still be feeling like a zombie most of the time!!
All joking aside, giving up booze for a month is certainly something that would test my resolve, at first for sure. But once I'd done a month, my immediate thought would be that if I didn't carry it on, it would have been pointless. In for apenny an all that.
Worryingly I can drink as much whisky as i want and not get a hangover...
Noise, randomness, ballistic uncertainty.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
its all a conspiracy to turn us into a country of miserable bastardos.
For example Its like playing russian roulette every day and then stopping for a week - you are still back into risky behaviour.
Long term health wise, a dry January will do nothing at all if you go back to your old drinking habits. Total waste of time and effort.
Unlike the most of You in this thread I used to drink quite a lot. Never seen it as a problem but I could go through bottle of whiskey over two nights, sometimes one night only.
I could not drink for two weeks, then I could have a small glass of wine in the evening. On some.other week I could be drinking every night (mostly at home). I'm 31 and alcohol was always a part of out nights out or meet ups with mates. Since my life these days is consumed mostly by work I don't get to go out much and drink mostly at home.
Not necessarily a New Year solution or Dry January (I didn't even know it's a thing ) but decided to stop drinking for health benefits and to see if I'll miss it. So far - very little temptation. I fancied a drink after first couple days but haven't since. Time will tell...
Oh, and good luck to all dry January participants good luck fellas!
Here's what I mean: alcohol addiction lies on an continuum. I think of it sometimes like a gravitational pull... alcohol tends to pull you back to itself, and making changes to get free of it is like a rocket trying to achieve escape velocity. When you only take a few days break from drinking you don't have long enough to achieve escape velocity... and the alcohol pulls you back.
But with a decent break from it your thinking can change... (alcohol is a psychoactive substance after all). And once you've escaped the gravitational pull of alcohol then things look different. Maybe you don't want to return. But if you do then you'll soon find yourself held by that pull as firmly as ever. Many people will recognise this and that's the bit about what you're saying @Snap which I agree with.
Yet we're all different (living on different sized planets of addiction as it were), and therefore some of us will achieve "escape velocity" much quicker than others. I needed about three months before I started to think differently and so one month's abstinence wouldn't do it for me. But for other people one month will be sufficient to start looking at alcohol differently. For these people a month off drinking won't feel like a total waste of time.