They tried to make me go to rehab and I said.......Ok then.

[Anny Road]

Stopped drinking a while ago and I’m going to make it stick. Checking in tomorrow for a possible 10 week stint to finally get this monkey off my back. Hopefully it works. No WiFi, gulp.

[Lee909]

All the best with it mate

Hopefully gets you were you need to be

[Mook]

Best of luck & try not to boot fuck out of everyone while you're in there.

[Hades]

Well done on being brave enough to take action to help yourself and your family. Good luck.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

I'd like to say 'Keep us updated,' but you can't. Good luck with it mate, if it doesn't work out you can always drown your sorrows. 

[Anny Road]

Cheers lads. Looking forward to it and shitting myself at the same time.

Still the idea of never having another drink ever again is something I find difficult to get my head around.

[TheHowieLama]

As long as we dont hear from you for a couple of months it is on. Well in pal.

[Bjornebye]

Well done and good luck mate. Nothing but respect for people who can stand up and not just admit to having a problem but go through with dealing with it, or even try. You're a bigger man than most. 

 

Oh and what Mook said. 

[Lee909]

The fact you want to do it is key.

We can deal with a lot of shit to get what we want.

[Anny Road]

The key for me is excepting help and that my coping strategies are fucking shite. 20 odd years I've tried to do it my own way with shitty results. I think that's giving it a fair chance. Time for plan B.

[Strontium]

I can't pretend I know what you are going through. However you have already done the hardest part. All the very best wishes on getting your life back to how you want it to be.

[cloggypop]

I'd say good luck but that's not what is going to make you succeed, it's yourself. Enjoy future sobriety! You will be dead rich with loads of hobby time!

[Anny Road]

Again cheers lads.

You are right about money Cloggy. Drew £200 quid out at New Year and its still in my wallet. Drinking that would not have lasted a weekend.

[Grinch]

There'll be days where you want to pack your bags and run like fuck. Stick with it no matter what. The pay off is huge. A real eye opener.

[Kloppite]

Cheers lads. Looking forward to it and shitting myself at the same time.

Still the idea of never having another drink ever again is something I find difficult to get my head around.

That's the addiction talking in your head I went 12 years without a drink started again then stopped a few years later.

 

I was the same couldn't think of life without a drink 1st time and second time but if your being honest with yourself and actually meaning to quit not drinking will become 2nd nature. You will live your life without alcohol and won't imagine it in your life.

 

The problem I had was not drinking was eventually so easy for me I thought it would be alright for me to start drinking again and I went back to the same person I was before I quit the 1sf time. My only saving grace was the second time I not only knew i had to stop but i knew I could stop and I also knew that whatever pleasures / benefits was giving me I knew that not drinking was a much better alternative.

[Rico1304]

Best of luck.

[Anny Road]

That's the addiction talking in your head I went 12 years without a drink started again then stopped a few years later.

 

I was the same couldn't think of life without a drink 1st time and second time but if your being honest with yourself and actually meaning to quit not drinking will become 2nd nature. You will live your life without alcohol and won't imagine it in your life.

 

The problem I had was not drinking was eventually so easy for me I thought it would be alright for me to start drinking again and I went back to the same person I was before I quit the 1sf time. My only saving grace was the second time I not only knew i had to stop but i knew I could stop and I also knew that whatever pleasures / benefits was giving me I knew that not drinking was a much better alternative.

Absolutely mate.

I've tried the sensible 'normal' approach having a glass of wine with my tea. It's ok for a few days but soon becomes 2 bottles and then fuck the wine I may as well have a vodka and blam.

[TheHowieLama]

Yea - I love a vodka and blam. And a tequila and blam even more...

 

Eh...

[Anubis]

Good luck, Anny.

[Kloppite]

Absolutely mate.

I've tried the sensible 'normal' approach having a glass of wine with my tea. It's ok for a few days but soon becomes 2 bottles and then fuck the wine I may as well have a vodka and blam.

2nd time after being a nightmare my 1st time people would just tell me to drink just once a week which I could do but it was the other 9 times out of 10 that where the problem. My drinking was just as bad 2nd time around with the only difference being I would have many more sobre days. I had to get people(close family) to stop encouraging me of telling me it was alright for me to drink even if they couldn't see my problem and to not enable me and support me in quitting drinking. If someone was telling me it's alright for me to drink I was drinking as I explained before I had to get them to stop it.

[Kevin D]

Nobody is bigger than the pub.

[Anny Road]

I was the opposite. Hiding it and sneaking 1/2 bottles down in a couple of mouthfuls. Family would see a couple of glasses of wine thinking I was OK oblivious to the secret stash I had hidden. That's not good but at the time I felt I was winning. Terrible affliction booze.

[TheHowieLama]

Yea, big monkey. Made worse by the fact that it is omnipresent in every single "good time" from Holidays with the family to weekenders w friends.

 

Quit a lifelong 420 pretty easily a few years back - now this.

[Anny Road]

Nobody is bigger than the pub.

Haven't drank in a pub for years. Last time I went I ordered a whisky and looked at it as I handed over the 3 quid or whatever and thought what the Fuck is that. It barely covers the bottom of the glass. When you are used to pouring spirits in 1/2 pint measures the pub is shit.

[Kloppite]

I was the opposite. Hiding it and sneaking 1/2 bottles down in a couple of mouthfuls. Family would see a couple of glasses of wine thinking I was OK oblivious to the secret stash I had hidden. That's not good but at the time I felt I was winning. Terrible affliction booze.

Booze is a terrible affliction. I am not anti alcohol because i know not everyone has a drink problem it was me who had / has the drink problem and I choose not to drink because I am happier and better off financially and in general with out it.

 

The thing I did do was after a few beers I would want something stronger to get off my head and would end up on the coke which I was worse on than when I drank 1st time around. I think the reason for this was because my circle of friends had become smaller with a higher concentration of dealers.