You Can Stop Drinking Now

So your drinking has gotten out of control and you are worried about how alcohol is damaging your life and have become desperate to stop. You’ve been wondering “How Can I Stop Drinking Alcohol?” Here are your options if you have become a problem drinker or have developed an addiction to alcohol.

Chances are like most of us, you have tried many times to stop on your own using you own willpower with limited success, even when you put all the determination and effort you’ve got into it.  And you know that if you don’t stop, if you haven’t already experienced serious repercussions from drinking – they’re just down the road. 

Most problem drinkers wish they could quit drinking on their own.  No one aspires to be an alcoholic.  However, the success rate on quitting on your own is an extremely small percentage, some claim somewhere around 3%. 

If you are serious about putting an end to your drinking and all the suffering that goes along with it, here are your options:

You can attend Alcoholic Anonymous Meetings:

To succeed in AA most alcoholics need to attend at least a few meetings a week. The recommendation of the AA people and/or literature is to attend 90 meetings in 90 days initially.  This works for some people.

You can find a formula that will help you stop drinking on your own:

99% Of the claims that you can stop drinking with certain methods are false claims, written by people who don’t have a drinking problem, let alone know what addiction means, and you can waste a lot of your time and money just to be disappointed with the results.  You can get sober with a method that works if you are careful about the one you select.

You can check yourself into rehab:

You can’t drink in rehab, you have been removed from the environment you were drinking in, and there is extensive therapy/counseling in rehab, which are all pluses. The big challenge comes when you have to return to your old environment without drinking “on the outside”.

You can just accept the fact that you are an alcoholic and try to work around it:

This is the worst option, and the reason it is even mentioned here is some of us give up trying to stop and resort to doing our best to work around this disease.  With this decision most of us are aware that the ongoing drinking will only result in the continuing downward spiral of our lives, health, and happiness.

Most problem drinkers have low self esteem thanks to alcohol, and sometimes feel trying to stop isn’t worth the effort.  But it is worth the effort, because we all deserve a good life.

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