You Can Stop Drinking Now

You ask yourself - Why can’t I stop drinking? The answer is, you can’t stop drinking because you have developed an addiction to alcohol. When you have an addiction to alcohol, you are no longer calling the shots. Alcohol is the new boss.

When you first started drinking, you associated having a few drinks with good times with your friends. But for those of us who have that special alcoholic mechanism in our brain, eventually the good time drinking is going to turn into constant, nightmare drinking. You are in a pattern of literally drinking against your will.

The Webster’s definition of addiction is:

A compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal; broadly : persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be harmful.

So the hallmark symptom of addiction is compulsion. You have the mental and physical compulsion to drink, and this compulsion overrides your intellect, reason, self-discipline, and will. You have lost control over the situation. The drinking is now controlling you.

Very few alcoholics are able to stop drinking without some kind of help. As anyone with an alcohol addiction knows, even when you rally all of your inner resources and make a genuine and firm decision to stop drinking, it is just a matter of time before you pick up again. Addiction is really another word for bondage.

Your addiction ties you to alcohol. You start thinking about drinking very early in your day. If you have alcohol in the house it calls your name. If you run out you will do everything in your power to get that next drink. Does this sound familiar? This is the reason you can’t stop drinking alcohol.

- Samantha J.