re: Quitting alcohol?

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just wondering what it's like to be a sober baw these days and is it worth it?

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frick that.

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Alright, nukka. No obligation. Chill.

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How often do you refer to ppl as "nukka?"

*Too many is the correct answer

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Lazy But Talented

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This is precisely what you do. You buy two 1.75L bottles on Monday, then two more 1.75s plus a pint on Thursday. Like clockwork for several years. The extra pint is the cushion, because the idea that you might run into an empty bottle is unthinkable.

By the time you're at that point, there aren't really hangovers any more. You just feel like shite 100% of the time and your body is a wreck.

You still function. You get up and go to work every day, usually still drunk. You'd give anything to be able to just drink yourself to sleep at night, but no matter how drunk you are, you can't sleep more than an hour or two at a time. So you get out of bed and drink another half pint or so straight from the bottle, just to get up an hour or two later and do it again. All night. Every night.

Then you give it up (almost) cold turkey because you know it's going to kill you, and the crash of withdrawal is worse than anything the drinking ever did, and it leaves you hospitalized, near death.

So you never drink again. And if you're lucky, life is pretty good.

But yeah, the point is, if you're an alcoholic, you pretty much know exactly how much you need.

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remarkably good explanation

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drinking a twelve pack a day for fifteen years plus

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I work on my own farm

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I didn't know farming was so lucrative these days.

People are stupid as frick if they think they are actually happy living like this or not putting their families through hell. Shame. And this is coming from a former absolute junkie

I stopped in my 30s. Now if I have a drink at a party I take about two sips and I'm done with it.

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remarkably good explanation

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You can only write if you "been there" and you can agree if "you've been there" as well. The Gift Of Desperation is sometimes the only thing that will help get out of the dark conundrum powerlessness despair and hopelessness.

I'm not certain he should quit cold turkey. Might he have to worry about delirium tremens. If he get the shakes after a few hours if abstinence, it's a bad sign. It's seems better for him to ween off slowly over a couple weeks. Or go to a detox.

Worst I ever got was getting black out drunk or close to m-th right after starting my first job post college.

My wtf moment was waking up drunk on a tuesday, seeing an empty makers bottle on the floor.

So glad I stopped that