Do you find that whenever you have easy access to alcohol – you feel that deep down urge to drink?
Do you find that whenever you feel that familiar urge to drink alcohol, you can’t help it, you just drink it?
That used to be a problem for me, and worse, the thought of not having alcohol in the house used to fill me with dread, negative emotions, and feelings of loss and deprivation. So if I felt a sense of loss for something that wasn’t there, I felt compelled to go and buy something to drink, so that I could feel better. Once I knew that there was alcohol in the house, sure, I did feel better for a short while. But before long, the sense of feeling better was no longer good enough, and when that familiar urge to drink set in, I just couldn’t seem to feel better unless I actually drank some alcohol. Then I would have to go and buy some more alcohol to keep in the house for next time. And again and again. Alcohol is a vicious cycle, and once you get stuck in a cycle of drinking too much, it is very difficult to break the bad habit that alcohol causes. So how to stop drinking?
One way is to never have alcohol in the house ever again.
There – I said it, but how does that make you feel? Does that stir your negative emotions, make you want to click off the page? Maybe it causes you a momentary panic, or a feeling of loss or withdrawal? Does that make you think that is it something impossible that you don’t have the willpower to achieve? Does that just turn you off my message?
I understand your reluctance, because that was the way I used to feel about it. And I can honestly say that using will power alone was not strong enough to help me to stop drinking alcohol, nor to help resisting the urge to drink.
So let’s start gradually!
If you want to keep drinking alcohol, then that is okay. If you recognize that you are drinking too much, and you want to learn how to not drink alcohol, then that is excellent.
If you have tried to cut back on alcohol, and you find that you can achieve that for a while, but sooner or later you find that alcohol is a vicious cycle that just keeps finding its way back into your life, then I totally understand how that happens and I sympathize with you, because that’s how it was for me too.
Now I won’t try to force you to do something that you don’t want to do, and you should never try to force yourself to stop drinking by penalizing yourself, or depriving yourself, or punishing yourself. These techniques will certainly work in the short term, because you are using your conscience to build guilt around the behaviors that you are not happy with, and while it is certainly true that we feel guilty, the will to stop drinking alcohol will only last as long as the memory of the guilt. Yes, unfortunately, the will to stop is based around will power, and the problem with using “will power” is that it can be defeated by “won’t power”!
Is Your Will Power Strong Enough to Beat the Urge to Drink?
When you recognize that drinking too much alcohol is ruining your life, or preventing you from reaching some of your ambitions and goals in life, or when your guilty conscience rises above your urge to drink to alcohol, then this is an important step in how to stop drinking alcohol.
However, all of these feelings of good intent are actually based on depriving the pleasure centers of your brain from the emotional high that is received from the dopamine release triggered by drinking alcohol. Sooner or later, no matter how bad the original guilty feelings, your will power may hit a set back, or if a past trigger sets off an unintentional urge to drink just one glass of alcohol, then suddenly all of the vast reserves of will power that you were relying on to avoid drinking alcohol can be instantly overcome by your emotional and psychological triggers, and you find yourself slipping back into old habits, because alcohol is a vicious cycle.
Will Power is just not strong enough to beat “won’t power”.
How to Stop Drinking – It’s easier to quit alcohol completely
Still Want to Drink? Do you still feel the urge to drink alcohol?
If you are not ready to commit to quitting alcohol or if you think it is okay to just have the occasional drink, then you have to be honest with yourself – is drinking really making you happy? Do you drink too much alcohol? Do you drink alcohol every night? Would you like to know how to quit drinking on your own?
If you answer yes to these questions and want to know how to stop drinking too much, there is a much better way to quit alcohol completely, and we can show you the easiest way to quit drinking – Click here to find out how.