I want to hear your stories/ research on the topic.
So far based on my research Neuro-Electric Therapy (NET) and Ibogaine seem to be promising.
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8 hours ago4 points(+0/-0/+4Score on mirror)1 child
I drank far too much in my youth.
My first-hand experience made me appreciate how powerful and addictive routine habit is.
Rather than miracle cures, I think it's essential to understand how habits work and how long it takes to end bad habits and replace them with something healthy.
I believe most people overestimate the chemical addiction aspect of alcoholism while severely underestimating the power of habit / routine because they confuse the two.
Here's what I learned and how I stopped:
1. Don't stress yourself with quitting-forever nonsense. Don't think about getting sober like the death of an old friend. Tell yourself that you don't need one last large drunken party send-off to say goodbye forever. Instead, acknowledge that you'll have the power to have a drink whenever you like without feeling stress, but you probably won't want to once you're happier and healthier.
2. Routine is one of the biggest issues. Your brain loves routine even if it's harmful. It will bug you every 30 seconds if you try to do something different. This will slowly fade over time but it will take at least a month or two to diminish completely. Calculate how much you drink (be honest) and cut it back 5% each day. You can cheat all you want by not eating food to make the alcohol more effective, just ensure you strictly cut back 5% each day / night. It'll take you 20 days to complete the process. Rather than rushing the process, the 20 days also allows your blood chemistry to adapt to alcohol withdrawals slowly, minimizing harsh side-effects of trembling, sweating, insomnia, irritability, depression, fatigue and nausea.
3. If you're mostly drinking at night, you'll need something productive and distracting to keep you occupied instead of getting plastered. Try to find something healthy that doesn't involve other vices like porn or overeating or just watching goyslop TV.
4. I had trouble sleeping without drink. This is uncomfortable advice but it helped me: I bought some over the counter / non-prescription sleeping pills to help with the transition. 1/2 a pill was enough when I needed it. I later found Magnesium Glycinate also helps me sleep. Try to only take half a pill when necessary. I used to drink heavily at night. While sobering up over the 20 day period and a during the following month, I admit to taking half a sleeping pill when I knew I'd otherwise fail. It replaced the urge to drive to a bottle shop and get super-drunk with the urge to sleep. It feels like bad advice but it was the better of two evils and it was effective.
5. Once you're sober, even a year or two after, understand that old habits die hard. Having one drink with workmates on a Friday afternoon is great, but think long and hard about getting plastered to celebrate an event like a birthday because you might decide to finish off the bottle the following night and before you know it, you're making excuses for a week long binge and then you're back where you started. Your old habit which you worked hard to shed will take days to become you new routine because your brain remembers how things used to be. It's an easy trap to fall into.
6 hours ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
> how powerful and addictive routine habit is.
This applies to many things universally. If you want to change something about yourself, your health, weight, addictions, behaviors, you have to change your habits, possibly even your social circles.
It is not about doing something for 'n' days, you reach the goal, and hooray it's over. If you want to stay fit, you'll have to permanently do things that contribute to fitness. If you want to change your weight, you need to change your diet permanently *without returning* to the origin state.
And if there is something you want to change, but are not willing to change your habits permanently, then it's just temporary and will fall back.
Habits are the things you do repeatedly. You need to stop doing the bad things again and again and again - it's that simple. But we all *know* it's that simple conceptually, the difficulty is doing it.
You will not get around having to muster up willpower and determination for it. You *must* want to do it and seek to do the new habits. But do it in a way where it's sustainable - you don't need to go 0 to 100 immediately. If you make it too unpleasant for you, it becomes harder. And if it's too hard, you may stop. If you stop, you go back to 0.
Do not muster up a burst of energy to do it and then stop once you reached your goal. That's not how it works.
My first-hand experience made me appreciate how powerful and addictive routine habit is.
Rather than miracle cures, I think it's essential to understand how habits work and how long it takes to end bad habits and replace them with something healthy.
I believe most people overestimate the chemical addiction aspect of alcoholism while severely underestimating the power of habit / routine because they confuse the two.
Here's what I learned and how I stopped:
1. Don't stress yourself with quitting-forever nonsense. Don't think about getting sober like the death of an old friend. Tell yourself that you don't need one last large drunken party send-off to say goodbye forever. Instead, acknowledge that you'll have the power to have a drink whenever you like without feeling stress, but you probably won't want to once you're happier and healthier.
2. Routine is one of the biggest issues. Your brain loves routine even if it's harmful. It will bug you every 30 seconds if you try to do something different. This will slowly fade over time but it will take at least a month or two to diminish completely. Calculate how much you drink (be honest) and cut it back 5% each day. You can cheat all you want by not eating food to make the alcohol more effective, just ensure you strictly cut back 5% each day / night. It'll take you 20 days to complete the process. Rather than rushing the process, the 20 days also allows your blood chemistry to adapt to alcohol withdrawals slowly, minimizing harsh side-effects of trembling, sweating, insomnia, irritability, depression, fatigue and nausea.
3. If you're mostly drinking at night, you'll need something productive and distracting to keep you occupied instead of getting plastered. Try to find something healthy that doesn't involve other vices like porn or overeating or just watching goyslop TV.
4. I had trouble sleeping without drink. This is uncomfortable advice but it helped me: I bought some over the counter / non-prescription sleeping pills to help with the transition. 1/2 a pill was enough when I needed it. I later found Magnesium Glycinate also helps me sleep. Try to only take half a pill when necessary. I used to drink heavily at night. While sobering up over the 20 day period and a during the following month, I admit to taking half a sleeping pill when I knew I'd otherwise fail. It replaced the urge to drive to a bottle shop and get super-drunk with the urge to sleep. It feels like bad advice but it was the better of two evils and it was effective.
5. Once you're sober, even a year or two after, understand that old habits die hard. Having one drink with workmates on a Friday afternoon is great, but think long and hard about getting plastered to celebrate an event like a birthday because you might decide to finish off the bottle the following night and before you know it, you're making excuses for a week long binge and then you're back where you started. Your old habit which you worked hard to shed will take days to become you new routine because your brain remembers how things used to be. It's an easy trap to fall into.
This applies to many things universally. If you want to change something about yourself, your health, weight, addictions, behaviors, you have to change your habits, possibly even your social circles.
It is not about doing something for 'n' days, you reach the goal, and hooray it's over. If you want to stay fit, you'll have to permanently do things that contribute to fitness. If you want to change your weight, you need to change your diet permanently *without returning* to the origin state.
And if there is something you want to change, but are not willing to change your habits permanently, then it's just temporary and will fall back.
Habits are the things you do repeatedly. You need to stop doing the bad things again and again and again - it's that simple. But we all *know* it's that simple conceptually, the difficulty is doing it.
You will not get around having to muster up willpower and determination for it. You *must* want to do it and seek to do the new habits. But do it in a way where it's sustainable - you don't need to go 0 to 100 immediately. If you make it too unpleasant for you, it becomes harder. And if it's too hard, you may stop. If you stop, you go back to 0.
Do not muster up a burst of energy to do it and then stop once you reached your goal. That's not how it works.
That's how habits start and how everyone's brains work.