Hi modders!
I've read a lot here, but this is my first post on this particular board. Maybe I'll join the monthly thread when it turns over on Monday.
I'd be interested to talk to anyone else about the idea of tapering down, rather than picking a day to quit and just doing it. I have a few reasons for trying it this way, and one is withdrawal - my reading tells me that I would be in for some serious health issues based on my history. I'm also interested in evolving new habits, behaviours, and thinking patterns, if that makes sense. Drinking is so tied up with what I do after about 5 pm (beer while making dinner, beer while playing Scrabble, wine with dinner, wine until bedtime....). I feel if I just take it away all of a sudden, I will be setting myself up for failure. This way I can practice putting it off later and later, drinking slower and slower, waiting between drinks longer and longer. And while that happens, I can be substituting activities that I'd honestly rather be doing: hobbies, public speaking events, important documentaries at the rep theatre. You, know, all the things you can't do because you're too busy drinking! My idea is to gradually make NOT drinking a way better, more interesting thing than drinking. It's been a little over a week, and I've cut back quite a lot, I'm ahead of schedule, actually.
Any thoughts, suggestions, experiences? Greatly appreciated. BTW: I am aware that this whole thing could be a trap my booze-soaked brain is setting in order to keep me feeding it AL. Thoughts about that would be valuable too.
Thanks all!
I've read a lot here, but this is my first post on this particular board. Maybe I'll join the monthly thread when it turns over on Monday.
I'd be interested to talk to anyone else about the idea of tapering down, rather than picking a day to quit and just doing it. I have a few reasons for trying it this way, and one is withdrawal - my reading tells me that I would be in for some serious health issues based on my history. I'm also interested in evolving new habits, behaviours, and thinking patterns, if that makes sense. Drinking is so tied up with what I do after about 5 pm (beer while making dinner, beer while playing Scrabble, wine with dinner, wine until bedtime....). I feel if I just take it away all of a sudden, I will be setting myself up for failure. This way I can practice putting it off later and later, drinking slower and slower, waiting between drinks longer and longer. And while that happens, I can be substituting activities that I'd honestly rather be doing: hobbies, public speaking events, important documentaries at the rep theatre. You, know, all the things you can't do because you're too busy drinking! My idea is to gradually make NOT drinking a way better, more interesting thing than drinking. It's been a little over a week, and I've cut back quite a lot, I'm ahead of schedule, actually.
Any thoughts, suggestions, experiences? Greatly appreciated. BTW: I am aware that this whole thing could be a trap my booze-soaked brain is setting in order to keep me feeding it AL. Thoughts about that would be valuable too.
Thanks all!
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