Train your brain for a better healthier life (Alcoholism in General)

Member Name: TimStavert

Product:	Alcoholism in General
Date:	07/09/09 (28 review reads)
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Advantages: You will be richer, healthier and feel better

Disadvantages: You will need a lot of will power and have withdrawal symptoms

I can bore anyone with my time with alcholicism, but I will not on this occassion because I feel it is a sad road for anyone to go down.
Now 56 years and many years ago I put the binge drinking behind me; basically I grew up, realised my responsibilities and moved on to a better and healthier life that I enjoyed.
It took a lot of thinking out and I will be the first to admit I had a few lapses which I was discusted with myself afterwards. I still enjoy one drink a week at the pub and the occassional one at home, when I was sporting 5-8 pints a night in my early twenties.
Smoking about twenty cigarettes a day thirty on a Weekend per day, I was in a state. It maybe small compared with many who would drink a bottle or two of Vodka or whisky but I was in the state of never refusing; I couldn't stop and the DT's were always there the following day.
This is how I did it:
I was sat in the pub one night before my mates came in, and realised over the following months, they were getting girl friends, settling down and they were slowing down and I was beginning to look a "Plonker."
I knew then that I was beginning to feel alone and knew I had to move on.
I met some girls who tried to enforce me to give it up, but that made me annoyed because I wanted to do it my way. They more or less suffocated me and sometimes I just wanted that bit of space.
I met my wife a few years later and we did have a lot of fun, I had some space and I cut down in my own way, even before I proposed to her. Unfortunately that was one night at a party and I was a bit tipsy and she wouldn't believe that i was serious and thought I would forget it the next day, but I didn't and she accepted.
We started saving for our house straight away and afforded the deposit within six months, then saved for our married lives together, we worked as a team and my money meant more towards that than down at the pub.
Three months before we married, I stopped smoking by giving my twenty cigarettes to a work-mate and just said I stopped. I was now fitter although my years of the alcohol took some detoxing I learnt to ween my way off it by changing my objectives and prioritising other important things in life.
If I hadn't had drunken over those years, I wouldn't have needed such a high mortgage or would have had better things in life.

Summary: Mind over Matter for a better sober life.