Alcohol

[Goring Gull]

Following on from the thread regarding dying form alcohol. If you drink a fair amount nearly every night and have doen so for a while do you really think you could just stop if you had to. I'm not talking about making a choice but if you had to stop for soem reason?

Basically is it a habit you have got into or a bit mor ethan that and hav eto a lesser level have a dependancy on it?

 

[Les Biehn]

Its not the evening pints I can't stop, it's the going down the pub on a Friday and getting shit faced I can't.

 

[Commander]

Yes, I could definitely stop if I had to. I drink a fair amount but if I really had to I could do it. Gave up smoking which is much harder IMHO.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Giving up booze is harder than kicking SMACK, I've heard.

 

[Les Biehn]

Giving up booze is harder than kicking SMACK, I've heard.

So which one are you gonna give up first?

 

[CHAPPERS]

Neither, sniff is first as that hits the pocket hardest. Then I'll get of the phets and then I'll think about smack and drink.

 

[Les Biehn]

Neither, sniff is first as that hits the pocket hardest. Then I'll get of the phets and then I'll think about smack and drink.

Cheppers considering how much you do how the f*** do you hold down a job?

 

[bhaexpress]

I stopped, you just need a good enough reason to.

 

[Napper]

never drink in the week (bar friday lunchtime) , its the sessions at the weekend which are hard for me to stop. Havent tried to be fair and everytime I plan a quite weekend it always ends up getting outta hand somehow.

 

[Les Biehn]

I stopped drinking for 4 weeks in the summer. First time out I got so shit balled I ran away from munkfish while he was trying to put me in a taxi and jumped on the first train home to Wivelsfield. Except I feel asleep and ended up in Balcombe. So tried to get the train back and feel asleep again and ended up in Brighton. This was followed by falling asleep again and ending up in Gatwick. Finally got home 3 hours later.

The moral of this stroy is stopping drinking is bad.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Cheppers considering how much you do how the f*** do you hold down a job?

I don't DO that much of anything. Though my body has a strange ability to recover from heavy weekends easily. Sometimes I surprise even myself.

 

[Les Biehn]

I don't DO that much of anything. Though my body has a strange ability to recover from heavy weekends easily. Sometimes I surprise even myself.

How old are you? I'm 27 and even a weekend on the booze does me in.

 

[CHAPPERS]

25. A couple of months ago I stayed up from Friday morning until 3am monday with about 2 hours sleep on the friday night and made it into work for 10 that day, it was Millwall away thinking about it. I'm not quite sure how and felt a bit dodgy at work but I was fine by Tuesday. I'm sure one day I'll find I can't do it anymore, not sure when that'll be though.

Edit: Plus I do normally have a weekend or two off a month where I dont go out at all.

 

[Albion Dan]

The older you get the longer it takes to recover. I used to recover easily from savage weekenders, consuming vast amounts of alcohol, narcotics, and very little sleep up until I was about 27. Now Im 32 even a heavy night on the beer on a Saturday night is bloody painful until Tuesday, and add anything else into the equation and Im a mess.

Having a 7 month old little boy doesnt help though!!!

 

[Goring Gull]

The older you get the longer it takes to recover. I used to recover easily from savage weekenders, consuming vast amounts of alcohol, narcotics, and very little sleep up until I was about 27. Now Im 32 even a heavy night on the beer on a Saturday night is bloody painful until Tuesday, and add anything else into the equation and Im a mess.

Having a 7 month old little boy doesnt help though!!!

It's the lack of sleep that will do you - when you can't sleep it off because of the little'un.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Yes I could give up, but only really drink at weekends now and don't touch spirits, wine, cider and most beers anymore anyway.

 

[chip]

Following on from the thread regarding dying form alcohol. If you drink a fair amount nearly every night and have doen so for a while do you really think you could just stop if you had to. I'm not talking about making a choice but if you had to stop for soem reason?

Yes, I have. I used to drink regularly but stopped five years ago. I occaisionaly have a drink - the last one was a pint of ale in the Earl of March, Lavant, on 18/02/06 - but never more than a pint. If for some reason you have to stop, you do or you are a fool.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

I have had periods of abstinence (longest was six months) to prove to myself that I could go without booze...Problem was, I genuinely do enjoy the larfs and bonhomie that goes with drinking.

On the other hand when I had marriage problems and left home i turned into a proper soaker, and got really worried...discovered that abstaining from vodka resolved that, although I was definitely on the slippery slope for a while there.

 

[Rookie]

havn't had a drink since mid July not a problem, before that went about a year. Don't see why it is so difficult far too much of a drinking culture in this county

 

[Buzzer]

'cause we're good at it. Sure there are other countries that drink more but no one and I mean NO ONE binge drinks like the British.

We are the world champion binge drinkers. No finer specimen than this fine Southerner: