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giving up drinking help

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Kez82
Kez82

Hi I'm 32 and a mother of 3. I'm wanting to give up drinking but fail everytime. We have a very sociable lifestyle so when it gets round to the weekends I always end up having wine. Problem I also have is I don't know when to stop. I have noticed I am putting on weight too. I just really want to stop drinking.

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  • Robin2015
    Robin2015 Kez82

    Posted

    HI Kerrie. YOu have a busy lifestyle and will probably find it hard to stop drinking just suddenly. IT depends on how much you drink over the weekend and how it affects you as a mother. Is everything ok or will it perhaps get wrose IF you carry on drinking more and more...perhaps...just wondering and not yet assuming anything. Up to you to decide what is best
  • keith02
    keith02 Kez82

    Posted

    Hi Kerrie, read some of the posts on here about Selincro (nalmafene) or naltrexone (which I'm using), it could be something that helps you. It blocks the reward you get from drinking so you can have one or two rather than not being able to stop. You take it about an hour before going out and it works a treat. I used to have one or two sips of my first drink and already be thinking about getting the next one (and the one after and the one after that :-) ) I've now managed to cut down from 6ish pints a night to 2.

    If I have a night out, I don't feel like I want to drink like I did before so I drink slower and sometimes I order an alcohol-free beer and put it in a pint glass so nobody suspects you're trying to cut down :-) Or you could tell friends you're doing a diet to get in shape and you're cutting down on drink because of the calories...

    Good luck

    • keith02
      keith02

      Posted

      Correction: you're supposed to take it 90 minutes to 2 hours before drinking :-) 
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