| What is the best way to stop drinking alcohol? I can | | | | action in recovery eventually return to drinking. |
| tell you from experience that the best way is going | | | | One way that you gain support when you stop |
| to be both the safest way, and also the way that is | | | | drinking alcohol is through your peers in recovery. |
| most likely to produce lasting sobriety. For most | | | | These are other people just like yourself who are |
| people, in most situations, that will mean a trip to a | | | | also trying to stop drinking. These people can |
| local treatment center for inpatient treatment. | | | | become your lifeline as you help each other to stay |
| I highly recommend this as a course of action in | | | | sober. We can't do it alone and if we could then it |
| trying to stop drinking because it is far safer than | | | | would not be alcoholism. We need the help and |
| doing it on your own. Alcohol withdrawal is quite | | | | support of others in order to stop. |
| dangerous and can actually kill a person if it is not | | | | If you do happen to go to rehab then you will also |
| properly supervised. Therefore, the best course of | | | | get guidance and advice from a professional |
| action is to ask for help in this area and put yourself | | | | counselor or therapist. These people can help you in |
| under medical supervision. | | | | your recovery efforts as well and help to guide you |
| Going to treatment has other benefits as well. For | | | | towards a good aftercare plan. You have to have a |
| one thing, you are going to be in a relatively safe | | | | plan in place for after you leave treatment so that |
| environment without the constant threat of booze | | | | you do not relapse right away. Those without a solid |
| everywhere. This can make a big different in the first | | | | plan are doomed to drink again. Even having a good |
| few crucial weeks of sobriety. Removing this | | | | plan is no guarantee of success. |
| temptation is critical for the newcomer. Treatment | | | | Basically if you want to stop drinking then you have |
| provides a safe environment. | | | | to take real action and make a new life for yourself. |
| Another benefit to treatment is that you will become | | | | This is neither trivial nor easy. It takes a tremendous |
| educated on how to live a new life. Recovery is | | | | effort in fact, but the payoff is an awesome life in |
| about learning how to live again. If you want to stop | | | | recovery. You can achieve everything you ever |
| drinking then you have to replace your old habits with | | | | wanted out of life if you can find a healthy path in |
| new ones. This involves taking real action on your | | | | sobriety. It all starts by asking for help and taking |
| part. You have to design a new life for yourself. | | | | action. |
| Simply quitting is not enough. Those who do not take | | | | |