How do I stop drinking

You may be asking yourself how do I stop drinking, how to stop drinking alcohol every night, or how to stop being drunk? Are you past struggling to control your drinking? Are you fed up of the endless cycle of repeatedly quitting and going back to Day 1? You’re not alone.

Willpower has a 79% chance of failure (average abstinence rate of 21% after a year in 17 studies reviewed by Moyer and Finney (2002) ), and Hester and Miller (2003) found that peer-based 12-step alcohol treatment programs do not have a higher success rate than no treatment at all.

If you are fed up of being fed up of quitting drinking alcohol and you want professional help to know how you can stop drinking alcohol and transform your life, you can find help at the Addiction Help Agency to permanently quit today.

Utilizing Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) which has helped millions successfully quit drinking, Mark Holmes, trained CBT Therapist, YouTube’s Alcohol Quit Guru, wrote the bestselling book, Holmes’s Complete Guide To Stop Drinking Alcohol; The Easy, Mindful and Pain-free Way available here, precisely for people like you in your exact same situation. If they can quit easily and painlessly, why can’t you?

What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?

Dr. Steven M. Melemis M.D., former Medical Inspector for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, writing in the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (88) explains:

“Cognitive therapy is one of the main tools for changing people’s negative thinking and developing healthy coping skills [9,10]. The effectiveness of cognitive therapy in relapse prevention has been confirmed in numerous studies [11].”

“This is a short list of the types of negative thinking that are obstacles to recovery and are topics for cognitive therapy [9]: 1) My problem is because of other people; 2) I don’t think I can handle life without using; 3) Maybe I can just use occasionally; 4) Life won’t be fun — I won’t be fun — without using; 5) I’m worried I will turn into someone I don’t like; 6) I can’t make all the necessary changes; I can’t change my friends; 7) I don’t want to abandon my family; 8) Recovery is too much work; 9) My cravings will be overwhelming; I won’t be able to resist them; 10) If I stop, I’ll only start up again; I have never finished anything; 11) No one has to know if I relapse; and 12) I’m worried I have been so damaged by my addiction that I won’t be able to recover.”

 Think about what it would be like to have no urges or cravings for alcohol. To wake up every day fully rested after a good night’s sleep. Free from the stress of perpetual morning hangovers and having to face work and family feeling terrible each day.

The good news is:

• You can learn how do I stop drinking

• You can stop drinking alcohol every night

• You don’t have to be drunk

I know that may sound hard, or even impossible, to you right now. My name is Mark Holmes. I was a high functioning alcoholic for three decades, you can read my bio in the sidebar opposite, and  I would never have believed I could be happy sober. Anyone can be miserable sober and quit for a day, a week, a month or a year(s) but I honestly believed it was impossible for me to ever be happy sober.

The stereotype that alcoholics are unemployed, homeless and living in street doorways is wrong. In fact, it is more likely for those who are highly paid and well-educated than those without a high school diploma to say they drink, according to Gallup:

“PRINCETON, N.J. — Upper-income and highly educated Americans are more likely than other Americans to say they drink alcohol. Whereas eight in 10 adults in these socio-economic status groups say they drink, only about half of lower-income Americans and those with a high school diploma or less say they drink.”

I have been where you are now. I couldn’t imagine twenty-four hours without drinking alcohol, never mind a weekend or holiday without alcohol. Alcohol was my best friend, my raison d’être, my reward and relief in life. I blog about my reasons for quitting here and you can find my  Crazy Sobriety Vlog on YouTube here. I have been there, bought the mug, bought the T-shirt and I know every excuse you’ve told yourself because I’ve told them all to myself for over three decades until I worked out how to quit permanently using CBT and wrote a book about it.

There comes a point when “enough is enough” and it’s time to grab the bull by the horns, take back the control from alcohol, and commit to the positive action you need to deal with your addiction, like I did finally, after failing to quit time and time again any other way.

So what help can we offer?