04-08-2014, 08:34 AM
I won't go saying I drink much - because I don't... I barely drink, I think I've had a few too many nights which has caused me to actually dislike the taste of alcohol.
My work colleagues do like a drink, but I've never found it hard to go down to the pub and just drink coke/water/whatever - I don't think NOT going to the pub is a good thing, it makes you want to drink more, but go down to the pub and just don't drink - have one and spend the rest of the evening drinking something else... If you're anything like me, you'll realise the alcohol isn't what you were after, it's the social aspect that you actually enjoy. IMHO the only way to do it is to associate the pub NOT with alcohol - I know for a lot of people being social = drinking alcohol = good times = when I'm down drink alcohol because alcohol = good times - if you get me... Once you break that idea that the only good times involve alcohol, I think it'll probably begin to fall into place.
If your mates give you the "fecking poof, get a beer down you" - just tell them to knob off, if they can't understand why you don't want to drink anymore, maybe question why they're friends in the first place... Unless you really are that un-likeable when sober...
It's probably easy for me to say this, I'm the biggest lightweight going - I'm 6'6 and can barely handle 3 pints without feeling tipsy. Ask anyone who's experienced one of my hangovers - they write me off for 2 days normally if I've been on a bender - went out in Falmouth when I was down at home last and wrote off the next two days due to me being so ill. I barely drink now, at max I'll have one bottle of queer cider a week or so, that's fine for me.
My work colleagues do like a drink, but I've never found it hard to go down to the pub and just drink coke/water/whatever - I don't think NOT going to the pub is a good thing, it makes you want to drink more, but go down to the pub and just don't drink - have one and spend the rest of the evening drinking something else... If you're anything like me, you'll realise the alcohol isn't what you were after, it's the social aspect that you actually enjoy. IMHO the only way to do it is to associate the pub NOT with alcohol - I know for a lot of people being social = drinking alcohol = good times = when I'm down drink alcohol because alcohol = good times - if you get me... Once you break that idea that the only good times involve alcohol, I think it'll probably begin to fall into place.
If your mates give you the "fecking poof, get a beer down you" - just tell them to knob off, if they can't understand why you don't want to drink anymore, maybe question why they're friends in the first place... Unless you really are that un-likeable when sober...
It's probably easy for me to say this, I'm the biggest lightweight going - I'm 6'6 and can barely handle 3 pints without feeling tipsy. Ask anyone who's experienced one of my hangovers - they write me off for 2 days normally if I've been on a bender - went out in Falmouth when I was down at home last and wrote off the next two days due to me being so ill. I barely drink now, at max I'll have one bottle of queer cider a week or so, that's fine for me.
