When I started drinking alcohol I never thought my new and exciting habit would become the source of so much distress and inner discontent. I would try hard to quit but always saw myself downing yet another beer in a state of dumb drunkenness. But owing to my determination and battle scars I was able to control my drinking habits.

What I consider to be the turning point in my life was when I parted ways with the friends I had been living with for 6 months. Whilst in the company of these friends we would drink all our money away and having nothing left to buy breakfast and supper the ext day. What I noticed to be great deal of help was the separation. It is useless trying to quit alcohol if you still share close company with people who will only fuel the addiction.

With friends of the alcoholic nature you will never be able to see what is wrong with you because you are all alike and nothing seems out of place. But Staying alone will give you a disgusting view of what you were going to become if you hadn’t quit. I must admit, such an image is scary.

There is no real point in trying to quit alcohol when you don’t have anything to replace it with. This is about finding an alternative activity to replace your alcohol addiction so that you have your thoughts occupied. What I did was buff up the entertainment in my flat by getting video and board games as well as a left handed electric guitar. So when I thought of drinking I would drink at home and I would not even think about abusing alcohol, it was fun.

What can happen is that you will be abusing alcohol not that it tastes so good but because there is something you’re missing in your life. In other cases it can mean that you’re depressed about something. Whatever it is you must be sure to get rid of the triggering agent because that is what keeps you drinking. Arranging your life is like sorting clothes in home storage shelves.

When you have an alcohol addiction it is normal for a person to sacrifice something very important in their life because they want to have more money to spend on alcohol. In a lot of the cases food is sacrificed and the worst of foods re eaten when all money has been spent on alcohol. But in actual fact eating food will give you a feeling that will overwhelm you so much that you will actually appreciate food to the point of investing in the right types of food to keep you healthy.

Alcohol addiction can be overcome if you put your mind to it. Just tell yourself you want it more than anything else and you will get over your addiction in no time, it will be more like sucking it out with a dyson upright vacuum cleaner.