View Full Version : How to avoid alcohol
anil_25
Dec 4, 2012, 10:40 PM
Sir,
I drink 1 quarter of rum daily. Please tell me how could I avoid this.
Regards
Anil
Wondergirl
Dec 4, 2012, 10:50 PM
Don't do it. Find a constructive activity to do instead.
odinn7
Dec 5, 2012, 06:37 AM
How can you avoid it... hmmm... just don't buy anymore? Simple.
Wondergirl
Dec 5, 2012, 06:49 AM
If you don't have it available, you won't drink it, so do like odinn says and don't buy it and have it around. In the same way, a fat person does not buy cake and cookies and sweets if he wants to lose weight.
tickle
Dec 5, 2012, 07:00 AM
My husband is an alcoholic. Quitting is not an option for him. Quitting is easier said then done but AA gives you the 'tools' to manage quitting and the support necessary to accomplish. Unfortunately an alcoholic is always one.
Tick, I'm curious why quitting isn't an option for your husband. I was under the impression that it's always an option if someone wants to be sober.
tickle
Dec 5, 2012, 08:58 AM
Tick, I'm curious why quitting isn't an option for your husband. I was under the impression that it's always an option if someone wants to be sober.
He doesn't want to quit, it is already a very established crutch for him.
tickle
Dec 5, 2012, 01:42 PM
'Just don't buy it anymore" is funny when there is liquor available on every corner, at every convenience store in the states. Yes, I know, lived there for 7 years. We could buy it at all hours of the night and it was cheap.
However, in Ontario it is regulated to the LCBO stores (liquor control board of ontario) and it is expensive and the hours are monitored and closed on all civic holidays. Now people want that to change to corner stores. But a bill has to be passed in parliament for that to happen.
In Toronto they used to have dry areas,no pubs, no one could get a beer if there life depended on it unless they travelled by horse, buggy or whatnot to get it, That lasted well into the 1950s.
No, we aren't backwards here, just restricted as far as liquor and beer are concerned and I think that is a good idea.
However, in our town we have a small LCBO down by the harbour because the tourists that sail/motor across lake ontario (from the states) in their yachts and dock and stay for the summer in our glorious harbour and pristine beach area, like to walk to their watering hole and walk back to their boat.