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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

So You Want to Quit Drinking Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Reasons to Quit Drinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Benefits of Giving up Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Tips to Help You Quit Drinking Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Message from the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

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Hello!

Thank you for your interest in the ebook, Why Give Up Alcohol?.
In this ebook, we have compiled the best information from our articles and
posts on giving up alcohol. This collection discusses many of the reasons
people decide to stop drinking, and the benefits you will reap by giving up
alcohol.
We have also given you tips and strategies for how to stop drinking
without expensive counseling or 12-step programs. On the following pages
you will find the collective wisdom of the author, Rahul Nag, and many
others he has consulted with and learned from over the years. You can read
more about Rahul on the last page of this ebook.
Finally, you will learn about our program, the Give Up Alcohol Course.
This is a course that you can take in the comfort of your own home. By
taking the course you will understand more about your current drinking
patterns, figure out what you want to do about your drinking, learn
strategies to change your drinking and explore deeper related issues.
Happy reading – if you have questions or comments visit the website
above, or email info@alcoholfreesociallife.com.

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So You Want to Quit Drinking Alcohol. . .
If you have reached the point where you want to quit drinking alcohol there is a lot of
opportunity to do just this. There are people, websites, organizations, support groups
and others that can help you.
The first question
Ask yourself why you want to quit drinking alcohol?
Is it just a temporary thing because you have been drinking heavily recently? Or is it a
long-term goal you have? What will you gain by quitting?
This question is important so that you can feel motivated and encouraged. When you
think about the answers to these questions, they must make you feel emotionally
moved and energized. Emotion is a key element of decision-making and taking action.
Without a strong understanding of why you want to quit, it could be hard to do this.
Take a bit of time to think this through.
If you are on the edge of making a decision, start by listing and reliving some of the
negative impacts that alcohol has had on you. Then, work out a plan to make the
necessary changes to quit.
Also consider if you want to quit drinking forever, for a specific period (a month or
six months) or for a particular goal e.g. because you are planning your wedding or
doing a marathon, triathlon, etc.
Steps To Quit Drinking Alcohol
Once you are secure in your decision to quit alcohol, the next thing is to make a plan.
The first step is to see your doctor. You must get their input; it could be physically
dangerous for you to suddenly quit drinking if you have been drinking heavily for a
long time. You may need to gradually reduce your drinking rather than giving up in
one go. Your doctor can advise you and may be able to suggest medication to take to
help you.
With your doctor’s input, the next step is to decide how to stop drinking. One of the
absolute key things is the environment. This includes people, place and things. Say
you have been going to the same bar after work for years and drinking heavily there.
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If you go back and say you are no longer drinking, there could be heavy peer pressure,
not to mention sheer force of habit which could drag you in.
This means you will almost certainly need to look at a new way of doing things – new
people, places and activities. Even just going home every evening may be difficult if
that is where you drink heavily. You will need to look at and change your routine.
Another step that can be helpful is keeping a diary or journal to record where you
drank, how much and who with. If you can reflect on what happened each day, it will
help you plan in advance and avoid situations that are difficult for you.
Drinking Slips
You may find that you lapse on a particular day or days. This is a normal part of the
process, so keep your eyes focused on the long term goal and keep going!
You can also use any slips as a learning experience. Why did you slip? By looking back
at your day, you might find there was something specific you hadn’t considered that
caused you to drink.
Think of what else you can do instead of drinking. Is there a hobby or passion you
haven’t done in a while? Maybe you can spend time doing that instead of drinking.
Finally, you can factor in ‘rewards’ for cutting down or quitting successfully for a
period of time. Think of things you enjoyed doing in the past and plan to do
something special to celebrate your success.

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Reasons to Quit Drinking
If you enjoy drinking alcohol, giving it up may seem like a daunting task. But quitting
drinking has many benefits—and all of them are hangover-free!
Whether you are a problem drinker or someone who has the ability to drink
responsibly, saying no to alcohol will lead to marked improvement in three important
aspects of your life: physical health, emotional/psychological health and relationships
(personal and professional).
Quit Drinking: Improved Physical Health
Alcohol, particularly in large quantities, is not good for your body. When you drink,
you tax your liver, raise your blood sugar levels and dehydrate your body. While these
side-effects go away once the alcohol has cleared your system, over a long period of
time habitual drinking can lead to the development of the following health conditions:
 Hyperglycemia
 Heart Disease
 Liver Disease
 Obesity
 Kidney Disease
The above are just a few of the most serious health issues associated with problem
drinking. If you want to avoid these conditions and live a life that is physically
healthy—a life that allows you to feel good in your body—then giving up alcohol will
set you on the right path to achieving this goal.
Quit Drinking: Improved Psychological/Emotional Health
Alcohol is harmful to more than just your physical body. If consumed in large
quantities, alcohol can wreak havoc on your psychological/emotional state of mind.
Ever been to a party where the hostess was so drunk that she started crying in front
of everyone on the living room floor? Ever seen a violent bar fight? These situations
are examples of alcohol taking over a drinker’s psyche.

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Drinking has many negative psycho/emotional side-effects. Alcohol impairs your
sense of balance and memory. It lowers your inhibitions and numbs your emotions.
For some people, it leads to poor decision making and risk taking, for others
aggression and rage. For a certain group of drinkers—problem drinkers—it can lead
to alcohol psychosis.
Alcohol psychosis occurs when a drinker loses touch with reality. It is not the same as
merely being drunk—alcohol psychosis causes the drinker to feel anxious and
threatened. The drinker sometimes hallucinates and can even experience a full
psychotic breakdown.
Most people who drink do not experience alcohol psychosis, but anyone who suffers
from mental health issues or other emotional disturbances runs the risk of a psychotic
episode when they drink. Thus, keeping away from alcohol is a good strategy to stay
mentally and emotionally healthy.
Quit Drinking: Improved Personal and Professional Relationships
If you slow down the pace at which you drink, you’ll find it much easier to drink less
over the course of a night. Try having a non-alcoholic alternative – a glass of water,
some juice, a soda or even a cup of coffee – between each alcoholic drink to make it
easier to control your intake.
As well as helping you to cut down on your drinking, including non-alcoholic options
has the added benefit of rehydrating your body. This can lessen the effects of any
unpleasant hangovers the next morning.
Quit Drinking: Get Support from Friends and Family
If possible, let the people close to you know about your attempts to control your
drinking. Then, if you’re feeling the urge to drink too much and give up on your new
lifestyle, you can get support from them to overcome the feeling. Talk to your doctor
about your plans, as well. He or she can advise you on the best way to deal with any
alcohol cravings that you may experience.
Learning how to control your drinking can be hard work, but it’s always worth it in
the end. By following the advice above, and you’ll see that taking small steps can have
a huge effect on the amount of alcohol that you’re consuming.
Take a look at the Give Up Alcohol Course to find out more.

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Benefits of Giving Up Alcohol

You may have heard that having a few drinks is fine. For most people a glass of wine
or a beer now and again is perfectly fine. Specifically, red wine contains antioxidants
which are beneficial to your health. The problem with alcohol is that many
individuals simply can’t stop at one or two drinks; they continue to consume alcohol
well past any health benefits of a glass of wine.
When Alcohol is Too Much
The typical backyard party involves the consumption of many glasses of beer or entire
bottles of wine. This copious consumption destroys any health benefits from alcohol
and starts to cause real harm to the body. When you consume large quantities of
alcohol it harms all the organs of the body and depresses the nervous system.
The liver is only able to process a small amount of alcohol at one time. A small glass
of red wine with a meal would be fine, but once you start drinking several glasses your
liver becomes overwhelmed. As you keep drinking your body starts to lose function
and you become seriously impaired. If you drive a vehicle you become a serious
danger to yourself and others on the road.
Benefits of Quitting Drinking
Those who drink too much may experience many benefits once they quit drinking
 Improved Health – Once you quit drinking your health will improve. You’ll no
longer be taxing your liver with too much alcohol and you’ll decrease your
chances of developing alcohol related diseases such as cirrhosis of the liver or
heart problems. If you adopt a healthy diet and exercise, you can lose the
weight you have been carrying around from all that drinking.
 More Income – Alcohol is expensive and it can deplete your finances in short
order. If you quit drinking you’ll have more income to do fun things besides
drinking. You could take a trip, or go out to dinner more often.
 More Productivity – When you drink too much, the hangover the next day
makes it almost impossible to do anything properly. If you stop drinking you’ll
get more done and your productivity will rise. You will also reduce the risk of
losing your job due to sick days you take off from hangovers.
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  No Risk to Others- When you're drunk you can be a risk to other people, as
you have no idea what you’ll do when drinking. You might get into a fight; you
might drive and kill someone or any number of various scenarios. When you
don’t drink you don’t have that unpredictability anymore. Drinking impairs
your ability to function as a normal individual.
 End Addiction – Your addiction to alcohol destroys your life in many ways.
You could have family problems or problems with personal relationships. You
might lose your job, or go to jail for being intoxicated in public. When you stop
drinking you can recover much of your life and heal relationships with those
you have hurt.
 End Binges – you won’t have those all night alcoholic binges where you drink
to the point of passing out. You won’t pose a danger to your well-being any
longer when you give up alcohol.
 Accomplishment – You will have a real sense of accomplishment if you quit
drinking. You won’t be controlled by substance abuse anymore and you can
feel free to be the person you always wanted to be. Freedom from alcohol will
allow you to have personal freedom, too.

You get so many positive benefits by giving up alcohol. If you’re addicted, then giving
up alcohol is the best thing you can do for yourself. One drink is often too much, so
the sooner you quit the better off you will be. There are services out there that can
help you give up alcohol and reclaim your life that you have lost. These professionals
can work with you to end your alcohol dependency and bring you on the road to a
real recovery.
Download the Give Up Alcohol Course to learn more from the comfort and privacy
of your own home without going to AA .

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Tips to Help You Quit Drinking Alcohol
If you want to stop drinking alcohol, the following tips will help you get started.
1. Work out your current situation with alcohol
Use a drinking diary, or go through the last month to work out when you drank, how
much, where and with whom. Can you see any patterns when you drank too much? Is
it only on Friday evenings you drink too much, or is it every night at the diner table.
Doing this will give you a better idea of how serious your drinking problem is, and
where and when the problems are happening.
2. See your doctor
Take this information to your doctor and get checked out to see if you have a physical
addiction to alcohol. It may not be safe to go ‘cold turkey’ in certain situations, so you
may need to cut down gradually.
3. Work out your goals for drinking for the next 30 days
Instead of working on your whole life, you can take things one step at a time. After
exploring your history, you might just decide to have one or two alcohol free days.
Otherwise, you might decide to cut out drinking altogether. Choose a goal that works
for you. Something that is challenging, but not unrealistic. Small steps are better
initially than large steps that can be better achieved over a longer time period.
4. Get some support
Either friends, non-drinkers, your doctor or other support group. A person or group
with whom you can share your goals, call if you need their support and also discuss
problems and challenges with. Someone who will hold you to account, to a certain
extent.
5. Make some alternative plans
Looking at your drinking diary from step 1, work out what some alternatives to the
situations, locations and companions with whom you drink? For example, if you drink
heavily at the dining room table, maybe you could play squash or badminton with
your partner that evening as an alternative? Find some sport or activity away from the
familiar location.
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Try to find alternatives for every time you heavily drink. The idea is to plan in advance
so when the situation occurs again, you are ready for it. Better yet, you can make sure
it will not happen again by not being in that situation.
6. Take it one day at a time
Just enjoy each day as it comes and celebrate the days you are able to make progress
compared to the previous month. If you have a relapse or two, know that you can
recover as you have already succeeded.
Bit by bit as you go through the 30 days, you will make changes that lead you to the
point of giving up alcohol.
For more information, download the Give Up Alcohol Course which I have carefully
developed together with many different experts to give you the tools to change your
drinking once and for all.

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Summary

Knowing that you should quit or cut down is usually fairly easy if you’re being honest
with yourself, but actually getting rid of a drinking problem for good can be tough.
While some people choose to follow the AA method or something similar, many
others are able to successfully kick the habit on their own terms.
The following tips are tried-and-true strategies. When taken seriously and followed
carefully, these tips will absolutely help you to rid your life of excessive drinking and
all of the consequences that come with it.
● Set goals. Like anything you want to accomplish in life, you have a much better
chance of succeeding when you lay out a plan of action first. Without setting down
concrete goals – including deadlines – it can be too tempting to always put off
quitting until some other time.
The truth is that there will never be a “good time.” You have to put one foot in front
of the other and get going. Writing down goals and sticking to them is a very effective
way to keep yourself on course.
● Get rid of the temptations. Does this mean you can’t dine anywhere that alcohol
is served or that you must shun the friends you usually drink with? Not at all.
However, it’s a good idea to rid your home of alcohol and to let your friends know
what you’re doing so they won’t tempt you by offering you a drink.
Most of us know when or where we’re more apt to drink, if we think about it. You
may have to avoid the situations that have historically led to you getting drunk, at least
until you’ve become more comfortable with staying sober.
● Find other interests right away! Take classes, go to the gym, join a community
group or take up a hobby you enjoy. Filling your time with activities that don’t involve
drinking will really work in your favor. You’ll be avoiding temptation and retraining
yourself to get excitement from other sources.
It is almost always the case that the time you used to spend drinking is well worth
trading in for real, quality time doing something you enjoy or being with loved ones.
Life can really open up without alcohol consuming so much of your time and energy
– and money!
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● Accept help from others. No matter how well prepared you are, there are
inevitably going to be times when you feel unable to suppress the urge to drink. This
is why it’s a great idea to designate someone (or more than one person) to help you
resist. This person should be someone that you trust and who is willing to be there for
you whenever the need arises. Sometimes, just a phone conversation or instant
message with someone can help get you through it.
Other times may call for a face-to-face meeting. Don’t appoint this important role to
anyone who has been judgmental or unkind to you about your drinking (or anything
else). Chances are you won’t feel like reaching out to such a person when you’re
feeling low.
Getting on top of an alcohol problem isn’t a walk in the park, but it is possible and
the results are well worth the trouble. By putting a plan-of-attack in place before
diving into alcohol-free living, you’ll significantly raise your chances of achieving
lasting success.
Learn how to control your drinking in the privacy of your own home without going to
AA or expensive counseling with the Give Up Alcohol Course.

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Message from the Author
If you are currently experiencing a drinking problem, I know how difficult
and hopeless it can feel. I was there too. I also know that the beliefs and
thinking you might currently have may seem impossible to change. As if
they are the way things are.

The key philosophy I have is that you are a problem drinker rather than an
alcoholic and there is no one way to make a change with alcohol - there is
only YOUR way. My whole course is based on providing you with a
number of different approaches to finding your way.
I hope you will join me in changing your life with alcohol forever. Every
day now, I cannot even begin to realize the benefits of the years of not
drinking which have helped my health, well-being and also my finances!
In developing this Course which includes both the 204 page book, 3
hypnosis MP3s and the 30 Day Alcohol E-Mail Course, I have created
something which can truly make a difference to you.

From the Back Cover of the Course

Developed together with addictions experts from around the world using a
wide variety of approaches to dealing with alcohol problems, you will:
 Learn the exact steps and specific directions to stop drinking alcohol

 Reverse the damage alcohol has caused to your brain and body
 Feel proud of yourself, and make your children and family proud of
you
 Find and deal with the causes of your drinking, so you will always be
in control
 Get back to being happier, healthier and more productive
Join other former problem drinkers from around the world who have used
the Give Up Alcohol Course to get free of their alcohol issues once and for
all.