Paxil.
Works like a champ. Fills the holes in your head, the longing to jump into the abyss. If you know, you know.
Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?
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#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ultimately, pleasures and hardships fade, what remains at the end is what we accomplished and what we regret. That is, the very memories I'm suggesting you use to evaluate your habits. You had a good time at a party once. Great. Are you really still enjoying that good time? Not likely. You climbed a mountain another time. You were tired and it was very difficult. Are you still exhausted months later? Not likely. But…
I remember injuries from exercising and other things involving exercise because they lasted months or forever . You’re acting as if exercise never has any drawbacks - like the other commenter said. It definitely does. Getting injured is part of it and is a routine issue for many people - you try to avoid it but it just happens. I’ve had issues with my patella tracking for years now. My fingers don’t act the same caus…
This sort of applies to misguided training as well. If you are into training, training like an idiot with get-jacked-quick schemes like german volume training 7 days a week or the bulgarian method or whatever, that sure may appear sweet before you try it. A torn ACL or rotator cuff later, and maybe it wasn't such a great idea.
In retrospect, boring modest training would have gotten you a lot farther.
Re: Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?
#393I quit smoking after 18 years and think the same advice is applicable: remove yourself from the triggers.
Right before I got married I quit smoking and started using the patch. Once we got to our honeymoon spot the urge to smoke dropped off because I was in a new location. I didn’t use the patch at all and am still smoke free to this day.
If you can afford it, take a 5 day vacation and don’t drink. That may give you the mental distance to break the cycle and give up drink.
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#394I've cut back by switching to non-alcohol beer. I've found that I enjoy the taste of beer, but I don't enjoy how shitty alcohol makes me feel. NA beer tends to solve that for me. Lots of good options coming out. * Just the Hazy by Sam Adams is top tier. * Athletic brewing is solely NA beer - lots of different varieties. * Heineken 0.0 is great * O'Douls amber is surprisingly passable as well I suspect the options wil…
Yeah this. I think n/a beer is much better to cap the night off as well. Alcohol was really disrupting my sleep for a while there and this way I still have a nice night time drink without that downside.
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#395If you think you may have an addiction, then hit up an AA meeting. I am in a different 12 step program for something that impacted my life far worse than alcohol ever did and basically, it works if you work it.
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#396Becks zero alcohol beer. It costs as much as real beer and has passable taste. There might be better zero beers but I haven't found it and Becks is just good enough to forget it's zero alcohol.
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#398I've found it easy to stop a great deal of such behaviors by examining not what they promise to deliver, but what they actually brought. I.e. don't look forward, look backward when making decisions. Alcohol promises a great time. Alcohol delivers a hangover and regrets. Junk food promises a great time. Junk food delivers poor health and regrets. Going to the gym promises hardship and struggle. It delivers health. I'v…
Alcohol promises a great time. Alcohol delivers a hangover and regrets. I drink alcohol at least 2 or 3 times a week. I can't remember the last time I had a hangover. I just don't drink an excessive amount. Junk food promises a great time. Junk food delivers poor health and regrets. I eat junk food a few times every month. I'm above average on most health metrics. Going to the gym promises hardship and struggle. It d…
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#399I never really did stop completely, I just reduced my beer consumption a lot. My replacement is glass of 50% water / 50% apple juice, re-filled several times during the hours, which I have found works great
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#400I started getting heart palpitations when I had a drink, so I knocked it on the head. It was already barely worth the headache, it certainly wasn't worth feeling like rubbish during too. Not had a proper drink in nearly four years now, recently had a few of the non-alcoholic or 0.5% type beers that are ok and haven't caused me any issue.