Who else here /noalcohol/?

who else here /noalcohol/?

no alcohol no hangover

no social life

I only drink socially. So yeah.

no alcohol here! people pick on me when I refuse to drink!

Basically this.

I hate drinking to begin with. It's bad enough I have to suffer a fucking headache, get shitfaced, feel like garbage, etc. But doing it alone just makes it worse. In fact, the only reason to get shitfaced is so I can stick my dick in someone else getting shitfaced, and I can't do that if I'm sober, because then it's magically rape.

Besides, I've dated my share of alcoholics. I don't want to end up with fucking liver disease and jaundice by 29, and I know girls that drink fucking rubbing alcohol and do that shit hard enough to get there. Fucking alcoholics go around sitting on every dick they can find in order to get free booze because, gee wiz, they're a fucking alcoholic.

I'd go out and drink with my friends, but guess what, I aint got any friends, because the only person I care enough about to spend any time with is myself. At the gym.

>what is weed
I love alcohol but come on

Have vodka

No hangover

Fuck that shit. Worst stimulant existing.

I drink socially, but by socially I mean once in a blue moon when I actually get invited to anything where alcohol is involved. And if I get a choice, its a hard spirit like vodka rather than beer.

Honestly the social benefit of not being a teetotaler faggot is more important than the slight damage alcohol would cause.

I was raised in a family of abusive alcoholics. I get irritated whenever I'm with drunk people. I'm ok with people drinking in moderation but there's not a lot of those people where I live

pretty much but not really voluntarily

Drinking is my only real social outlet.

I'm too introverted sober for class to really be socially fulfilling and I'm training too hard at weightlifting to really get in close.
Anytime I do make friends the only way everyone meets up and hangs out is if drinking is involved.

I hate it now. I can't deal with the physical and mental toll anymore. I have to just cut it out pretty much completely but that leaves a very boring existence.

What the hell do people do for social fun if they're not boozing?

>What the hell do people do for social fun if they're not boozing?
Talking about things

If you want to have conversations with people that are not vapid cunts you should find more intelligent people.

Hate alcohol.
Smoke weed though, that shit doesn't interrupt my training or makes me hangover so it's my drug of choice.

Problem with that is not finding intelligent people; It's finding intelligent and cynical people.

I'm a vulgar person. I like to swear and talk about nasty and potentially offensive things. People who don't drink typically tend to be very sensitive types. The people I get along with are drinkers. Now I can't drink I'm alone.

Maybe I should go to AA and meet some people there.

Welcome to the club. It's lonely in here.

Quit a little over two months ago after I had another embarrassing behavior related incident. I had had enough and was fed up with my behavior, I didn't like what it turned me into and I don't want others to think of me as that person. Haven't touched it since and it's the longest I've gone without since I was 16 (27 now). I'm on depression meds now recommended by my therapist, been on them for about 7-8 weeks in addition to being sober. I cry a lot more now and I feel like shit all the time mentally. I'm not doing very well

Go meet some Germans, Brits, Italians or Australians. Stay away from Americans.

Im on uni exchange and its been fascinating how different the students are. Im very much like you being very cynical, somewhat antisocial and pessimistic and often crass in conversation and more often than not those are the nationalities who deal with it better than others, drunk or not.

Finding people you can stand and who can stand you is a exercise in frustration, you just have to keep meeting new people and being yourself until someone sticks.

Quitting alcohol was seriously the easiest thing I've done. You just... don't drink it. The hard part was my asshole friends. "Hurr durr why dont you drink you're not a man"
>mfw I'm the biggest dude in my group of friends and the only one who goes to the gym

It even got to the point where we were making plans for hanging out, and one of my friends said "Yeah, but if we're gonna do this, user has to drink at least a couple of beers, otherwise its off"

Got some perspective, realized how fucking toxic that comment was, now I barely talk to him.

Im getting fit, I'm not getting hangovers, I'm being productive, I'm actually starting to be happy.

ITT anonymous alcoholics

When i was in my late teens I used to drink a lot.
Drinking was legal past the age of 14 where I live back than.
I played in a semi-successful band so we would go on these tours to neighboring cities.
This would last for 3-4 weeks.
And those 3-4 weeks where basically hungry, have a beer, thirsty have a beer, bored have a beer.
Ok pre-show prep, drink until you're drunk enough to be the best king of the universe.
In the later stages drugs came in to play as well alto i never did any of the harder stuff.
None cared the band was mostly wet behind the ears kids, people just wanted to party and party all the time.
Once a guy from my band died due to a an overdose i got clean cold turkey.
And let me tell you alcohol withdrawal is the worst thing to happen to me.
I shit my bed couldn't walk or even stand, every muscle in your body cramps up to the point where you want to scream but can't because your jaw is locked shut.
Spend 2 weeks in a hospital bed with an IV in my arm and doctors eyeballing whether ill live.
And that was at 20 years of age.
So no I don't drink.
The thing is once I stopped the people I hung out with kinda went away. I didn't like them drunk. But I couldn't stand them sober.

I drank a bottle of wine last night and took 2 Dramamine pills to fall asleep last night. Does wine even count?

Same situation growing up and feelings as It scared me pretty good seeing my mother destroy her liver and almost die twice from alcohol poisoning and my father attack me in a drunken rage when I was six or seven.

I still use it in cooking because it does add a really nice depth of flavor to some dishes.

>Try quitting alcohol
>Easy as hell, just stop drinking it, only risk is getting forced back onto it by peer pressure

>Try quitting sugar
>Always end up sneaking something in eventually

>Try quitting porn
>lolnope

And people claim alcohol is dangerous.

that bitch wouldnt be as fat if she'd quit drinking

You're not wrong. After putting down the drink I realised that even some of my best friends were really no more than drinking buddies. Not that they're not good people... I'm just pretty anti-social in general until I've had a few drinks.

I never put 2 and 2 together until now but every time I've hung out with friends I've been quiet and awkward until a few pints have been had.

If I look back over the last ten years at every bad thing to happen to me drinking has been involved every. single. time.

All my failures, embarrassments, fallings out, money problems, illnesses and general bad happenings have happened directly because of my drinking.
It hurts to think about how much progress I'd have made this past ten years if I'd not spent so much of it in the pub.

100% quitting sugar is really hard because its in pretty much everything

I loved drinking but after working with drunks doing the doors I thought "Do I look that fucking tragic?" I gradually started hating drunks and realized my entire social life revolved around it and didn't want to end up one of the hopeless old fucks stuck in this town working some meaningless job to get black out drunk every night.

Yep. Not to mention the anxiety after waking up the next day and thinking about the shit you did and said to people. AND the hangovers.

Its not so much quitting sugar, but quitting unnatural sugar.

Iv been trying to slate my sugar appetite with extra fruit but fuck me I can only have so many smoothies.

>Getting hangovers

Stop drinking chemical piss and drink a pint of water before you go to bed.

Nobody got hangovers like my friend did. 3 day illness, vomiting, headaches, looked like a bruised turd and smelled twice as bad for days.

I got him to ditch the cheap mass produced chemical 'beer' and onto real/craft ale, and he never suffers anymore. Sure it's a bit more pricey, but it's worth it to not be filling yourself with synthetic garbage. It fucking tastes a thousand times better too, and some of it can be good for you.

>I never put 2 and 2 together until now but every time I've hung out with friends I've been quiet and awkward until a few pints have been had.
I was the same, but Iv recently met someone whose made me realize im not actually anti social, I just dont like the majority of people I had to hang around. People like us value quality over quantity and often thrive in social situations where we are sober but in the company of people we respect and trust, rather than in a drunken haze with a bunch of people you deal with just because they're drunk too and you're not doing anything else. At which point the only 'socializing' we do is brought on by the booze and not because we want to.

Its not easy, but you have to go out and meet new people.

>next day and thinking about the shit you did and said to people.
People dont care that much

Seriously, no one notices the stupid shit you do more than yourself. Worrying about it just makes you feel worse which makes you a worse socializer.

i am, but not by choice

>no friends to drink with
>no pleasure from drinking alone

>have to drink to be fun
>have to drink to meet people
>have to drink to fuck grills
You live a sad life user.

It's really sad that most people nowadays seem to think that you can't have fun or be social without drinking. Luckily I have like-minded non-drinking friends.

Do some research before spewing out beer snob crap. I'm a Belgian, I've been nursed on fucking craft beers, and know for a fact they give you worse hangovers, as they have more residue in them than mass produced pilsners.

Alcohol for me is a Friday and Saturday thing, and even that's not guaranteed.

Most I've had in the last ten years was eleven pints in seven hours, and that was a rarity.

I love the stuff (I'm an Ale and Whisky man) but my appreciation for beer surpasses my desire to get drunk so I'm generally sensible with it.

I actively dislike people who don't drink, they're usually the worst.

>no pleasure from drinking alone
you just aren't drinking enough m8

Bit narrow minded, mate.

I have a friend who is as well-rounded as anybody can be, friendly and funny. He doesn't drink because it killed his dad, brother and uncle. Understandably he wants nothing to do with the stuff.

Aon, this post just gave me some strong perspective. I seriously just assumed I was anti social until I saw your post. It's true, I'd rather be with good buddies sober rather than people I don't like while drunk.

i dont know how anyone can drink that shit.

then again i only drink milk and water (and sometimes lemonade)

>Have a beer with the lads on rest day
>Wake up next day, 0hangover, feeling good
>Warming up for squats
>Summin ain't right
>Fail a warmup set
>Go straight home cursing my fucking retarded self

That was one year ago, havent drank since.
I will get a drink and
>sip
on parties to not be that guy but I try to keep it to the minimum.

I'm trying to quit completely right now, last time was 2 beers on monday from a fucking PLASTIC bottle with friend.
It's pretty hard as i'm only 18 and most people around my age drink at least ocassionaly even though i'm in a good school. I guess i should find circle of friends that will not try to pressure me into drinking, but it's hard when i'm not really the type who actively seeks others and already in this circle of friends.
Some of the reasons why i quit
>alcohol is neurotoxic
>alcohol dehydrates the body and muscles cant regenerate properly
>worse sleep while drunk
>saying stupid shit and doing stuff i would not normally do
>liking the buzz too much
>expensive
>useless calories

I quite drinking after I was out of my 20's. It just stopped being fun and a waste of money.
You act like you can't still go out to bars and socialize while not drinking booze.

I used to drink a shitload but instituted a rule where I can't drink within 24 hours of lifting, before or after. So basically only Saturday nights. It has improved my life for sure. Alcohol is a fucking meme in any case, I'd rather just improve my social skills naturally and feel comfortable in my own skin rather than needing a "social lubricant".

i almost never drink because i dislike the high
it's weird because i used to really enjoy it, especially with some benzo thrown in

15 months sober. Don't miss it at all.

For him.

Drink for me wasn't about the 'high' is was about normality.

Like 2-3 pints and I would feel like a normal person. I'd be able to converse freely without fear, approach people without fear, things would be funnier, food would taste better, I'd just feel so much more at ease.
That guy, that 3 pint me, is the best version of me socially. I feel like a kid again; a free spirit.

I wish I could feel that way all the time. Life would be amazing if I saw it from that perspective every day.

I literally had this epiphany about my life yesterday, so im glad I helped (myself) and you.

that was part of it for me aswell, but now when i drink i feel exhausted for some reason and the feeling just isn't as enjoyable as it once was.

opiates give you basically all that confidence and shit but without the obnoxiousness/mental confusion (that's another thing i don't like about alcohol, but with opiates your mind is still clear as day unless you're very high) and with a 1000 times better high, and that heavenly cozyness/warmness.
also you just return to baseline when it's over, no shitty hangover.
but of course they're hella addictive so yeah it's best to stay away from those

also if you like alcohol i would suggest you try some GHB, it's very very similar to alcohol but the feeling is 10x better and lasts more.
way more pleasurable and also the hangover is less bad and you need to drink just like 1ml and you're done

Using it in cooking is different. The fire/heat burns up the alcohol, so there's no worry there, bruv

Just take anxiety pills

The only people that I know that don't drink are either socially inept or ex-junkies

>tfw drinking 1-2 beers alone every weekend day because no friends and nothing else to do
Am I an alcoholic ? If not, will I become one?

You are if you cant stop

I've thought about going for anti-anxiety medication but all my anxiety stems from my fuckups in life and most of my fuckups stem from my abuse of alcohol.

So that's why I've given it up. My logic is that if I stop drinking, It'll stop causing anxiety, I'll be more productive and healthy which will lower my anxiety and eventually I'll be content enough with the progress I'm making to actually be that 3 pint dude sober.

The hurdle is usually getting about a week in, feeling really good, really productive, really positive and then wanting to capitalise on this good feeling by going out and getting laid which, of course, leads me to drink which brings me right back to square one.

I just need to deal with the boredom this time around.

>2016
>Being past university age and still thinking alcohol is good
>Still thinking getting shitfaced is the ultimate way to socialize


Mfw

>eating bread
Never going to make it

Plebeian detected.

I don't really drink because I'm a massive lightweight. Like, 2 shots gets me a little buzzed, usually get drunk at 3-4 shots. And I would get horrible hangovers, like, in bed all next day, throwing up, unable to eat

I also don't know shit about craft beers or anything like that because I'm a shut-in.

No, I'm not a woman, but I do weight about as much as one. I'm frail.

I have zero respect for women who get drunk, it instantly kills my interest

You can't respect many women these days then user.

>tfw big sports fan but friendless autist
>don't really drink alcohol much
>basically all people talk about as a sports fan is getting drunk at games, getting drunk when watching games, etc

I don't get how they can get drunk so much. Like, legit drunk. How can people just get drunk and be able to function just fine the next day

I mix vodka with my preworkout every day. Dries me out, gives me a good luck at ~12% BF.

Its just before 7am where I am right now.

Never had a hard time quitting any sort of narcotics.

Biologically I just don't have an addictive personality to abusive substances.

>be me
>straight edge my whole life
>eating healthy
>still get a fucking ulcer