Who else has now "given up" drinking in 2017?

I'm already sober

Ive "given up" smoking due to the fact it was thinning my blood

But I'd live longer, so I'd be spending more money. I'm going to keep drinking.

i quit for a year, most of 2016. longest year of my life

I gave up drinking but decided to smart smoking. Who's with me???

I do both. I smoke more than I drink though.

>wedding ring

At least you can share your sticky buds with your wife's son

...

Excellent choice

I am.
My doctor said I have Steatohepatitis, thanks to alcohol, mostly beer.

Fuck new years, on my sixt Pilsner Urquell and about to break out the Bulleit. Also, never stop smoking, I'll never let anyone take away the few joys in life I still have left. Prost.

Not a chance. I like being drunk.

Last night was my very last night after 6 years of daily drinking I am done for good,..2017 is going to be a healthy happier time for this guy, im finally gonna get my shit together and make some money and enjoy good clean living

same here senpai—3 months and counting (but not literally counting because AA is for poor people).

Gave up soft drinks after spending all evening on a couch with a horrible toothache. Alcohol never wronged me.

1.1 liters in 10.1% alchool. Only 4 dollars a bottle.
Never quitting.

I've never drank before but I'd like to start because my life just gets shittier and shittier. What's some cheap dirty shit which will knock me out cold?

Any of it. If you're new to wrecking yourself and your life I'd recommend the cheapest wine you can find if you're planning to do it on the cheap. Or cheap whiskey and coke works.

I disagree with this. If you're going to pursue functional alcoholism, a good trick is to develop a taste for the good stuff. Then, when circumstances require you to cut back some, you can switch to cheap stuff. You'll find it unappealing and only drink a bare minimum. This only lasts until your palate has adjusted to the nasty shit, but that's long enough to make it through most of those "I gotta cut back a bit" times.

Don't knock yourself out cold if you've never even been drunk before. It's fun.

thinking about fasting for the rest of the day, getting drunk tonight and then hitting up the chinese buffet in the morningish for brunch

When I woke up today I did consider it, but managed to fight off such dark and horrendous ideas.

Yeah dude. I've been getting fucked up drunk daily for 9 years and today it's all gonna turn around. Clean living, exercise, lifting, here I come.
The Trump Presidency more than anything has inspired me to start Testosterone Quest because my main dude Donny T is a teetotaler. I have fight for my country.

I've given up on giving up

Nice work, kohai. I only drank once or twice a week but staying sober on New Years was a good step.

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what's the source of that gif?

I gave up drinking when I was born.

I'm more of a weekend alcoholic, I use the holidays as an excuse to drink more obviously but I'm thinking about cutting back even if for the sake of saving money. The weeks become a blur.

same here, I can go 5 days without anything remotely alcoholic, but come weekend/vacation/holydays...good shit I('m not a mean drunk though

I 'gave up' and am now just drinking.

NOPE
Was gonna go to dinner and a concert with my GF last night, and was saving my heavy drinking for the venue, but she got too tired for the show so I wound up NYE sober.

Drinking my 6th double bourbon with a splash of soda now and watching Krampus.

Went on a 5 day bender at the end of December, went through countless beers, a litre of gin, a litre of whiskey, a litre of rum, 3 grams of mephedrone, 2 grams of coke and some mdma.

Had shakes, sweats, heart palpitations and tear inducing anxiety when i woke up on new years eve that probably lasted near a full 24 hours or so, so deciding to go for a dry january at the very least. I know i'll never give all this shit up, life is too mundane to go without it, but gona let my body get over that shit for a bit i think

Guess the Meds & and/or drugs did this mostly, don't you ? Don't have any personal experioence how booze and shit like that interacts, I just smoke some bud occassionally, otherwise full time boozehound, and that I can handle somewhat

mostly i would imagine, i have had slightly more tolerable but similar experiences from just booze benders that have gone for 4/5 days though. im pretty sure uppers greatly exacerbate whatever horror you go through when its all over

I'm drunk and in my underwear on the couch and it's barely 4pm. I have a half liter of vodka left and an unopened 750ml bottle of Hennessy.

Made it through and had fun up to it, is what counts ;) I honestly don't get how some people can live in this world sober anymore

That's all the symptoms of delirium tremens.

I was pretty much a drunk for all of my 20's. When I hit about 29 I started getting dts when I would go on a 3 plus day bender. Same symptoms as that dude plus intense vomiting, like throwing up nothing but bile and water. The intense anxiety combined with heart palpitations make you feel like you will die.

I just have severe bouts of depression and anxiety after an all Weekend bender, after the years, one knows they'll come though

It's a leaf show called Trailer Park Boys.

for the love of god, if you are an alcohol maniac TAKE SOME VITAMINS. And drink more water. I have cut down to just guzzling a fifth of vodka or whiskey on saturday nights cause im old, but when i was a successful younger drunkaholic i noticed the huge difference it made when i started sucking down vitamins and water. we need to keep you guys alive long enough to either moderate your drinking or die of liver failure, cause the worst thing i can think of is dying from alcohol withdrawals. or killing yourself b/c of alcholism. or quitting drinking. oh well who cares.

I suppose everyone is different, outside of booze all I drink is coffee and water.

That's what I'm doing, Magnesium(!), calcium (optional I guess), Multivitamin. I just can't bring myseldf to drink water between drinking funstuff. Doing that the next morning, yeah, if I don't have any booze left. Still good advise though.

Not yet. Got a few hours to kill in the airport tomorrow and I'm going to do that drinking. But after THAT I'm done. For a while at least.

Yeah I told people I was going to "cut down" on drinking because its "bad for my health" kek. Just opened up a nice ice cold bottle of Russian standard. Fuck I hate this existence.

Aman brother!

what if i drink because i want to die?

I intended to but here I am hungover on day one

I'm getting on the wagon for a year, along with cutting fast-food. No booze will be brutal, don't give a Fuck about the no fast-food. Going to start smoking pot again after 10 years as a healthy sub for booze. I'm allowing myself half a dozen cheat days for the booze because I'll get off the wagon completely and hard if I don't.

As of 6 months ago.

I like this. I'm going to do it too.

I originally read it as a dozen cheat days though. Bummer.

I wish it was legal here, I think I could drop it

Is that part of your job or something? I'd love to get wasted whilst commuting in airports.

All I see ITT are a bunch of Gen X/Y pussies who think depression is real and need to drink it away. Get a job and get over it, entitled fucks.

I've "given up", that's for sure

are we talking about pokeymans now?

if you want to die, then blow your brains out mate, you really don't want to die from alcoholsim, i will tell you that much old friend.

>When I hit about 29 I started getting dts when I would go on a 3 plus day bender. Same symptoms as that dude plus intense vomiting

Exactly where I am right now. Turn 30 in March. I don't want to go through that shit anymore. Haven't had anything to drink for two weeks now

I gave up drinking for about a month. Back on it now.

It's fairly awful, but gets me through the day. 30 here.

so comfy

I haven't permanently given it up, but I won't be drinking for a few weeks at least. The holiday season fucking ravaged me.

I'm planning to give it up completely but I need it to socialise otherwise I'm just a anxious and paranoid mute.
Doesn't help that I love the taste of strong liquor.

>turning 21 in a few months
>have already sampled many kinds of alcohol
>never really liked anything other than wine and some brown stuff I forget the name of

I didn't finish TPB but holy fucking shit that got me
Jim Lahey is a magnificent bastard

Yep. I haven't drunk for a few weeks after blacking out at office Xmas party. I walked out into the snow and maybe passed out. Someone called an ambulance and they checked me out and put me in taxi. Got home about 3am managed to convince family I was fine. Up at 7am and made it to work. Could have been way worse. Feel so grateful I'm gonna be dry for a few weeks more at least

I've suddenly lost all desire to drink. I have been drinking everyday for the past year and a half. And at least 4 times a week before that. I haven't conciously decided to stop but I am experiencing no cravings. Strange but not unwelcome.

Your life is about to get a whole lot shittier if you start drinking, trust me. Even at its worst without alcohol, it is nowhere near the lows drinking will bring upon you.

good choice. I had some temptations pop up myself, but so far, so good :) Making some dinner, drinking some coffee, gonna smoke some weed in a bit. Have a doctor's appointment in the morning to get bloodwork tested (annual check up) then work late

I was really good this season right up until New Year's Eve. Had people over, went out, then had some drinks yesterday with brunch. Managed to not continue drinking today, despite being off work, and that's a success. Feeling pretty good going into the rest of this new year...feel like something inside me is changing, especially when it comes to booze. Kinda refreshing.

Just for January. I needed a vacation.

Lmao this.
Was on the verge of staying clean, but had about 5-6 drinks yesterday, woke up in the middle of the night now and am going to grab some beers out of the garage.

Trying to be a bit more sensible with it this year, aiming for at least 2 days off a week and never drinking so much that I can't speak. Quality over quantity or something like that. Aiming for less beer too, more gin / whisky

My diet is good, never eat fast food and mostly cook my own stuff with little salt / fat and I go to the gym regularly so not too worried about drinking every now and then. Life is going pretty good actually, especially when I wander in to the al/ck/ threads and see how bad it could be.

im not giving up drinking but i am trying to drink significantly less. so far it seems to be working but its also only been like 2 days

Sober for almost 10 months now

It's bretty gud, bruv

Day 4. Doing great.

>Trying to be a bit more sensible with it this year, aiming for at least 2 days off a week and never drinking so much that I can't speak.
Aiming high I see.

How the fuck are you supposed to stay clean if you keep beers in the garage?

At least make it so you have to go to the store so it's a pain in the ass.

Yeah pretty much. I am bad for having at least a beer or a glass of wine every night (usually 4-5 during the week), and when Friday comes I will sit in the house with a bottle of gin and drink until I fall asleep watching films / playing video games etc and then do the same on Saturday

Can't be good for me and writes off the whole weekend.

I have made a couple of fitness goals, which I'm going to try to accomplish by cutting back on drinking. I'm still going to drink socially, but I'm going to try to limit myself to a 6 pack if i drink alone.

you have to spend money to save momey

>>mephedrone
>current year
>still snorting plant food

You cheap fuck

Cocaine and booze make an entirely new toxic compound for your liver to break down. That shit will give you early cirrhosis mate, avoid combining them.

As for the rest of it, you burnt all your serotonin
Get some 5-htp for the comedown you fucking amateur!

I'm 37 and have been drinking heavily since I was 22. I'm shooting for my mid-40's before my body shuts down and I die. Might as well keep drinking, though. Praying that mother passes away before I do. What's up 2017, cheers *raises glass*

If you think it's shit now, just wait until you've developed a serious habit.

The addiction creeps up slowly then it hits you one day that you HAVE to fucking drink to stay somewhat normal. If you pass that point and don't taper down, you're fucked.

Three days sober after nightly blackouts for the last three weeks. I don't keep booze in the house and they don't sell it in grocery stores or gas stations here, so it's easier not to be tempted.

The boredom is really killing me though. I was going to go outdoors type shit, but it's been pissing rain for the last three days. I'm willing to bet that if I fall off the wagon tonight, it will be a beautiful day tomorrow and I'll be to hungover to enjoy it.

What's it mean when the night before you drunk a bunch of beer and rum and the next day you are basically trembling?

I have been thinking about it.

Alcohol withdrawal

low-key nerve damage. it's called the whiskey shakes

well i tapered down on monday with a few shots and i think the fear is finally gone. stayed drunk or hungover from a week before christmas to new year. suckin down water and vitamins and relaxing and just enjoying the fact that the world isn't going to eat me. this is so nice.take it easy folks.

I've given up drinking but have taken to smoking crack recently and feel it was a poor tradeoff