Everyone knows that getting rid of alcohol and stopping drinking is very difficult and, for many, almost impossible. Drinking alcohol is firmly held in your tenacious hands. Overcoming the psychological addiction controlled by your own brain is a difficult task, because the brain doesn't obey you in most cases, but your body does obey the brain. The body wants to drink water and you will look for water. The body wants to eat, gives a signal to the brain and it, controlling you, looks for food. And the brain wants to get a shot of alcohol, and you really want to drink it. So why is there a desire in our body, and indeed in our brain, to drink an alcoholic beverage?
Why does the brain want to drink alcohol?
Here we must look for when the connection between the brain and the drink starts to emerge. Everyone can notice that the onset of human consumption of alcohol is mainly associated with good and bright events - holidays, weddings, birthdays and corporate parties. And remembering all those vacations, you remember, which means your brain only remembers joy, fun, good mood. If it went wrong from excessive drinking, then it happened the next day and there's always an excuse for it - they say, drunks, who doesn't, but it was fun.
In addition, many people notice that after a hard day at work, drinking a glass, another alcoholic beverage or even a light beer such as beer, immediately followed by stress relief, comes a good mood, fatigue decreases. Experts explain this by the fact that alcohol is actually in the narcotics group, and the World Health Organization equated alcohol with a drug in 1975. Getting into our brain, so there are virtually no barriers to access in our bodies, it affects the dopaminergic neurons, which fire up and start producing dopamine, in effect producing the hormone of happiness and pleasure. The brain senses the beginning of this period and begins to associate it with drinking alcohol, which in effect leads to the formation of a strong and stable positive psychological connection between alcohol consumption and the brain. So to get the same "pleasure" you need to drink more, then more and more, and more often, as the sensitivity of the dopamine receptors becomes more and more blunted. And indeed, a person flows smoothly into the second stage of alcoholism, when there is not only a psychological connection but also a physiological dependence on alcohol consumption, which requires immediate treatment for alcohol dependence.
How to stop drinking?
Therefore, those who understand their "future", where life goes with frequent drinking, and who want to get rid of this growing dependence, actually have to fight against their own brain, which starts to have a stable psychological connection and the need of drinking alcohol to get some quick and bright "cheerful" moments in life after drinking.
Step 1 - We must recognize that the brain is, in fact, our worst enemy!
All the problems we face initially arise in their depths (fear, anxiety, reluctance), this is the brain's job. It creates obstacles for us, creates difficulties, forms habits and prevents us from facing them.
Drinking alcohol, we get a huge amount of dopamine secreted by the brain from contact with alcohol, a neurotransmitter responsible for joy, euphoria, pleasure in the brain. This number is so large that it overshadows even the happiest moments of our lives. This "undeserved" flow of joy and pleasure comes precisely from the effects of alcohol on the brain. So, having received "cheap" pleasure through alcohol and gained a strong attachment to it, he is trying to achieve it - like, "I want more pleasures, I want more joy quicker, I want to relieve the stress of life quickly" in the way simpler, drinking alcohol, without trying to solve the heaped difficult tasks, and then enjoy your solution.
Step 2 - Desire is the root cause of all beginnings!
Only desire can completely rebuild your brain and form the right order in it. Just the desire to get a more "difficult" joy, a more "difficult" pleasure, gained after applying a lot of force, and not just - I drank and "I feel good, and I don't care about anything. "Just the desire to receive Real "deserved" joy interrupts the brain's desire to receive "soft" joy quickly, here and now. Since, as soon as he made the decision to give up alcohol, he declared war on his brain, at the same moment he formed an order in his head for other desires for "work" and took the course of sobriety.
Step 3 - Quit Easily! Not starting over is difficult!
Don't start again. . . Sometimes it's disastrously difficult! That's why quitting addiction is always a war. The brain sparks an acute desire to accept something and removes all barriers to it. Your will is the only obstacle to drinking alcohol.
Ethanol (alcohol) is a powerful stimulant of joy and euphoria in the brain. If you stop drinking, you'll probably start thinking that it would be nice to drink beer, vodka, or brandy now. Remembering alcohol as a pleasurable event, but otherwise the brain won't remember alcohol, which brings you a lot of feelings of joy and euphoria, and all of this at the same time, you won't be able to resist the urge to drink again . Here you need to be able to think of alcohol as a bad event or to be coded. Alcohol coding will help to relive that moment of desire and allow time for the opportunity to deny alcohol consumption.
4 steps - won't last long!
Therefore, this desire must be evaluated. . . Rate on a 10-point scale. How powerful is the desire (like a typhoon or like a storm). Rarely, when realizing the degree of desire, the scale reaches a powerful seat of 10 points. Therefore, based on the results of consciousness, it is necessary to shift this non-powerful desire to other types of activity.
Begin to receive simple natural human joys from life, work, family, hobbies, communicating with others. Never drink alcohol, otherwise you will have to start all over again.
The more varied your new entertainment, the faster your brain will adapt to the normal low levels of dopamine and, as we remember, alcohol drastically and often artificially increases the level of dopamine in the body.
Step 5 - Play only alcohol!
We do not recommend quitting and quitting smoking at the same time, or giving up your favorite foods. If this is done at the same time, the risk of breakdown increases many times, because when giving up everything, the brain goes through much more stress than when giving up some habits or addictions. In the beginning, you can keep the rest of your bad habits.
So if you decide to stop drinking, stop drinking. If it's more important for you to stop smoking, stop smoking. Abandoning everything at once, you will not be able to resist the double or triple temptation. And if you collapse, for example, from smoking, you are very likely to collapse when you stop drinking.
Step 6 - Don't get lost!
In the 1st week, the most difficult moments arise when quitting alcohol. Fear, anxiety, increased desire. Here, no matter what, it is very difficult to cope without medication. If you understand that it will only get worse, it is best to seek medical help from your doctor. There are drugs that actually reduce the craving for alcohol, reduce stress, and eliminate discomfort.
In such cases, we strongly recommend that you contact the drug treatment center's doctors. They will help you choose the right life cycle regimen to stop drinking. Provides perfectly selected medicines and vitamins and minerals needed by the body. Control your well-being with the latest medical devices.
After all, the most important thing is not to let go and go back to drinking.
Step 7 - You Need Support!
For support, there is always the opportunity to contact the Alcoholics Anonymous group. If we discard all conventions and ailments, then it is obvious that people can help each other. Without support, we are practically helpless, even in everyday life. If you do not wish to be part of the Alcoholics Anonymous group, you have the opportunity to contact the psychological support service.
Step 8 - Burn the Adrenaline!
Due to the pronounced increase in the amount of adrenaline in the blood as a result of refusing alcohol, it must be burned. Burning adrenaline without affecting others is only possible through physical activity. Like everything else in our life, you need to start gradually. It's better if there's an opportunity to work out at the gym. Otherwise, short outdoor walks or jogging will suffice.
If you give up alcohol, go for more walks, meet friends and take an active rest.
By playing sports activities, you not only help burn adrenaline, but also strengthen your muscles, nervous system, health and provide your brain with new tactile and physical sensations, forcing you to distract yourself from thoughts of alcohol. This additional "work" for the brain has a beneficial effect on movement along the path of sobriety and active sober living.
Walk and travel more with a complete rejection of alcoholic beverages.
Take walks, travel, where the brain has nowhere to hide with your thoughts about alcohol. Shift and burn old memories of a nice drink with new impressions.
Step 9 - You Will Succeed! Do not doubt!
It is important to resist: sleep, nourish, try to be in the mood and in the mood for the positive. Also, this applies to all people, since we are all dependent on something. That's why the regimen is so important to achieving a positive result. only the regime is able to sharpen us to fight (first of all, with us)
Step 10 - Try to be happy!
Getting sober after drinking alcohol is boring. The world around us is no longer pleasing with colors and events, because they lack the power to interrupt the euphoric state of alcohol intoxication. This boredom is also a product of our brain. Therefore, you must always be looking for yourself: a new hobby, interest, desire. Happiness is a product of our brains (as are fears). The brain can be customized and you decide.
Popular alcohol questions and answers for them
Every time I stop drinking and I can't contain myself - I start again, what should I do?
It is very difficult to stop drinking alcohol. The neural connections created in the brain between a positive idea of drinking alcohol and receiving joy, pleasure and euphoria from it cannot be destroyed without a fight. Alcohol belongs to the group of narcotic substances and will not work to expel its effect on the body without a lot of work, perseverance and willpower.
If you don't have enough willpower to resist alcohol, you should think of coding as an opportunity to stop drinking alcohol.
If you are full of perseverance and strength to fight alcohol addiction, then:
- Do not give up.
- Try to trick your brain, as it is the main leader of your body. Badly think of alcohol as a toxic substance, just remember bad experiences with alcohol. Imagine it as an extremely dangerous substance and drink it in disgust, holding strong alcohol in your mouth especially to feel trouble. Do everything on purpose so that it is unpleasant for you to drink alcohol.
- Start drinking alcohol in very small doses. Just a sip. Be adamant about it.
- For any alcoholic suggestions, translate your craving into those non-alcoholic beverages you like best and drink it just for pleasure rather than alcohol.
Experiment with all your knowledge and tricks to resist alcohol addiction. Remember that alcohol controls your brain.
Can alcohol coding be part of treatment for alcohol dependence?
Coding is often included in the course of treatment to allow the patient to live the coding time without drinking. During this time, you can generally improve your health, shaken by alcohol, restore family and work relationships if they have been violated due to alcohol addiction, and recover morally and physically.
Can a person drink alcohol and not be an alcoholic?
It certainly can. There are a lot of people like that. They are well aware of the dangers of drinking in large quantities and do not allow themselves to get drunk "in the garbage", oversleep, fight with their spouse, ruin their health, and create a lot of other problems. Even the most resistant to alcohol addiction, if they drink a lot of alcohol almost every day, they will quickly develop the habit of drinking alcoholic beverages. And if we consider that alcohol belongs to the group of narcotic substances, which was approved by the World Health Organization in 1975, then alcohol dependence will likely cover almost anyone who drinks heavily and frequently. Therefore, drink alcohol only in a limited amount that does not lead to addiction.