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Stop drinking, quit alcoholism – 12 steps based on the Alcoholics Anonymous on how to give up your alcohol addiction!

How to stop drinking alcohol?

Are you trying to decide if you should stop drinking alcohol? Maybe you’ve already tried a few times to just cut down, and drink more sensibly like other people seem to.
Perhaps you’ve had limited success, you manage it for a week or so, but then you start drinking more again, then the blackouts and awful hangovers start, the guilt and the arguments with your partner. Do you finally decide its time to quit? It might be worth a try.
So how do you stop drinking? The first thing to look at is:

Emotional Problems and Alcohol:

People quite often use alcohol as a way of coping with emotional problems.
Whether it’s depression, anger, anxiety, boredom, frustration or whatever, very soon heavy drinkers may find that they do not have any ways of coping with emotional problems other than alcohol.
Coupled with this is the fact that often, coping with difficult emotions via alcohol does not actually deal with the situation causing such feelings.
But that’s not the only thing ….

In the United States, 93% of treatment programs for Alcohol Use Disorders are based on the 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.  These programs advocate the controversial premise that it is best to view Problem Drinking as a disease. Treatment emphasizes admitting powerlessness over the illness, complying with a plan developed by treatment providers, and adopting the norms and values of a new social group—the support group—in order to achieve total abstinence, which is the only acceptable outcome goal. The victim of the disease is considered responsible for neither the cause nor the resolution of the problem. 
There are a wide range of treatment programs available for problem drinkers, each one touting their particular approach. No single treatment approach stands out as better than the others. The key to good outcome is to match the method to achieve the intended goal [abstinence or moderate drinking] with the attributes of the problem drinker.

Surprising to most lay people: While cognitively impaired problem drinkers do better with more intensive treatment, the opposite is true for the much larger group of problem drinkers who are not impaired. In fact, most problem drinkers with good outcome at one-year follow-up, overcame their drinking problem without formal treatment. In the two populations studied in a report in The American Journal of Public Health, most individuals (77.5% and 77.7%) who had recovered from an alcohol problem for 1 year or more did so without treatment. A sizable percentage (38% and 63%) also reported drinking moderately after resolving their problem.

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