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Old 09-26-2005, 01:21 PM
Blarg Blarg is offline
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Default Re: Do I need to quit boozin?

Too much, but of course you know that.

You shouldn't drink that much, or drink every day. Sooner or later you're going to have liver problems if you do, and dying of liver disease is supposedly a very awful way to die.

Some people can quit cold turkey, and that's usually the best way, but it doesn't work for a lot of people because you have to really want to quit, and most people don't really deep down want to quit something they enjoy even if it is destroying them. So if you're the taper-down type, how about just giving yourself a simple rule, like, never drink two days in a row? That will give your liver at least some shred of a chance to not be completely polluted. And how about something like, I'll drink a full glass of water for every other beer? You can still get plenty drunk, but you'll piss out more alcohol and have much less of a chance of going to sleep still super-packed with toxins. Which would be better for health and let you wake up feeling not quite as tired or crappy or whatever.

So you should try something either drastic or incremental, as long as it's something.

It can be an unhappy world, but it won't get any happier if you get liver or kidney disease, or cancer, that's for sure. And you are drinking enough to develop brain problems if you keep it up. The last thing you want to do is wind up remembering when you were smarter, and wishing you could think at a level that has become unavailable to you.
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