Kick the Drink. . .Easily!

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I’ve read many quit lit books this year and throughout this one, I felt like I was getting yelled at the entire time. I was getting to a point where I really didn't feel in control of my alcohol consumption so I was ready to hear what he had to say. I was especially enamored of his notion that we miss out on absolutely nothing when we don't drink; in fact, it's a big win. What re-reading the books (list below) helped me to do was to recognise the cycle of waking and feeling low and believing that a drink will help and then one becoming three or four and waking the next day feeling low again and on and on… I see that I can handle the bad days without it.

Alcohol is the most abused legal drugs and if it was just coming on the market today, then it would be deemed illegal! The warm, fuzzy happy feeling that comes from having the first one or two is what hooks people in and is a benefit for those feeling insecure, or tired, or down.So now it's Tuesday night, no alcohol since Friday night, haven't even given it a thought and it has to be down to that book. If you've gotten to that chapter in the book and consider yourself free, you don't need that one drink to celebrate anything.

The weight continues to come off me - and even Christmas week when I ate for England I didn't put any on! Not sure what the success rates are for his method, but the book is informative, entertaining, and British, so we see that the Brits are just as awash in booze as Americans. The book really helps with this though because it teaches you how to think differently about alcohol. Let’s drink to so and so’s promotion, birthday, wedding, graduation, christening, team making it to the Super Bowl etc.After a few more weeks feeling really crappy, I realised that this time was not like the first time.

This is the root of the success and appeal - because the result is permanent (and not an ongoing struggle of willpower) and, as the title suggests, because it is easy. I grew up in the UK in the 80s and 90s when alcohol consumption was normalised to the extent that you were seen as odd if you don’t drink to excess fairly regularly. Early in the book Jason confesses that his text contains its fair share of brain-washing, or rather repeated, mantra-like messages which serve to break down common perceptions about alcohol. There are plenty of facts and statistics in this book about drinking and the damage it can do - however as Jason says himself - most drinkers are not idiots and they know why they shouldn't drink.I used iTunes to convert it to an audiobook format and now listen to it on my phone for half an hour in the morning when exercising.

It has given me so much more than any other book out there regarding sobriety and alcohol addiction. One thing I would say - I read this in a day and I think that the intensity of the message really helped.Looking back now, with a clear head and the 20:20 vision of hindsight, I see that I was drinking in 2019 because I felt lonely, angry and sad.