Going Dry

[MoneyGuy]

Geez, there are a lot of people who need their booze. Wow.

I can take it or leave it. I've gone months and months without. Right now I'm enjoying some wines but I can do without any booze of any kind. Now sex is another matter.

[calf]

I tried going dry for the summer.

I'm writing a big exam next week and spend pretty much the entire summer studying/preparing for it, and figured that I would eat better, not drink, and exercise more so that I'm both physically and mentally healthy. But, with the stress and stuff that came from studying, just had to go drinking a few weekends.

[Eastern Girl]

I am going to Niagara this weekend for a surprise birthday party for my brother and I am dreading it. I know that my brothers friends are all big drinkers and I am sure they won't hesitate to try and get me going, too. I managed to hold out during my moms wedding this past weekend, but it was tough. This is going to be downright brutal...

[jammies]

I've quit for a year twice just to prove to myself that I could. It did cut down on my visits to the pub and save a little money, but I never drink more than 3 or 4 beers in an entire evening anyway. I've never gotten any grief from anyone about it though, but then I don't really have any friends that just get loaded up and stupid-drunk anyway, just social drinkers.

Nothing like watching a hockey game with beer and wings though - Coke and wings just isn't at all the same thing for some reason.

[flip]

Well if anyone is going to break their dry spell don't forget to sue after!! Another BS example of how people can't take responsibility for their own actions.

She didn't even drive, she just went home and died from alcohol poisoning. How is it the bartenders problem to be able to tell how much is going to kill someone? I hate these effing stories.

RCMP announced Friday that criminal charges have been laid against an Alberta tavern, its owner and a bartender in connection with the death of a 22-year-old patron who was allegedly over-served when she was already drunk.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl..._gam_mostemail

On topic I get trashed about once every 2 to three weeks and get tipsy about once every week or two. I've never purposely abstained from liquor but from time to time I do it just because there is no reason to drink.

[missdpuck]

Originally Posted by kermitology

I really like beer, and after I came back from Germany I REALLY liked beer.

I started to feel like I was drinking too much, so I cut it out. The Weiss beer in my fridge makes me want to cry sometimes.. It's so good, once it touches your lips.

It seems like you can drink more over there even though I think it has a higher alcohol content. I guess that was my experience because I was always walking somewhere. I went for 3 years without even a glass of wine. I do like having a glass of cabernet at games though.

[Antithesis]

I find it interesting that this is even a topic; it's such a non-issue for me that I've just never thought of it in this way. I rarely drink, in fact, my wife is surprised when I have beer in the house at all. I think I bought a 6 pack of MGD during the Flames/Sharks series and that was the last time I hit the liquor store ... usually I just drink at the in-laws'

[Ice]

Once I finished college I didn't really see the need for getting hammered. As a result, I just don't really drink at all. Maybe once a year in Vegas I'll have a margarita with some friends, but that's about it. I don't see the usefulness of being impaired on a regular basis.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Tron_fdc

That is insane. 20 g's in 2 1/2 years??? Wow.

I quit smoking and went on to Copenhagen. Way easier on the lungs, but my dentist hates it. I love it though....nothin better than a big ol' dip before a hockey game.

Enjoy your prosthetic lips, cheek and jawbones.

[Eddie Bronze]

Forget drinking alcohol, I can't even so much as stand the smell of it. Head feels like it's in a table vice that's about to squeeze my brain into a pancake at even a faint sniff of it.

[Buff]

As I type this I'm dunker than a skunk and I have th e hickups. I just can't stop them. I'm scared to go to bed as my hicsups will wakup my already exhausted wife. (I was on call tonite so I couldn't go to the beer tasting thing witht my cow-orkers, but I met up with them to play some rockband. When I got home I decided to have some whikesy and coke. There wasn' tmuch left, or so it looked like and I finished off the last 6oz.... it only looked like 3... honest.

Its days like these that I swar the at getting drunk alone is much more fun than getting durnk in the presence of others.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Eddie Bronze

Forget drinking alcohol, I can't even so much as stand the smell of it. Head feels like it's in a table vice that's about to squeeze my brain into a pancake at even a faint sniff of it.

Way back in the day I workde wth a guy who got drunk realy easily. A bunch of people wnet out a couple of times afetr work (some girl was actualy trying to set me up with my wife) and there was this one guy who bough a pitcher of beer and was really really durnk after finish ing only one glass. He had to giv away th rest of hsi pitcher whcih worked out well for us.

[boobaloo]

Originally Posted by Tron_fdc

That is insane. 20 g's in 2 1/2 years??? Wow.

I quit smoking and went on to Copenhagen. Way easier on the lungs, but my dentist hates it. I love it though....nothin better than a big ol' dip before a hockey game.

You'll look great with a tracheostomy and a bunch of huge scars on your face when they have to resect your jaw and tongue to get the cancer out of it. Other than that, enjoy!

Seriously, you either quit or you didn't.

[Cheese]

I had the best motivator not to drink....

My parents were alcoholics and my sister joined them.

I tried drinking to excess a few times in my teens but hated puking on my shoes. I can go 2 years without a drink then have a glass of wine and literally feel loaded. I guess that makes me a cheap drunk. Hate Beer...always have, literally tastes like pi$$ to me.
I dont pay attention to the attention whores who feel that I must drink to be socially acceptable....they feel better when Im helping to bail them out of jail after pissing on a taxi in front of a club!
The company I work for now is full of young people who LOVE to drink to excess...I get a laugh out of them making asses out of themselves.

[pope04]

I've got some bad genes - my father was a functioning alcoholic - but I like to drink, usually only on the weekends and typically not to excess.

Once I quit for a year, and it really wasn't tough. I just wanted to see if I could do it, but I'll echo what a few of you've pointed out: There certainly is a stigma to someone that declines a snort or two in a social situation.

There were a couple references to cancer in this thread. I lost track of my dad, a lifelong heavy smoker, for a decade or so - no contact at all - and when I finally tracked him down, he was in a hospice in Penticton just riddled with cancer. Skin and bones. My siblings and I don't smoke, but just seeing him was a hell of a good incentive for my mum to quit. There are quite a few of my cousins and good friends that smoke, and I wish they could've seen my father in that state.

[Cawz]

Originally Posted by Eddie Bronze

Forget drinking alcohol, I can't even so much as stand the smell of it. Head feels like it's in a table vice that's about to squeeze my brain into a pancake at even a faint sniff of it.

Are you allergic to it?

[Eddie Bronze]

Originally Posted by Cawz

Are you allergic to it?

Not that I'm aware of. What would an allergic reaction to alcohol do? Wouldn't a rash break out or something? lol

[bcb]

I quit drinking when I was born again...

[Cawz]

Originally Posted by Eddie Bronze

Not that I'm aware of. What would an allergic reaction to alcohol do? Wouldn't a rash break out or something? lol

It hurts your head to even smell it? Seems like an odd reaction.

[Traditional_Ale]

I average about three pints a day. Never felt like it was a problem.