I knew a guy that was alcoholic since at least age 17- WW2 vet...violent alcoholic. Once he got his own home he made a garden. Without fail every year starting around february he'd stop drinking cold turkey- and create lavish brilliant food gardens. Then he'd give arm fulls of beautiful fat vegetables to neighbors...he was this other person...

We looked forward to spring every year.

I had 2 jobs and decided my time was up for drinking. So I replaced my time off with work. Worked until I am tired and I would just sleep, never felt like drinking being that tired. It's been 3 and half years since my last beer and I don't plan on going back. I paid all my useless debt off, credit card, car, motorcycle, bought a small tractor and now have more money saved up than I thought I would ever have.

Go for daily walks. I had to stop drinking for a year and a half. No beer no liquor, now I can have a beer with a meal once in a while no problem. Still haven't had a drop of liquor, and it's been about 3.5 years

I've been off whiskey for 18 years now. I still crave it when I think about it and my mouth starts watering.

Don't take another drop. Discipline yourself. Go to the gym and do calisthenics, plyometrics abs other exercises without involving weights and your shoulder. Stretch. Etc

No, whiskey took a break from you.

I had a rotator cuff repair a few months back after about 10 years of just living with it. It still hurts when I use it too much, when the weather isn't right, when the stars align in just the right way. It's not the constant pain with sudden spikes of my arm being ripped off though. So, better.

The doc got his MRIs and said it's not too bad 35, 40 minute surgery and a bit of PT and you'll be fine.

Surgery day they tell me 35 to 45 minutes most of the time. After, the first thing I can remember is being wheeled to my truck and my wife saying "about time you got out." Being groggy as fuck this didn't click until about five minutes later.

Apparently, while the doc was working on me he got curious as to why the injury he was working on didn't match my pain ratings or his observations of my shoulder's behavior. He later told me that "I began to look around some and when I looked over the top of the joint it was clear what the real problem was, everything looked like a tiny bomb had gone off in your shoulder. I'm surprised you were able to use your arm at all."

The repair of the tendon took about 30 minutes. Then it took another three and a half hours to fix all of the bone spurs.

I have had pills of all kinds. Some work great, for the first few doses. Then they don't do shit within the week. Some pills "tone down" the pain some while eating at my stomach or giving me headaches. One pill took almost all of the pain but it also took my ability to function as a human. I wasn't high or anything like that. I was fully awake and aware, I just couldn't think. People would talk to me and I could hear the words but I couldn't understand that they were talking to me, or connect the individual words into a sentence that had an idea behind it. I was literally a drooling idiot.

Alcohol works, but it isn't long lasting. I haven't been a heavy drinker for a long time. Keep resisting. It's the only way to not fall further down that hole.

Now for the unpopular opinion. For me, the only thing that kills most of the pain without unpleasant negative side effects is marijuana. Now, unpleasant is subjective and I am not advocating anyone do what I do. Being mostly pain free is great and truthfully, I like getting high on occasion.

I had some pot that was given to me a while back. It was a small amount, probably about a weeks worth when I was young. I made it stretch for about eight months. I'd get a good buzz one to two times a week, sometimes more if I was doing heavy yard work like two acres of brush clearing.

I don't have any now and I don't plan to spend any money to get any more. If a situation arises that I can partake a puff or two I most likely would as long as there is nothing important coming up, or if I may have to drive.

Point being use what you want, just don't let it take away from other important parts of your life. Find the balance between too drunk and too much pain because neither are any good.

May you be content because happiness is limited and comfort is death.

youll get to the point where your body just cant handle the hangovers anymore, and then you will not want to drink anymore. youll see it as a waste of time and money and you will prefer to have your wits about you more often. you can do it. just keep trying

Im drinking Rum almost daily. Just at night. I dont wake up and drink. Feeling like shit in the mornings is getting old.

This entire thread reminds me of the protocols of the elders of zion. You should read about their view on controlling goyim through alcohol.

I always thought I would start working out again if I quit but with this fucking shoulder that aint happening now.

Take up swimming nigger. Or running. Btw how is your shoulder fucked?

Fair play for trying, sometimes it's not the substance but the habit itself.

It's always your choice and your agency to do the things you do. You can drink if you want or not drink if you want, it's up to you.

I was watching Jay Masters on YouTube last week, he was a heavy drinker up until 3 months ago when he had a medical emergency and ended up in hospital, it was touch and go. He hasn't smoked a cigarette or touched a drop since then and what he said in this livestream hit a chord with me. At the 6:25 mark someone asks him if he would start drinking again and he answered in a very thoughtful way, and said that he would like to have a drink, but he doesn't want to have a drink.

https://youtu.be/lXFHOytEEOw

Perhaps you could write down when you drink, write the date, what you drank and how you feel the next day, to have a clear indication of your relationship with drink and what it's doing for you.