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When you are thinking about stopping using alcohol, one of the things you are told is that the cravings might be bad. Maybe you know someone who has gone through it before and they want to share the horror that they went though. First, the cravings are mostly mental....

How much do we think about what we are doing to ourselves right now in terms of how those actions are going to shape our future? The future, hopefully, is going to happen for us. What you do right now is directly affecting the person you will become and the life you...

What's the best time to quit alcohol? What's the best time to make any change in your life. There's nothing you can do about the past, but the past does flow into the present. https://youtu.be/BpBjzwafftw

WHEN YOU ARE READY... here are 2 ways Kevin can help you stop using alcohol and begin your new Epic Journey!1. Join us at Habits UnpluggedHabits Unplugged will help you to stop using alcohol, leave it behind forever, and build the life from which you never want to...

What is the secret of getting ahead? What is the secret of getting anything done in this life? This is the first of a new series of short, to the point videos called AM Shorts. https://youtu.be/LI7LgV83XE4

How to get to the point where you don't care about alcohol any more...? There are many times in your new epic journey where you will not see alcohol as a problem any more... But when does that become a permanent state of mind? https://youtu.be/MBjrixJljyQ

As long as their is an alcohol industry funding research, 1 or 2 drinks a day is always going to be considered 'maybe' healthy. People need to start using their own reason instead of hoping to get leadership from those in power. https://youtu.be/q44UIv0qmug

Life with alcohol is just chaotic in nature and outcome. The cost of alcohol comes up all the time, but it’s not a great motivating factor in creating the necessary motivations to stop, at least up until a point. Most people don’t put a price tag on their habits. A...

Your liver is an essential organ and one that is barraged when you consume any toxin. It has a prime place in protecting your body from yourelf when you drink alcohol. And, although it's wonder organ in that it can regenerate, there's a limit to what it can take....

How can you have fun without the one thing we are told we need if we are to have fun? We need alcohol to feel good about ourselves, right? What is a celebration without our glass of bubbly? What is a party without our elixir of joy? Without alcohol, according to...

In response to the question I asked earlier this week, should acohol be legal, I got a lot of feedback here, on YouTube, and in Habits Unplugged. I really believe that it would be wrong for anyone to say you cannot drink alcohol if you want to. I think it's wrong for...

Should Alcohol Be Illegal is a question I get asked a whole lot. It's a perfectly good question to ask. When I stopped drinking, I certainly wanted all the alcohol to just go away and not come back. It's a pain in the arse to see it everywhere when you are not longer...

Have you ever tried moderating alcohol? I turned it into a hobby all of it’s own. I was a regular thing for me. I suppose it’s a natural part of the process of quitting. If we were living in a society where our norms weren’t so primitive in terms of poisoning...

Stress is a killer, no doubt about it. But we live in a society that values high levels of being able to cope with stress. If your threshold for stress is high, it's a dead cert that you can get more stuff done. In fact high stress is a recipe for accelerating your...

There's a massive metaphorical red button in your life right now... It's got reset written across the top of it in big bold white letters. Why aren't you pressing it? https://youtu.be/7Eugbd9TviE

Alcohol deemed an essential service… and cigarettes… And in some countries cannabis… It’s no real surprise is it? You can call people addicted, but the bottom line is simple: People are dependent. When they don’t get their fix, what is going to happen? I know people...

Here’s a video for this alternate universe we are living in right now. Quitting drinking alcohol was by far the best decision I have ever made in my life. Staying away from the poison is something that doesn’t come hard to me now, but being away from alcohol is...

Today’s video is from my perspective on what is happening in our world right now. It’s a crazy time for everyone. There are many people who are under severe threat over this, but most of us aren’t. Our biggest problem comes when it comes to giving it to other people...

If I Can Stop Drinking Alcohol On My Own - Why Am I Still Drinking? This is a question I used to ask myself over and over. The answers I got, the ones I gave myself, were always the ones I wanted to hear, the ones that made me feel better about my alcohol use and made...

I can’t remember what my best day would have been when I was drinking alcohol. I’m not sure I want to remember. I don’t even remember what I would have said when I first stopped using alcohol. Probably something really general like feel healthy or at peace. When I...

What is it that keeps someone talking about alcohol, day after day, for years after they have stopped drinking the poison themselves? Why not just move on and start doing something else? Isn't that just what is so bad about AA, the constant reminders of the life you...

Here are 3 of the biggest reasons why people get stuck with their addictions. This reasoning is based on my one on one coaching clients and the members of our Habits Unplugged program. Here's 3 Reasons People Are Stuck With Their Addictions...

Today's video is about some of the essential mind hacks that will help you on the road to getting rid of this appaling poison from your life. Wishing you all the best of good fortune... Kevin 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u5iLOnloSw [powerpress] 5 Of The Best...

What are the most important factors in quitting alcohol? Planning? Right time? Right place? Right frame of mind? Is it getting rid of fear or anxiety? What about making your environment just right so you aren't enticed by any unforeseen temptations?...

There are many things in life that you don’t need to know. They are of no use to you and can actually prevent you from learning the things you need to know to get to the best version of yourself. Following me so far? Good. For most of us, the amount of things we don’t...

It’s true: with every drink of alcohol you take, you are reducing the quality time you get to spend on this planet. You might be saying, we are all running out of life…and that’s an undeniable fact. But I’m not just talking about life, I’m not just banging on about...

It felt very strange to be counting days again after so long. And I couldn't believe how many days had passed since my last day of alcohol use… I feel like my drinking was in another lifetime. And it was... I was another person living a completely different life....

If you want to stop drinking alcohol and change your life, you might want to give our Habits Unplugged quit drinking program a go. You can get a seven day trial for only $1. We don't just help you to quit drinking alcohol, we also help you to move towards the best...

I hope you all had a great Christmas. I am just heading into my eighth year on my journey, “No Alcohol Required”. At this time of year, I always reflect on that pivotal point in my life that set me on the track I am on today, how my life could have been completely...

Following my trip to New York to appear on the podcast of Ed Mullins, President of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, I wanted to offer a video from my persective. Hopefully this can help someone else who is also having thoughts of a suicidal nature....

Should you stop drinking alcohol right now and risk a blue Christmas? Or is it the exact time you should be thinking about sleighing your bad habits once and for all. In this video I talk about the benefits of pushing yourself right now, the reasons why so many people...

Let me ask you a serious question: What if alcohol didn’t cause any physical damage? You can drink as much as you want and it has no effect on your liver, your kidneys, your heart, blood, brain, spleen, anywhere else in your body?...

When you are stopping using alcohol, can you drink non-alcohol beer? In this video, Kevin talks about the mental hurdles of stopping using alcohol and how drinking 0% alcohol can actually hinder the process of change, especially in the short term. I talk about my own...

Not long after I stopped using alcohol, I worked out that I was saving about $12000 a year, and that wasn't including all the money I was wasting outside of my drinking or the money I wasn't earning because of my life choices. In this video, I wanted to look at things...

One of the most common misconceptions about stopping drinking alcohol is that you are giving up anything. One YouTube commenter said “So basically give up all the things you enjoy, lol”. Where do I start on that? I used to be that way, think that way... The greatest...

When a young guy has been binge drinking for 4 months, what’s the best advice to give them? When they are fearful of alcoholic hepatitis or some other serious illness, what should they do? When they are getting blackouts and other serious consequences, what is their...

I was thinking about the amount of miles I have driven in my life to get to the spot I am right now in my life, thousands upon thousands. It’s also a good exercise, if you are an alcohol user, to think about how much alcohol you have drank in your life to get you...

Todays Video: Hit By A Bus While Drunk I have heard so often, throughout my life, about people drinking or smoking or doing whatever risky shit they are doing, and using the excuse - Well, you might get hit by a bus on your way to work tomorrow… you have to enjoy life...

Today's video is about the compromising positions that alcohol users put themselves into because of their alcohol use. I'm not just talking about the compromising positions that we get into while drunk, but how your life is compromised in the long term because of your...

I've tried so many other drugs in my life. Little did I realize, through all those years, that LIFE itself supplies the biggest high. I just had to allow myself to feel it, experience it, and then build the courage to follow that high for the rest of my life. Bring it...

What do you do when you are drinking because you feel socially isolated or experience anxiety when meeting others? I know the feeling well...It was one of the biggest reasons I got into using alcohol when I was young. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7UpmKUWshY Share...

Here's this week's video. There is a big difference between having a problem with drinking alcohol and you thinking or believing you have a problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx6lKkNf5_I Do you think you have a problem with alcohol? Let me know what you think in...

I wasn't sure I would be able to get a video up for you today, but the internet in Andorra is fantastic, the veiws are great, and I couldn't resist doing something while I was up here… I was out of the door this morning just after six. There was just about enough...

Every so often, somebody asks me about moderation… "Do you think it's possible to moderate alcohol?"… "Is moderate drinking possible for other people?"… https://youtu.be/FC6HWFXrpwU These are logical questions when you are faced with the discomfort of stepping away...

Do you have a problem with alcohol if you drink alcohol every day? The first thing we have to establish is what drinking any alcohol does to you. Alcohol is a drug, it's a dangerous toxin that affects your brain and body. https://youtu.be/IPTueU1fthQ Click here to...

Today, the question is: How did you quit smoking and drinking completely? There is no magic technique or secret method behind stopping doing either of these things. Regardless of which 'method' you choose, there is always going to be one single common denominator -...

Today I want to talk about what to drink to release stress, besides alcoholic drinks. There is always a lot of discussion around the topic: drinking alcohol to relieve stress. The only thing that alcohol is ever going to do for you is mask the symptoms of stress for a...

How much has alcohol been normalized in our society? How embedded does the alcohol normalization go? And what damage has it done to us as a culture and individuals? How much damage has it done to you? https://youtu.be/ieF3Jw9HH88 Click here to download my new book for...

Today’s question is: Are alcoholic drinks good or bad for stress release? Do you really release stress by using alcohol, or any other drug for that matter? If stress is 'released', how long does it release it for? Does it stay 'released'? If not, what does stress look...

Today’s topic I want to talk about is just a study that I came across, it was actually a newspaper article, that highlighted this study. I think it was CNN or one of those newspaper articles. I’ll leave the link down below to the article and to the actual study...

For me, you have to first define what you mean by alcoholism? What’s the definition of alcoholism? There is no one definition of alcoholism, nobody – no matter who they are - in the professional, quit drinking alcohol world doctors, or the medical profession can pin...

If you look at some of the websites that are on the internet, you’ll find a lot of them talking about this thing of, they refer to it as, ‘Abrupt Alcohol Cessation’. So, it’s stopping abruptly and what happens to your body, after that. Some of this involves, trying to...

It’s just one of those things that people say to themselves. The first thing you have to do is look in the mirror and say, “Really? I deserve a drink? I deserve to intoxicate myself? I deserve to poison myself?” Why do you think you deserve that? What have you done to...

I hate these comparison questions, but, at the end of the day, alcohol affects the body; alcohol affects the human body in a very detrimental way. It’s not good for the human body. As soon as you put alcohol in, your body is screaming out to try and get it back out...

You can start out when kids are very young, and you can just, teach them in schools, you can educate them properly, just like we’re educated not to take some drugs. Heroin and stuff like that is not a widely used drug, like alcohol. I know alcohol is there, it’s in...

I think for most people they don’t even think about that in terms of their health, especially when they’re starting out. It’s one of those things that alcohol, the effects of alcohol and other drugs – not alcohol and drugs, but the effects of alcohol and other drugs -...

As far as I’m concerned, anybody who drinks alcohol has got a problem. It’s just the same as anyone who takes heroin has got a problem. If you look at this on a scale from zero to one hundred, say, for instance, anybody who's on this scale, takes the drug - so this is...

The first thing, I ask you is: Where is the confidence, when you’re drinking alcohol? Where is that? The confidence, the definition of self-confidence is: “Feeling of trust in one’s abilities, qualities and judgement.” So, the feeling of trust in one’s qualities; the...

The question today is: Why is just one drink, so difficult? Why is having one drink so difficult? Why is it so difficult to have a drink and say 'no' to the second? Why can't I just take or leave alcohol? Does it mean I'm an alcoholic? Am I dependent?...

Today’s question is: How bad is your drinking compared to other people? How much are you drinking alcohol in comparison to others? What are the consequences of that? Should you be worried? Should you seek help? If so, who can you get help from?...