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Today’s question is: How can I stop drinking alcohol? Is it easy to stop using alcohol? This is a huge question with a very simple answer. It might not be the answer you are looking for. But it is the simple honest truth that you have to get your head around if you...

Today’s question is: Can alcohol be beneficial in some ways? It depends really on what you consider beneficial. It's certainly beneficial for the companies who make the stuff. It's beneficial for the pub and restaurant owners who sell it. It's beneficial for the...

Today’s question is: How long do for the effects of alcohol last in the body? Really this is a - how long is a piece of string? It’s got a couple of different angles to it when you’re looking at short-term effects or long-term effects. It’s all got to do with a...

I’m sure there are one or two. There’s definitely a correlation between drinking alcohol and what they call myocardial infarction – it’s a fancy name for a heart attack. I think one of the reasons for that is, it thins the blood. It only helps for people who have, who...

First of all, let’s just define alcohol poisoning. As soon as you put alcohol inside your system - alcohol is a toxin - as soon as it goes inside your system, you’ve got one form of alcohol poisoning. What we’re talking about in this video, is where a person has taken...

Today’s question is: What are the effects of binge drinking? I think first of all we have to define what we mean by binge drinking. Binge drinking is anything that takes your alcohol consumption above the levels that your body can handle. What that means is that your...

Why does anyone drink alcohol? Once you know that alcohol is causing your problem, why would you continue? Why would you drink alcohol for so long? I think these are questions that we all ask ourselves. It goes against our intelligence to think that we could do...

Do You Still Mix With People Who Drink Alcohol? This is a question that was asked in the comments section on YouTube. Do I ever mix with people who still drink alcohol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrs6MGC-7fc   You May Also Enjoy… 5 Healthy Tips for Tapering Off...

This is what Allen Carr's book, "The Easy Way to Control Alcohol" is basically about. He delves into all the excuses of drinking, the fun, the relaxation, the socialising, and breaks them down one by one. This video is my own version, with my own experiences, and...

Stress doesn't make us turn to alcohol, it's the done thing in our culture. It's what we turn to automatically… I was watching an episode of Once upon a Time on Netflix, program aimed specifically at children. When some of the characters went through a stressful time,...

There are absolutely loads of changes that will happen to you and to your life once you stop drinking alcohol. Many of them will be life changing. One of the thoughts that you will have once you stop drinking will be why didn’t they do this sooner. I’ve asked myself...

Have you quit drinking alcohol yet? If you have, why did you do it? If you haven't, why not? What's holding you back? We all have our reasons to quit. If you're like me, you have a hundred different reasons to quit. It might be that one big, or small, reason which...

Stepping across that line and quitting alcohol cold turkey can be difficult. I always recommend that in the preparation stage, between two weeks and the month before you stop drinking, that you gradually reduce the amount of alcohol that you are drinking. This is...

Some people expect that they will find someone in their lives that will make all the pieces of the puzzle fit. A symphony orchestra will play music wherever you go, those will scatter every time you walk down the street, and you will live happily ever after. Sometimes...

Consuming “Excessive” amounts of alcohol is a red herring. It’s distracting and misleading.Here’s what it means to ‘binge’:UK: 14 units per week… Eight men/6 women… Single sessionUS: men five drinks, women for drinks… BAC 0.08 g percent or above…Let’s get clear here,...

I started smoking when I was 12. I stopped when I was in my early 40s. So, all in all, I smoked for over 30 years. Roughly around the same amount of time I drank. The difference between smoking and drinking for me was that I always knew smoking was bad for me. From...

Let's face it, alcohol is good at dulling the pain. You've often seen it with old westerns or war movies, someone gets shot, there is no anaesthetic, so the wound is doused liberally with whiskey, and the rest is poured down the throat of the individual being treated....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV3pV15GV5w   What Should I Do If I Think I Have Liver Damage Caused by Alcohol?   You May Also Enjoy…   Is the Pain in My Liver a Sign of Alcoholic Liver Disease? Alcohol and Fatty Liver Disease: Symptoms, Cause, Effect, Outlook 5 Ways...

Quitting drinking alcohol is a life changing alteration that you can make overnight. Most of us overthink the actual stopping drinking part of it. There's not much to it. Once you don't put any more alcohol into your mouth, you've quit. You've done the job you set out...

What is going to happen inside your body once you quit drinking alcohol? The short-term effects are the ones that people are looking for the most. Think about it. One of the biggest reasons why people stop drinking is because they are going through a certain amount of...

We are all subject to certain biases in our lives. One of the most destructive is known as the optimism bias, it won't happen to me. This is a belief that we, as individuals, will only see positive outcomes to the things that we do to ourselves. When we smoke, we will...

One of the most pertinent questions you can ask yourself when you are quitting drinking alcohol is why are you doing it? Is it just about stopping drinking alcohol? We all start this journey from a specific place within our lives....

I just watched an emotional video from Stephen Fry, a gentle man and scholar, saying, in his very own self-effacing way, that he had overcome (fingers crossed) prostate cancer. I don't know Stephen Fry personally. I'm not one for being shocked or going over the top...

One of the most surprising things from me when quitting drinking alcohol, once I started out on the journey, was how screwed up, topsy-turvy, my emotions had become. The effects of alcohol drinking creep up on you over many years. When you first drink alcohol, bang…...

This is a question I got about why the human body has not evolved to produce alcohol internally. I'm presuming that this question has to do with the "buzz" that one gets from consuming alcohol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81LvKJ5UYWI   Why Hasn’t The Human Body...

It's a bit difficult to describe the exact feelings associated with quitting drinking alcohol. If I had to narrow it down to one single word, that word would be "Liberating". In this video, I talk about some of the things that I had to go through and you might have to...

Today's video is called "How to Detox from Alcohol Fast?" When I'm talking about detoxing, I'm not talking about the getting rid of the physical effects of the alcohol, that simple… You don't put the alcohol into your mouth any more. Your body will take care of the...

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