Still here, been lurking.

[Micky]

I thought about Vodka as it's lower in calories but it doesn't get me the same kind of drunk as wine, beer and cider. I don't get that warm enveloping feeling. Smoking dope would be better but I gave that up a long time ago.

[KateG]

I can relate to it too. Wine is my weakness. I can quite happily have the odd g&t or v&t or a couple of bottles of lager and not want any more. But I cannot do this with wine. I have to finish the bottle and occasionally have to start another one too. Wine is the only alcohol I binge with.

The trick of only buying one at a time works for me, that way I cannot have more than one and cannot have it every day unless I go to the shops.

I know it makes me depressed, I used to be a happy giggly drunk but not any longer, it just exacerbates my low mood

I've had to go cold turkey for the last 9 days because I was on a type of antibiotics which cannot be mixed with alcohol (or I risked being violently ill). It has been tough, but showed me I can go without. My mood has still been low but I have slept better.

Really hope you can reduce your consumption &*(

[Micky]

Thanks Kate. I will try, if only for my beer belly : )

[mrmoody]

try antabuse or camprasol,they are both medications prescribed to stop drinking. although you have to keep taking them every day

[Micky]

I'll think about going down that road if I can't do it myself. Thanks.

[Zaf]

Wine was my evil too, occasionally strong cider

[KateG]

I think wine is such a social and "acceptable" drink that it creeps up on you and before you know it, the glass/bottle is gone and you're on to the next one.

I couldn't drink the volumes of lager needed to get me drunk anymore (my student days are long gone!) and I would notice if I'd had half a bottle of gin in a night and feel quite ashamed, but wine is just so accessible and I know that i and many of my friends use it to justify almost anything.... Bad day, good day, stressful day, easy relaxing day, all children and relationship stresses or celebrations, bbqs, sunny afternoons in a beer garden, birthdays, weddings, funerals, getting a job, losing a job, anything at all..... crack open a bottle of wine and it solves everything and anything

I guess what I'm saying is that wine is a trap that many many if us fall into &*(

[Zaf]

I think it is and somehow more comforting than spirits