Everyone knows that it is very difficult to quit drinking and it is almost impossible for many people. The wine glass was held tightly in his tenacious hand. Overcoming psychological addiction controlled by your own brain is a difficult task, because in most cases, the brain does not obey you, but your body obeys the brain. If the body wants to drink water, you will look for water. The body wants to eat. It sends a signal to the brain. It controls you and searches for food. The brain wants to drink a dose of alcohol, and you really want to drink. So why does our body, in fact, our brain have the desire to drink alcoholic beverages?
Why does the brain want to drink?
Here, we must look for when the connection between the brain and drinking begins to appear. Everyone can notice that the beginning of human drinking is mainly related to beautiful and bright events-holidays, weddings, birthdays, and company parties. Remember all the holidays you remember, which means your brain will only remember happiness, fun and good mood. If it has serious consequences due to excessive drinking, then it will happen the next day, and there are always excuses-they say, drunk, this will not happen to anyone, but it is interesting.
Many people have noticed that after a hard day of work, drinking a glass, then drinking a glass of wine, or even a light beer beverage such as beer, will relieve the pressure immediately, and the good mood will follow, and the fatigue will also disappear. Experts explained that alcohol is actually a narcotic, and the World Health Organization equated alcohol with drugs in 1975. Entering our brain, because it has almost no barriers in our body, it affects dopamine neurons, which are excited and start to produce dopamine, in fact, the hormones that produce happiness and pleasure. The brain perceives the beginning of this period and begins to associate it with drinking, which actually leads to a strong and stable positive psychological connection between drinking and the brain. Then, in order to get the same "pleasure", you need to drink more, and more often, because the sensitivity of dopamine receptors becomes more and more dull. Moreover, in fact, a person successfully enters the second stage of alcohol addiction. At this time, there is not only a psychological connection, but also a physical dependence on alcohol, which requires immediate treatment of alcohol dependence.
How to quit drinking?
Therefore, those who understand their "future", where they are living in frequent drinking, and want to get rid of this growing dependence, actually have to fight the brain itself, and the brain begins to produce stable psychological connections and needs to drink. It is to get some bright and quick "happy" moments after drinking.
Step 1-It is necessary to realize that the brain is actually our worst enemy!
All the problems we face in the first place stem from their depths (fear, anxiety, reluctance). This is the job of the brain. It creates obstacles for us, creates difficulties, forms habits and prevents us from coping with them.
After drinking, we get a large amount of dopamine secreted by the brain through contact with alcohol, which is a neurotransmitter responsible for happiness, euphoria and pleasure in the brain. This number is so large that it even conceals the happiest moment in our lives. This kind of "get for nothing" joy and pleasure flow comes from the influence of alcohol on the brain. Therefore, he obtained the pleasure of "cheap" through alcohol and developed a strong obsession with it. He tried to achieve—for example, "I want more of this happiness, I want more of this quick happiness, I want toQuickly relieve the stress in life". The easiest way is to drink, instead of trying to solve a mountain of difficult tasks, and then enjoy their solutions.
The second step-desire is the root cause of everything started!
Only desire can completely rebuild your brain and form the correct order in it. Only desire to obtain more "difficult" happiness, more "difficult" happiness, obtained after exerting a lot of strength, not just-I drink, "I feel good, I don't care about anything". Only by accepting the real desire to "win" happiness here and now can it interrupt the brain's desire to quickly accept "light" happiness. Because once you decide to quit drinking, you declare war on your brain, and at the same time you form an order of other "work" desires in your mind, and take a sober direction.
Step 3-Quit smoking easily! It's hard not to start over!
Don't start again. . . Sometimes it can be very difficult! This is why-detoxification is always a war. The brain ignites a strong desire to accept something and removes all obstacles. Your will is the only obstacle to drinking.
Ethanol (alcohol) is a powerful pleasure and euphoric stimulant in the brain. If you stop drinking, you will probably start to think how wonderful it is to drink beer, vodka or brandy now. Remembering alcohol is a pleasant thing, otherwise the brain will not remember alcohol, which brings him a lot of happiness and euphoria, and all of this, you will not be able to resist the desire to drink again. Here, you need to be able to treat alcohol as an adverse event, or be coded. Alcohol coding will help to relive this craving moment and provide a chance to get a negative impact from drinking.
4 steps-won't last long!
Therefore, this desire must be evaluated. . . on a 10-point scale. How powerful is desire (such as typhoon or storm). Rarely, when aware of the degree of desire, the scale will reach a strong 10-point desire. Therefore, based on the results of awareness, it is necessary to convert this less intense desire into other types of activities.
Begin to obtain simple and natural human happiness from life, work, family, hobbies, and communication with others. Never drink, or you will have to start all over again.
The more diverse your new entertainment, the faster your brain will adapt to low levels of dopamine. As we remember, alcohol will artificially increase the level of dopamine in the body many times.
Step 5-just throw alcohol!
We do not recommend quitting smoking and smoking at the same time, or giving up your favorite foods. If you do it at the same time, then the risk of collapse will increase many times, because when you give up everything, the brain will be more stressed than when you give up some habits or addictions. In the beginning, you can keep the rest of the bad habits.
Therefore, if you decide to stop drinking, please stop drinking. If quitting smoking is more important to you, then quit smoking. Put everything down at once and you will not be able to resist double or triple temptation. If you collapse, such as smoking, you are likely to collapse because you quit drinking.
Step 6-Don't get lost!
In the first week, the most difficult moment to stop drinking came. Fear, anxiety, and desire increase. Here, no matter what people say, it is difficult to cope without taking medicine. If you understand that the situation will only get worse, it is best to seek medical support from your doctor. Some drugs can indeed reduce the urge to drink, reduce stress and eliminate discomfort.
In this case, we strongly recommend that you contact the doctor at the medication center. They will help you choose the right life cycle system to stop drinking. Provide the medicines needed by the body and the best choice of vitamins and minerals. Use the latest medical equipment to control your health.
After all, the most important thing is not to relax and start drinking again.
Step 7-You need support!
If you need support, you can always contact the anonymous abstainers group. If we discard all conventions and reluctance, then it is obvious that people can help each other. Without support, we are almost helpless even in daily life. If you do not want to join an anonymous group for alcohol withdrawal, then you have the opportunity to contact psychological support services.
Step 8-Burn adrenaline!
Because the refusal to drink alcohol leads to a significant increase in blood adrenaline, it must be burned. Only through physical activity can you burn adrenaline without affecting others. Like everything in our lives, you need to start gradually. It would be better if you had the opportunity to exercise in the gym. If not, then a small outdoor walk or jogging is sufficient.
If you stop drinking, walk more, make friends, and take active rest.
By providing yourself with physical activity, you can not only help burn adrenaline, but also strengthen your muscles, nervous system, and health, and provide your brain with new tactile and physical sensations, forcing it to be distracted from the idea of alcohol. This extra "work" on the brain has a beneficial effect on movement along a waking and active waking life.
Reject alcohol completely, walk and travel more.
Go hiking and travel, the brain has nowhere to hide in the thought of alcohol. Replace and burn old memories of pleasant drinking with new impressions.
Step 9-You will succeed! do not doubt!
The important thing is to bear: sleep, nutrition, work hard to maintain a mood, and maintain a positive mood. In addition, this applies to everyone, because we all depend on something. This is why regimen is so important to achieve positive results. Only the regime can hone us to fight (first, with ourselves)
Step 10-Try to make yourself happy!
Being sober after drinking is boring enough. The world around us no longer pleases with colors and events, because they cannot interrupt the euphoric state of alcoholism. This boredom is also a product of our brain. Therefore, you need to constantly find yourself: a new hobby, interest, desire. Happiness is a product of our brain (just like fear). The brain can be customized, it's up to you.
Top questions about alcohol and their answers
Every time I give up drinking, I can’t restrain myself-it starts again, what should I do?
Quitting alcohol is very difficult. The neural connection established in the brain between the positive thoughts of drinking and the joy, pleasure, and euphoria derived from it cannot be destroyed without struggle. Alcohol is a narcotic substance, and without great effort, perseverance and willpower, it cannot drain its effects on the body from the body.
If you don't have enough willpower to resist alcohol, then you should treat coding as an opportunity to stop drinking.
If you are full of perseverance and strength to fight alcohol addiction, then:
- do not give up.
- Try to trick your brain because it is the main leader of your body. Treat alcohol as a serious toxic substance, and only remember the bad experience of drinking. Think of it as an extremely dangerous substance, drink it in disgust, with strong alcohol in your mouth, especially if it feels troublesome. Do everything for a purpose, so that you don’t drink.
- Started drinking small amounts. Just take a sip. Stick to this.
- For any alcohol advice, please translate your wish into your favorite non-alcoholic beverage, and drink for pleasure rather than alcohol.
Try to use all your knowledge and skills to fight alcohol addiction. Remember, alcohol controls your brain.
Can alcohol coding be part of alcohol dependence treatment?
Coding is usually included in the treatment process so that patients can spend coding time without drinking alcohol. During this time, you can usually improve your health, be broken by alcoholic beverages, restore family and labor relations, if they are violated by alcohol addiction, and their moral and physical recovery.
Can a person drink alcohol instead of a drunkard?
sure. There are many such people. They are well aware of the dangers of drinking a lot of alcohol. They don't let themselves get drunk "in the trash can", don't let themselves oversleep, don't let their wives quarrel, don't let themselves ruin their health and cause themselves to get into a lot of trouble. Even the person who is most resistant to alcohol addiction, if he drinks a lot of alcohol almost every day, he will soon develop the habit of drinking alcoholic beverages. If we think that alcohol belongs to a class of narcotics approved by the World Health Organization in 1975, then alcohol dependence is likely to cover almost all people who drink alcohol regularly. Therefore, only drink a limited amount of alcohol that does not cause addiction.