Well lets start first on how cutting down or quitting alcohol can and will improve your life, your health and you’ll begin to start to enjoy life again.

You see to cut down on your drinking or quit your drinking you need to have a goal to achieve. So if you want to your going to have to write down reasons for curbing your alcohol consumption. Here’s a few examples which should help you;

Are you seeking to improve your lifestyle?
Do you want to improve your relationship with your family and friends?
Are you looking to improve your health?
What makes you want to drink less?

A recent study showed and was performed on a hundred people. They got 50 people to write there goals down and the other 50 to do nothing accept try and achieve there goals. What the study showed was quite amazing, the first 50 people who wrote there goals down and went through them everyday over a period of 3 months, they found 85% of them reached there goals.

The other 50 they found that a very small percentage (8%) only achieved there goals. The things here is if you don’t know what you want or how to get there then you’re not going to reach your goals, like quitting drinking.

So if you want to quit drinking or cut down on your drinking you must first set yourself goals, but realistic ones. (Remember Drinking Does Not Control You, You Control Your Drinking).

If you’re looking for a good program to follow which will help you with setting your goals to help you quit drinking or cut down on your drinking then I can strongly advise you to take a look at stopdrinkingadvice.org

I have read some great reports from people who have tried there training methods out with amazing results. There even offer you a full money back guarantee if there program doesn’t work for you. They also have a free newsletter which gives you free tips on how to quit drinking.

Dear Friends
This is a true story of Carol Klein.

Carol now lives in Chicago, USA, and is now happily married to her husband, and is a mother of two wonderful daughters and one wonderful son.

Not everything as always been this rosy for Carol. By the early age of 16 Carol had began sampling different alcoholic drinks, and in her early twenties her drinking problem had began to spiral out of control.

Carol is now 38 and a reformed alcoholic. Like lots of us, Carol tried a ton of stuff to try and help her quit her drinking problem, but she saw very little results.

What you’re about to read is the transcription from a telephone conversation I had with Carol on February 1st, 2008.

Well let me tell you, my name is Jamie Gough and for the last 22 years of my life I’ve been an Alcoholic, yes I know it’s nothing to be proud of and yes if you look at it I’ve wasted 22 years of my life drinking Alcohol everyday to put it bluntly. As people used to call me a waste of space or a waste of a life!

I am now 65 years old and for the last 2 years of my life I have been Alcohol free, and to be honest I had no choice in the matter, "either give up or die" that is what my doctor told me. It took me about a mille second to make my mind up.

I was married and I have 2 lovely kids which I had never seen for 16 years. I look back it now and think to myself, how can I have been so stupid, not seeing my kids for 16 years, yes it was all my own fault, and please don’t feel guilty for me, that’s not why I’m writing this.

I like to basically tell you drinking isn’t and shouldn’t be part of your lives, if you want to enjoy the things in life which matter!

When my wife left me and took our beautiful kids with her I was 46 and drinking everyday, she kept telling me to "go and sort my problems out or I’ll leave and take the kids with me", and like always I thought I know what was best, and I’d always tell her "I don’t have a drinking problem".  Well that day came and I must admit that was the worst day of my life.

It was a bit like someone inserting there hand into my chest and slowly turning my insides round I think people call it a "gut wrench feeling". After that I took the easy option out, which is what 97% of people do with anything in there lives "the easy option", and I just kept on drinking more and more and I never even thought about my kids and wife anymore.

I do know that as my kids grew older, now my ex-wife would always tell them about me, she never said anything nasty about me to them, and I respect her for that.

I was the grand old age of 62, when I got a knock on my front door one morning, and there was the young tall lad stood there, smelling of vodka from the night before I opened the door, and asked "can I help you son?", and to his reply he said "are you Jamie Gough?" if so I’m your son. Well at first I thought this was some kind of joke, and after a long chat and looking at some pictures he’d brought round I’d released this was my son which I’d never seen for 16 years.

He’d come to tell me he was getting married, and asked me two very important questions.

1 - I’d like you to come to our wedding
2 - But you have to be alcohol free

My answer was, "I’d love to son". So the next day I went and so my local doctor and asked for his help, and that is when he said "either give up or you’re going to die". I guess you can’t be any more honest than that.

I tried every single thing out there you could think of, and to honest nothing seem to be working, and then my son came across this website stopdrinkingadvice.org I didn’t have much money so my son bought this for me. I had just over 2 ½ years to sort my self out and with the help of my son and this incredible audio and book I did it. It took  me 6 months, and I have never touched a drop since.

Yes it was a very long and very hard journey for me, and it was worth every single minute, nothing in the world can take that day away from me watching my son walking down the aile to get married, I just hope I’m still here to watch my daughter get married to.

So why have a I wrote this; One you are never to old in life to quit drinking or quit anything, and if a 63 year old can do it so can you. and the other well there are so many things in life which are far more important than having a drink, that’s the easy option, for once why don’t you try the hard option, the rewards are far greater.

- When you drink alcohol do you drink when you are depressed, sad, or alone?
- Are your family and friends very worried about you because you’re drinking to much?
- Does alcohol make you forget things?
- Are you always late for things because you have been drinking the night before?
- Are you always falling out with friends and family because of your drinking problem?
- Does your health suffer from your drinking problems?

If you have read the above questions and answered yes to any them, than you a have serious drinking problem, or it’s the beginniging of one. If you find that your health is suffering from alcohol then you need to stop drinking right now, as this could and will lead to an early death bed. Also seek advice from your doctor.

If you are reading this article then you either want to stop drinking now, or you want to cut down on your drinking habit

Here are three questions you should be doing to help you stop srinking now:

1 - You should write all the wrong and write reasons why you want to stop or cut down on your drinking habit.

ie: Is it for your health? Will it improve your lifestyle? Will it make you sleep better? Will it improve your family life. I am sure your list will be alot longer

2 - Goal Setting.

First let me tell you without setting any goals you’ll never stop or cut down on your drinking habit, it’s that simple. First you need write down small goals, like cutting down on your drinking habits, just maybe you can cut out drinking one night a week. The thing here is you need to start and get into good habits and get rid of the bad ones.

Ok now you need to write your goals down and have then in front of you as much as you can. Put them on every door in the house if you have to, or even have them on your refrigerator so you will read them before you open it.

Your paper should look something like this:

- Goal - 1: I will cut down on my drinking problem starting from ______________________
- Goal - 2: I will also not drink on (day of the week)
- Goal - 3: Week 2 I will not drink on two days of the week
- Goal - 4: I will always drive when we go out, so I can’t drink

You must fill these in at all costs.

3 - Always keep a Day to Day Diary.

I know this sounds very easy but you must do this every day and not miss any out. Make sure you set your goals for your first 4 weeks, and then have a look at then after 4 weeks have gone by and see the difference, trust me you’ll be very surprised by the results, I have done this myself when I was an alcoholic, and it works. It’s not easy but it’s very rewarding.

You could even make up your own drinking diary:

Anyone can stop drinking alcohol with the right help, it’s a simple process, but like I said you now need to get into the  good habits and get rid of the bad ones. Here are a few tips which will help you along your journey.

Stay At Home:
Try to keep a very small amount of alcohol at home.

You must learn to NO to Alcohol:
Learn to become a designated driver if you go out anywhere, also you don’t have to drink to have a great time, you’ll find people who a funny don’t drink at all. Try and stay away from the people who give you a hard time, remember it’s your life and not there’s that there posioning.

Always stay active:
This is a great way to stay away from alcohol, go and join a gym, walking club, or even take up golf. They all keep you very health and there all fun, plus it’s a great way to meet new people.

Try taking a break from alcohol:
This a great way to completely stop drinking alcohol altogether, just try and stop drinking one day a week and on that day try and find a different drink to drink, I found when I started doing this I started to feel healthier and this ment spending more time with the people I love.

Beware of the demons:
You will at some stage come across the demons, which are people trying to get you to drink, yes it hard to say NO, but just remember why you are doing this, because it’s not for them, it’s for you and your family and they come first in your life.

Never ever give up:
Bad habits are hard to break and it’s not easy to change things all at once, so don’t give up at your first hurdle. "Why do we fall, so when we get up we know next time not to make the same mistake". It’s not a race it’s about the end result SO DON’T GIVE UP.

If you would like a FREE REPORT on how to stop drinking alcohol try stopdrinkingadvice.org there simple and very easy to follow steps have helped over two thousand people cure there drinking problems.