I have just watched a video that absolutely shocked me and felt compelled to share it with you below.
As we all know alcohol badly affects your health and immune system, and that’s what this video is all about. You’ll discover the secrets to an unshakable immune system (And the purpose of this immune system is to keep you healthy and protected).
There are quite a lot of different treatments that deal with the problems related with alcohol dependence. The treatments available for this problems can be put into the following categories…medication to reduce withdrawal symptoms and stop alcohol cravings, professional counseling to support relationship issues and education and support to stop drinking.
The previously mentioned methods are normally the ones that are recommended although a new drug has just come onto the market called chemical Revia [formerly Trexan], Vivitrolnaltrexone. This drug is normally administered by the form of an injection about once a month , but it is also available now as a pill.
The way Naltrexone works is by confusing the part of the brain that is responsible for making us feel good while under the influence of alcohol or other drugs. It basically numbs the pleasure effect that alcohol gives us and can be either taken on its own or as a combination drug with other alcohol dependence drugs.
Recent studies have shown though that Naltrexone is most effective when its use is combined with counseling. It has also been proved that Naltrexone drastically reduces the risk of relapse after having managed to quit drinking.
When it comes to men who have a long track record of alcohol dependence this treatment is not so effective. As with the majority drugs there are possible side effects and Naltrexone may cause dizziness, nausea and fatigue as well as headaches and the tendency to feel sleepy, anxious, or nervous.
These treatments need professional backing and you may be interested in hearing what other people have to say on the subject. You will be amazed at just how many people share their experiences at the stopdrinkingadvice blog, so head on over and see how the blog can help you.
Well then, why can’t people stop drinking? The first reason is fear. They are afraid of what they are going to do without alcohol in their lives. Much like a smoker quitting cigarettes doesn’t know what they’re going to do without a cigarette in their hand. But, although a smoker is endangering their lives, a drinker alters the way their brain thinks, and does things, and acts in ways that are inappropriate and unacceptable. A cigarette doesn’t do that to you. You don’t leave your purse in a bar because you had a cigarette. Or a pack of cigarettes.
A drinker can easily drive home on the wrong side of the road, sideswipe the garage door, and yell and scream for scrambled eggs and cheese! And then have to get up and go to work in the morning. So why not stop? Number one, it’s usually an addiction, so it’s not as easy as it sounds. Number two, without the proper guidance, it’s very hard to do alone. Number three, who wants to not only have to quit doing something they love to do, but do it in front of strangers, as in a twelve step program?
It is likely that the stress of her husband’s nine-month terminal illness caused her to fall back into heavy drinking. It is only three months since his death, and she is probably using alcohol to numb her grief. It is also possible that she may feel humiliated and ashamed that her excessive drinking is apparent to others, and she just wants to avoid the issue entirely.
There are two positive factors in this scenario: that she managed once to quit drinking for several years and that she continues to visit her physician on a regular basis. I would suggest that it would be counterproductive at this time to confront her about her drinking. It would be unfortunate to drive her away from medical contact and lose her trust. Instead, the focus should be on her grief and how she is coping with the loss of her husband. Bereavement counselling should be offered.
Can I drink alcohol if I am pregnant? No. Do not drink alcohol when you are pregnant. Why? Because when you drink alcohol, so does your baby. Think about it. Everything you drink, your baby also drinks. Is any kind of alcohol safe to drink during pregnancy? No. Drinking any kind of alcohol when you are pregnant can hurt your baby. Alcoholic drinks are beer, wine, wine coolers, liquor, or mixed drinks. A glass of wine, a can of beer, and a mixed drink all have about the same amount of alcohol. What if I drank during my last pregnancy and my baby was fine? Every pregnancy is different. Drinking alcohol may hurt one baby more than another. You could have one child that is born healthy, and another child that is born with problems.
Set a positive tone. When your teen is ready to drive, let him know that you think he will be a great driver. At the same time, grant privileges slowly so you can add more as your son or daughter demonstrates they are ready for them instead of having to take privileges away when your trust is violated. Teenagers love to test their parents and in fact it is their job to do so. It is the parents’ job to set clear rules and to hold teenagers responsible when they are violated.
Consider rewarding your teen if he or she is accident-free for a certain period of time and remove restrictions when you find they are no longer necessary.Sign a Contract. The best way to lay out the rules you expect your new driver to follow is to put them in a contract you both will sign. The contract should cover such things as the number of friends who can be in the car with the new driver (most likely one), what time the driver must be home on school nights and weekends, responsibilities for gas, insurance and car maintenance and the mandatory use of seat belts for all passengers.
Alcohol when taken in moderation is a nice way to relax or enjoy a social engagement, where when alcohol becomes a problem it can effect everyone who is close to the alcoholic. Some things that can tell a person they may be having a problem with alcohol are: – worry over not having alcohol or money to buy it – hiding alcohol so others do not know you have it – often wishing to be drunk or get drunk faster – unable to stop drinking once started – hearing others comment on your drinking Alcoholism should always be taken seriously. If you or someone you know has a drinking problem professional help is available in every community. Recognizing the problem is the first step to finding a solution.
At the very least stop drinking 4 – 6 hours before going to bed. This grace period will allow your body a chance to for the effects of the alcohol to wear off and reduce the effects that it may have on your sleeping, helping you to sleep without snoring.Sedatives such as sleeping pills behave much in the same way as alcohol, and amplify the affect if you take them while drinking, causing your body to relax its muscles and inducing many of the same symptoms as alcohol.
When you snore, you not only do you hurt yourself – studies have shown that a spouse, or significant other, can lose up to an hour of sleep per night. Causing them not only to be ‘cranky’ in the morning, but potentially destroying your relationship. So, don’t just do it for yourself – do it for your loved one!
And no, drinking beer is not the same as drinking water unfortunately. Beer has a lot of calories, and the first place it goes is around your mid-section. By the way, this doesn’t mean that you have to stop drinking alcohol all together. Just control your intake as you would your diet. Exercise will not only help you lose your love handles but also help your posture as it will strengthen and stabilize your core (including your abs).
So, if you have been suffering from some minor back aches or even chronic back pain, you may find that by engaging in exercise it may dissipate or disappear forever. By the way, if you only engage in ab exercises without any aerobic or resistance (weight) training, you may find your love handles growing larger! Yikes! This is because your muscles are growing yet your body fat percentage is staying the same. By the way, you don’t have to train like a marathon runner or a bodybuilder to lose those love handles. Start out by doing small things, like walking to the local store instead of driving; or taking the stairs instead of the elevator or the escalator. But, if you want to seriously transform your body (not only losing your love handles but shedding a ton of body fat) then you will need to get serious and do some intense workouts.
Unfortunately the majority of alcoholics just never get help in time, and refuse to reach out for help until it is too late. If only they had just realized that they had indeed had a problem and that at least somebody had managed to have to perseverance to get the message through. Sometimes though a tragic stories can lead to help other people and even react if they are able to see the same thing happening in their own life. Obviously those who suffer most are an alcoholics direct family so as we all have family this story should be easy enough to relate to.
Mr Jones woke up one summers morning to find his 60 year old wife had passed out in her bed. She was only 60, didn’t have cancer, no heart disease, just severe depression, due to the fact that her children had moved away and leaving her no grandchildren close by, and her life became empty and she just felt worthless and slowly lead towards depression.
Her husband was not a very loving man and wasn’t really up to the job of being a good listener. On the contrary, he would put her down, criticize her feelings and managed to distance himself from her dilemma. So Mrs Jones began to look for comfort elsewhere, and due to her lack of real friends in her life, she found something that she thought would help – Alcohol.
Why Alcohol? It makes you forget and the problems just disappear making it the perfect solution for a depressed person. Unfortunately Mrs Jones didn’t stop drinking for 21 days until one morning she just didn’t wake up due to her comatose state. During her stay in hospital her family were only interested in getting her to stop drinking alcohol, and not affronting the issues that most worried Mrs Jones. You see, she was still under the illusion that without alcohol her life would remain a dark existence, so she ended up not even wanting to talk to any of her family.
After 3 weeks in hospital it was decided to let Mrs Jones return home to her husband, who was under strict instructions not to let her drink. Mrs Jones was in a desperate state, and later said she was planning suicide, but then that very morning the phone rang. It was Mrs Jones son Peter with some good news. His wife was pregnant and so they had decided to return home as they would need Mrs Jones help with the other Grand children. Well suddenly Mrs Jones life was turned upside down and she suddenly had meaning given back to her life. Even though she had to wait several months for their return, she was a new women.
The moral behind the story is twofold really. First, alcohol is not a solution to depression and secondly if you do know an alcoholic personally, ask them what the matter is and act accordingly. Even if you can get their problem met half way it could prevent a tragic end.
I have paid a lot of attention recently to just what the symptoms of alcoholism are, how an alcoholic can recognize that they are indeed addicts and not just heavy drinkers and also just how much damage alcohol can cause to family relations as well as causing a negative effect to social behavior leading to complete isolation to the rest of the world.
Alcohol will literally take control of your brain and thinking capacity to such a degree that only alcohol will make you feel good about yourself from the moment you get up to the moment you pass out later on in the day. It is a behavior pattern that can only lead to disaster whereby alcohol leads you to believe that life just isn’t worth living without a continued relationship with alcohol.
Once this point is reached in an alcoholics life, it always appears to signal alarm bells from within, which is probably the last chance there is to actually quit drinking alcohol, so this is where I want to help in giving advice for those first few days before and after quitting drinking.
To reach that critical decision the need to visualize the importance of your life to the people arround you and hold the belief that if you change your life, you can also help to improve their lives as well as there really isn’t a better gift than that of giving. Set a day within reason and try to reduce the daily amount of alcohol consumed and make sure that you wake up to an alcohol free environment as well as having everything you need at home for at least a week.
Now alcoholism is a disease and illness that warrants you having time off work so make sure that you have previously been issued with a Doctors certificate, as losing your job won’t help at all in your efforts to quit alcohol. You won’t feel too good for the first few days and you may be best off just staying in bed until you really have the desire to get up and see what awaits you.
Family and friends as well as support groups will be your new partner of life and they will no doubt give you all the support to make you realize that you have made to right decision to quit drinking alcohol. After about 72 days you would have virtually alcoholism, but beware of feeling over confident and thinking that just one quick drink would be a nice treat for all your effort.
Every day is crucial during the first 3 weeks and you will meet a different challenge every day, so make sure that you take the necessary time to get back to work, and if you continue to feel the same anxieties in life then you may need to take difficult decisions that will relieve you of any stress or pressure. Remember only you are your family are important, so even if it means reducing your standard of living drastically it is your life and future we are talking about.
Cheap Alcohol is a real threat to the stability of any modern day society and using alcohol as a consumer commodity to attract more customers should make Governments react to make it slightly more difficult for alcohol abusers to get their drug.
It is possible that the UK will react as they did with tobacco prices that have soared over the last 15 years and together with the strict “No Smoking” laws, smoking is no longer the number one killer in the UK. Making alcohol more expensive would also help to reduce deaths related to alcohol consumption, but in Politics things don’t just happen over night, although becoming an alcoholic does.
Money – Money is not really the major reason to stop drinking alcohol, but it is something we all worry about and alcohol will no doubt eat away at your monthly budget. Often alcohol leads to other addictions like gambling and smoking, so if you stop drinking alcohol you manage to save quite a big chunk of money that you probably could do with right now. Money probably doesn’t lead to happiness, but it certainly does give stability and helps to take life with a certain ease.
Family – Alcohol is a terrible addiction , so that does not necessarily mean that everyone reacts in the same way, but alcohol can and will take over your life. So that means that your family is no longer your main priority in live, and that really is the road to disaster. Family unity really is the most fundamental factor in giving life a real meaning, so don’t mess with that or you really will experience the darker side of life. Just think how so many children suffer through the presence of alcohol in their homes. Don’t add to this sad state of affairs and believe in a better life for yourself and the rest of your family.
Health – You really don’t want to know the amount of fatal diseases that alcohol can cause and you already know that we only have one liver and one heart. So you can see that our health is under serious threat from the social disease of alcoholism. Drink alcohol free beer and enjoy the taste without the fatal consequences of alcohol,
Stability – Alcohol may start out to be part of our day to day life and you might even be able to get away with a few drinks while at work. But it’s a slippery slope and sooner or later you will get caught. Once you have lost your job for drinking alcohol, you will find it extremely difficult to get another job and the consumption of alcohol will increase.
No future – Well, I think you can see that if you drink alcohol and alcohol starts to make your decisions for you, you have lost a very important battle for everything that is most important to you in your life, and there is only one way out – stop drinking alcohol! If you can carry on through life and alcohol is well under control and your family unity is not at risk, then enjoy but be alert for other people that may need some good advice to stop drinking alcohol.
Basically if this question is on your mind it is more than likely that you do have a drinking problem. If other people in your life are telling you that you have a drink problem, well they’re probably right. If you have experienced a negative reaction to your alcohol consumption habits and have then continued in the same matter, then listen – you do have a drinking problem.
The positive side to having in a drinking problem is that the majority of people can just stop drinking alcohol with self determination. So many people that drink regularly will reach a point that they get into trouble while drunk, and the next day they decide to just wipe the slate clean and to continue on with their lives without consuming alcohol.
The problem comes that there a few people that can’t get past the second day without having another drink. The drinking problem is now a real one that would fall into the category of Alcohol abuse or Alcohol dependency. The problem comes if people consider this to be normal behavior, for whatever the reason and now we have reached the point of becoming an alcoholic.
Having a drinking problem affects both you and your family, but the good news is that there is help at hand. First you should see your Doctor who will advice you which specialized health care centers can help you to stop drinking. Rehab centers and Alcoholic Anonymous are also excellent medical institutions that have helped so many people to cut alcohol out of their lives.
You will also find many forums and blogs on the internet that help to giving you the necessary will power to carry on with an alcohol free life, It is so important to relate to people that suffer from the same illness as you as a lifeline to carry out a normal life without alcohol messing things up again.
In today’s society it is so important that children are taught the dangers that both drugs and alcohol can present to their lives. Parents need to get more involved with educating their children and make them understand that Alcohol isn’t all it is made out to be and that it is a serious threat to our health.
Get the facts first and you will find the Internet a very useful learning tool, as it is basically the largest Library in the world and there are several excellent online guides to the affects of alcohol on both our health and our lives.
It is always a good idea to teach them early as they are about to become teenagers and before other kids start to give them the wrong ideas about alcohol. Give this total parent backing, so Mum and Dad should be giving the same advice on just how alcohol can ruin the rest of their lives if they get into this bad habit at a young age.
Make it a relaxing affair and make sure you let them participate too, just so you know what they have been learning from other children. It must be made clear that alcohol is a drug and therefore it is addictive, meaning just one glass of beer could be the cause to a young child becoming an alcoholic.
It must be made perfectly clear too that they should never accept alcohol or drugs from anyone at school, and that such eventualities should be reported to you. That though will require a bond of trust with your children, so make sure they realize that you really do trust them and then they will find it easier to confide in you.
Student surveys reveal that when parents are prepared to listen to their child’s feelings or problems, the child is often more likely to stay off drugs or alcohol. If your child has a sudden change in character or in some way not their normal behavior, then seek with drugs and alcohol, seek professional guidance immediately.
Remember the best education is provided through setting a good example, so make sure that you limit your own habits and that alcohol is not accessible at home. The right environment at home is the key for your children future as alcohol or drugs will only end up reversing an exemplary family union.
There is quite a high proportion of drinkers who although have alcohol related problems, are not in fact alcoholics, meaning that quitting drinking will not necessarily mean that they require any medical treatment or even AA group support. That is great news for a lot of people who have no idea that stopping drinking alcohol isn’t that complicated.
Statistics actually show that people who attempt to stop drinking, do not receive any third party support. How do they do that? you may ask, well it is just a matter of will power to change or reduce bad drinking habits. One thing that heavy drinkers have in common is that they all know other heavy drinkers and they may just be inspired to do the same as another heavy drinking friend.
What might this really mean in a real case study? Well, having a drinking problem will not necessarily result in expensive medical bills and attending AA meetings can be avoided. That includes alcohol drinkers who are chemically dependent on alcohol on a daily basis as alcoholism is a disease that is more complex than just a craving for alcohol. These heavy drinkers may require medical assistance at first to help with alcohol detox, but with just a little bit of Willpower, they can manage on their own for the rest of the way.
If you believe that you may fall into that category of heavy drinkers, and have the desire to cut back or even stop drinking totally, the Stop Drinking Advice guide will become your blueprint to achieve your goals on your own. See how other people have made the change to an alcohol free existence, hear what they had to experience through the initial stages, and the joy they now behold having been able to remove alcohol from their daily lives.
Alcohol is a leading family destroyer and needs to be checked fast, or the results for the whole family will be extremely painful and irreversible. If you know of any cases among family of friends, then take a step forward and make sure they get the stop drinking advice they need. Going alone is a daunting task and often delays heavy drinkers decisions to stop drinking alcohol. With just a little encouragement, heavy drinkers can change their lives and those of their family and friends, and you don’t know just how kind and helpful previous heavy drinkers become, so make sure they get this stop drinking advice that will benefit so many other people too.
