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Never! I like [good] alcohol too much. That being said I'm not addicted to it. I can go a month without a sip and drink a case on Saturday night. Kinda depends on how I feel. In the winter I like a few shots with dinner. In the summer maybe a beer with dinner. On Monday evening I had some wine. Yesterday nothing.
 
As a young man, Bud, Jack and I were the best of friends. I never got to the point where I "needed" a drink, but I was where one, more than often than not, led to one too many.
Around 1978 I hadn't been married long, wife was pregnant with our first son and we were struggling bad. Trying to pay rent, groceries, doctors and prepare for a baby, well there just wasn't any money for booze.
One day I realized that I hadn't had a drink in about two years. I also realized how much better my life had been without it. So I never took another. ;)
 
I never went to rehab, never any trouble breaking any laws.

Sat next to Mike at the bar always, he was about 65 years old at the time. Mike worked at the Naval installation, went to work every day, and in his off time he was always in the bar.

One day I looked at him and thought, his whole life is in that glass.

At that point, I realized I was becoming Mike, just give me a little more time and I will be his twin.

I do occasionally have a beer or cocktail when eating out, or at weddings etc.

But, no more hangovers.:)
 
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Grayfox said:
As a young man, Bud, Jack and I were the best of friends. I never got to the point where I "needed" a drink, but I was where one, more than often than not, led to one too many.
Around 1978 I hadn't been married long, wife was pregnant with our first son and we were struggling bad. Trying to pay rent, groceries, doctors and prepare for a baby, well there just wasn't any money for booze.
One day I realized that I hadn't had a drink in about two years. I also realized how much better my life had been without it. So I never took another. ;)
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That's exactly why I quit smoking. Put that ten bucks a week in the kids' bellies instead of setting it on fire.
 
I applaud all of you that quit because you either needed or wanted to. For some, I know it's not easy.
For the last 30+ years, I've had my allotted 4-6 beers a day.
The object is not to drink them all at once and see how fast you get to the snot-slingin', knee-walkin', commode-huggin' stage but to pace yourself.

I usually have two with lunch, two with dinner and two while watching documentaries about Shouldazagged's horrible macrame accident.

Early on, I watched guys get so marinated they would confess to the Lindbergh baby to get another drink. I told myself; that would never be me. So far, so good.

I do love me some beer.
 
I'm glad you can do that, and don't begrudge you the pleasure.

I can't. I have a different brain and body chemistry--this has been exhaustively studied scientifically--and process alcohol differently from normal drinkers. For me, to drink is to hasten my death and destroy my relationships with others.

I don't want to go back there.
 
Although I drink a lot less than I did when I was younger, I see no reason to stop entirely.

I enjoy a glass of wine after dinner.

I bought a bottle of Smirnoff's Silver Crown for New Year's Eve. Just finished it.

I'm not sure I could survive America in 2015 without alcohol.
 
Never had any issues with alcohol or tobacco. Thank You God!

I worked several small towns when I was on the road. Bars are a real mainstay in rural Montana. They are the local morning coffee stop, a place to use a phone, the local gossip source as well as simply the social hub for many small communities. But unfortunately they sell alcohol too.

I can go on and on relating the death, injury, broken families and all sorts of negative situations regarding alcohol. But it doesn't do any good.

My admiration goes out to those of you with an alcohol issue, who defeat it every day and maintain a sober life. The rest of you that HAVE to consume X amount each day. For you.... I simply shake my head as I'm happy I am not in your situation.
 
It could have been like that for me, but instead, back in 1972 I went for the evil weed. Then, after many years, and two embarrassing arrests, I got fed up. Fed up with being clumsy and stupid, fed up with feeling like a criminal, fed up with some of the people I had to deal with, fed up with hiding something. I just quit, and never even took another toke. Never wanted to. A few years later, pitched the cigarettes the same way. If you believe in your own will, you can accomplish great things. So I am able to enjoy a little alcohol, mainly because I picked another substance to abuse.
 
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We didn't have rehab back in the Seventies. Back in the Seventies, rehab meant you stopped doing coke, but you kept smoking pot and drinking.
 
I realized several things.....

My health was awful....
I had a boy to take care of.....
When I started, I couldn't stop.....
It was starting to affect my life....
I almost died from congestive heart failure...
I saw how much time I was wasting....
I saw how much money I was wasting....
I got to where I was hanging around the wrong people....
I didn't give a **** about anything any more.....

As a result of all this I made some promises that so far I have been good on. Booze and tobacco went out with one of those promises.
 
September 1983 I drank my last case of Blue Ribbon. I had had enough, couldn't hold anymore. I have never had the urge to drink another one. I consider myself lucky or maybe determined to accomplish that. My sober world is much better than the other one I was living. Good luck to all---
 
My dad always warned us boys to stay away from places with red lights over the door, or in the window.

Dad also told us about the time he quit drinking, quit smoking, quit gambling, and quit chasing women, all at the same time. Swore it was the worst 45 minutes of his entire life.
 
Back in the day, I made the rounds hunting companionship for a few years before I realized I was spending a lot of money and heading toward a grim future. Now, I have a drink or two nearly every night, but not at bars. Most bars are too loud to have a conversation anyway. Today, it's maybe a couple of drinks in the hot tub to help erase the back ache before bedtime.
 
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