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Make it Stop. Chapter Eleven

April 27, 2022April 27, 2022 0

Relapse Stopping drinking is a monumental task. It requires that I recognise specific unwanted behaviour of my mind as it occurs and then contradict it. I have to do this with force of will while my condition wields dopamine which […]

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Make it Stop. Free ebook download

March 24, 2022March 24, 2022 1

Make it Stop is written to help people to stop drinking and stay stopped. It is available to buy at Amazon and other sources and can be downloaded as an eBook (.epub format) for free on this page. Share this […]

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Make it Stop. Chapter One

February 21, 2022March 25, 2022 0

Hope Alcohol isn’t magical. If you put a sealed, chilled, bottle of white wine in front of me then I will feel the urge to reach out and take and drink it. This urge is not imaginary; it is very […]

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Make it Stop. Chapter Two

February 22, 2022March 25, 2022 0

Necessary, Possible and Worthwhile I didn’t stop drinking because I wanted to; I stopped because I had to. If I could have carried on drinking without all the bad things happening then I would have, but this wasn’t the case. […]

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Make it Stop. Chapter Three

February 23, 2022March 25, 2022 0

Cravings and Triggers Addiction is not simply a habit, it is habit enforced by chemical compulsion. My brain has about 85 billion neurons (brain cells) in it and each of these connects to about 7,000 others. Signals are passed between […]

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Make it Stop. Chapter Four

February 25, 2022March 25, 2022 0

Managing Cravings Whether or not I will drink at any moment boils down to an incredibly simple equation: – If the urge to drink exceeds the will to resist it then I will drink. There are two components here: – […]

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Make it Stop. Chapter Five

March 1, 2022March 25, 2022 0

Managing Resolve Stopping drinking is a contest between my reward system demanding that I drink and my determination to stop, but it is not a fair fight. My reward system operates at a primal level that is invisible to me […]

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Make it Stop. Chapter Six

March 2, 2022March 25, 2022 0

Self-sabotage The reward system sits in the subconscious part of my brain and it operates entirely automatically and invisibly. There is no conscious thought involved in its operation and it is not even directly connected to the parts of my […]

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Make it Stop. Chapter Seven

March 10, 2022March 25, 2022 0

Emotional Triggers If we drink frequently and heavily then our brain’s performance becomes routinely impaired, and it changes the way it operates to try and offset this. The principal action of alcohol on the brain is that it slows it […]

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Make it Stop. Chapter Eight

March 11, 2022March 25, 2022 0

Abstinence and Recovery Abstinence and recovery are two completely different things. Abstinence is stopping the consumption of alcohol whereas recovery is achieving a state of well-being wherein the desire to drink no longer arises. Recovery is not possible while I […]

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Make it Stop. Chapter Nine

March 12, 2022March 25, 2022 0

The Past There are so many appalling things I did while I was drinking that my mind was strewn with the litter of chaos and destruction. There were terrible things I did, things I should have done but did not, […]

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Make it Stop. Chapter Ten

April 20, 2022April 20, 2022 0

New Ways The world is a chaotic place that is often grossly unfair. There will always be times when I am dissatisfied with life and upset by it and I have to work my way through these times just like […]

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Cravings and triggers
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Cravings and triggers

January 29, 2022January 30, 2022 0

There was one thing about my drinking that I simply couldn’t understand. I was perfectly capable in every other aspect of my life but for some bizarre reason I could not control my drinking. I drank more than I wanted […]

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Is alcoholism genetic?
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Is alcoholism genetic or is it caused by our personal circumstances?

July 15, 2021January 30, 2022 0

The answer to this question isn’t either one or the other; the answer is “both”. Susceptibility to addiction is genetic, and activation of that susceptibility, where it exists, is environmental. Susceptibility to addiction is quite simple and specific. The adverse […]

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Do you need to stop drinking? Try these things

June 28, 2021January 30, 2022 0

Stopping drinking is really hard and anyone that says otherwise is talking out of their ass. But there are things we can do to help ourselves. Here are a bunch of things we can do that will help us get […]

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