Many men, and often women, ask themselves the question - how to stop drinking alcohol on their own? Usually, such an awareness comes when a person realizes that it is impossible to continue living like this, notices problems in the family, loses relatives and friends due to an addiction. The desire is understandable, but are there any effective ways to permanently quit alcohol addiction? Consider possible medications and home remedies to help you quit drinking at home, without coding or medical treatment.
Instructions
Step 1
Before looking for ways to stop drinking, you will have to part with a dubious company of drinking companions. They will prevent you from keeping your word not to drink alcohol anymore, they will bring home drinks, invite you to visit, to bars. Some are helped only by changing phone numbers, and sometimes moving to another area, city.
Step 2
The second step is a change in lifestyle, search for new hobbies, household chores. Some are helped by communication with family, relatives, others are looking for a way out of the binge, plunging headlong into work. You can sign up for the pool, for driving courses, tourism, find a hobby for your liking. The main thing is not to be alone with problems in an empty apartment.
Step 3
The next stage is the search for like-minded people who have given up alcohol on their own or through treatment. Such interlocutors will be able to understand the desire to drink out of boredom or boredom, they will tell how they themselves quit drinking, and give reasonable advice. The example of friends or colleagues will not let you break loose in difficult times. A good tip is to sign up for an Alcoholics Anonymous course or read articles on the Internet, watch a video on how to stop drinking yourself.
Step 4
If your own willpower is not enough to quit alcohol, special drugs and pills will help. The choice of them in pharmacies is huge, only the cost, composition, duration of the effect of action differ. Such funds include: Esperal, Antabus, Lidevin, Teturam, Kolme drops, Disulfiram, Radoter. The drugs are designed to cause a persistent aversion to alcohol, to form its intolerance in the future. However, before taking it, you must definitely study the instructions and possible contraindications.
Step 5
It happens that first you need to remove the symptoms of a hangover, remove the remnants of alcohol from the body before finally quitting drinking. In this case, other drugs will come to the rescue: Alka-primm, Medichronal, Alka-Seltzer, Metadoxil, Antipohmelin, Zorex, Alkoklin. You should not expect 100% of the effect from taking these pills, but they cope well with the manifestations of a hangover.
Step 6
Adherents of natural drugs can be advised to relieve hangover syndrome the following herbal remedies: Bison, DrinkOff, Korda, Pickle Guten Morgen, Zenalk, Alco-buffer. True, you should not count on the result especially, self-hypnosis and belief in the healing effect of herbs work more here.
Step 7
For those who have decided to finally give up alcohol, it will be very difficult in the first days. The main problems with a sharp refusal from alcohol are weakness, nausea, depression, headache, ringing in the ears, insomnia. To ease the symptoms of a hangover, doctors prescribe enterosorbents to patients. These include activated carbon, succinic acid, glycine, motherwort tincture, Smecta, Enterosgel, Lactofiltrum. For headaches, Analgin, Tempalgin, Spazmalgon, Spazgan, Panadol, Ibufen are prescribed. The proven remedies - Validol, Valerianka, Corvalol - save from pain in the heart and nervousness.
Step 8
If you have a sharp desire to drink, simple actions will help: a cold shower (up to several times a day), drinking a large amount of drinking water or mineral water after eating, refusing salty, spicy, fatty, long walks in the fresh air, playing sports, running. It is recommended to take vitamins, listen to funny music, watch comedies, communicate more with friends.
Step 9
Another way is to prepare homemade infusions and decoctions from herbs that cause aversion to alcohol. These include St. John's wort, oats, bearberry, thyme, wormwood, yarrow, ram. Here are some simple recipes:
- in a glass of boiling water, brew 2 tablespoons of dried thyme, drink a whole glass a day several times;
- take 4 tablespoons of dried St. John's wort, pour 500 ml of boiling water, leave for an hour, drink all the liquid during the day in several doses;
- pour 10 branches of lamb in a saucepan with a glass of boiling water, keep the broth on fire for about 15 minutes, when it cools down, drink in small sips;
- pour boiling water over 2 tablespoons of bearberry, cook for 20 minutes, drink 6 times a day in small portions.
