When did you stop drinking a lot?

[Wernazuma III]

I stopped ~20-21 to drink much. Now I only drink very occasionally, generally only 0.5l beer, and maybe once a year up to 2l.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Lancer
Jon, did you join a grape juice church?

Yeah.

JM

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Krill
If I'm drinking, then I usually have a good 10 units+ on the night, but I rarely drink more than 3 times a week.

Same here, exclusively hard liquor. No adverse health effects for now, either (no hangovers, no vomiting, no vomit smiley , no cirrhosis, etc.). I'll probably slow down by age 30, though.

[Flubber]

One of these years I guess I should stop


Seriously I never drank "a lot" as in a whole bunch every day. I had my spell in college where you are drunk say 3 nights a week but by law school money was tighter and it was rarely more than once a week.

Now?? I can go months without having any alcohol at all and when I do drink, its probably just a single drink, maybe two. Getting buzzed is a 3-4 times a year thing and really really drunk has not happened in quite a while

[Wittlich]

When did you stop drinking a lot?

When I pass-out.

[MRT144]

I realized that I usually start to drink with dinner. I'll have 2 beers or a glass of wine with dinner and then an after dinner cocktail, some kind of decaf coffee drink cocktail.

I'll try to cut back and see what happens.

[MRT144]

Originally posted by Dis
2+?

it all depends on the +. 3 is okay, maybe 4. More than 5 is a bit high. yeah 5 doesn't seem like much, but it means you have a lot of tolerance, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

i never do more than 5. I get heartburn and have the craps the next day. I know 5 is my limit.

[Traianvs]

dp

[Traianvs]

MRT144: You don't have anything to worry about; you're not drinking too much. If you don't feel anything the day after then you haven't really been 'intoxicated'.

To answer the OP: I haven't quit drinking sadly. During weekdays I drink 10-20 (or more on certain occasions) beers, or about 6-7 heavy beers or so (8-12%). I'm sure I won't be doing this for the rest of my life but being a student right now gives me every opportunity to do so, especialyl because beer's quite cheap in the cafés over here, and I'm even doing shifts in my student home bar myself. On top of that I only sleep 4-6 hours a day, especially now I'm doing an internship at a radio station so have to get up early. Luckily I'm a vegetarian and I play sports so that evens things out a bit on the health side.

My drinking is pretty excessive, and albeit I have a slight addiction, I can quit drinking whenever I want (during exams, when I go backpacking for some time). Do feel a bit guilty because it's terribly unhealthy, and it strengthens my dark, melancholic and negative world views in a way.

[Krill]

Woot! 1 bottle of mead (14.7% and 700ml of mead) and 2 morals manglers (2*4.5 units) and about 1/4 of a bottle of port.

And I'm still standing.

To quote a rather inteligent individual,

The liver is an evil organ, it must be punished!

[Japher]

I'm working on getting below 12+ beers per day... it's tough

[Krill]

It's over rated as well...

[LordShiva]

qft

[Krill]

missed the quote again...

[LordShiva]