I've been drinking 6 to 8 beers a day for about 10 years. What terrible things might happen if I quit cold turkey?

I've been drinking 6 to 8 beers a day for about 10 years. What terrible things might happen if I quit cold turkey?

Delirium and shit dude. Get professional help.

Do the two step, two beers less every two days. But keep one extra around in case you get shakes or alike. Such conditions will fade away after a few days of being dry.

Weight loss

It's unlikely you have chemical dependency, more mental from that small amount. It shouldn't be too bad.

Ok, I'm going for it, cheers

Op your liver is fucked up if youve been doing that for 10 years

A six pack of beer a day isn't going to fuck you up if you go cold turkey. You're just going to be pissed off and will have a hard time falling asleep at night for a bit. You're safe.

yeah one would think so, but I had it tested some weeks ago and my liver is fit as hell.

Hey OP, oldfag here and former drunk. Don't listen to the kids, you're going to have a physical withdrawal no matter what but the good news is it's pretty manageable if you're committed to doing it yourself. Get your hands on some Xanax or Ativan and just cold turkey it. When your heart starts fluttering take a xanax, but don't overdo it, and make sure you have enough to get through two days. About six 0.5mg tabs per day. Make them last. Also, you're going to have a tough time sleeping and getting comfortable. It will be unpleasant but you'll make it through, by day three you'll be exhausted but all the nasty withdrawals will be gone. AT that point it's up to you wether you need a program. I don't do it because they're basically cults, but most people swear by them for staying clean. Good luck!

Drank13-16 7% alcohol beers a day for 20 years. Went to detox for one night. stabilized after 8 hrs. No withdrawal at all. 19 yrs sober last month.

ok will keep that in mind

amazing. good job

what a lot of anons are saying here.

youre gonna have minor withdrawal, maybe a little on-edge, a little restless, and angry. maybe a bit shaky.

Keep a towel close to your bed at night, you might wake up a little sweaty. You're also gonna have some crazy vivid dreams/nightmares. First sober sleeps are intense.

Quit booze yesterday. Getting fat and weird heart beat at night. Depressed too. Dreading going to bed but have to do it.

unless you are an 80lb woman you won't need a detox or have seizures etc. Just set a final day, take your last drink that night and wake up in abstinence. fight is with the mental hurdles not chemical with that much beer.

What are you like 80 years old?

Hallucinations, tremors and chills.
Mostly if you're a sailor tho

>Oldfag detected.

Do you want to ween off? Or do you wanna go the easy route and just spend 4 days drinking soup on benzos in bed?

My good friend was a severe alcoholic (over 20 drinks a day) and I helped him quit. I bought him a case of beer which I dispensed, a shitload of soup and gallon jugs of water. Started with 12 beers a day, then 11, then 9, then 7, then 5 and so on. no seizures but he didn't enjoy it.

Good luck OP.

early fiddys, started drinking in high school

Look just don't stop try to aim higher. I say go for 8-10 tomorrow.

Old but not an oldfag. Got here in 2011 after Cheezeburger site whined Sup Forums made a little girl cry. That makes me officially cancer. First wave of cancer though.

I drank a 12 pack of Miller Lites every night from Dec 2006 - Feb 2016.. All it really did was make me fat. Cutting back wasnt hard at all. Do you want to be fat or look good? Now I drink IPA's and only on the weekends

little girl was Jessie Slaughter.
Cannot unsee awful roast beef posted
dozen times a day for months on end

20+19=39
Early fifties, we'll say your 54
54-39=15

So you're saying at age 15 you drink 13-16 beers a day every day?

What the fuck country do you live in where this is socially acceptable?

Did you even have parents?

Great advice from someone who obviously doesn't know jack fuck about alcoholism.

Google the pour fool

Why would you have withdrawals from drinking water?

Haha, he lives in America faggot. What are you? Some kind of queer?

Huge tall behemoth. Started buying beer illegally at 13. First time I got carded wasn't until 16. Bought a fake I.D, did all my drinking outside at night with friends who were also juicers. Parents never paid the slightest attention to what I was doing which is WHY I was doing it

just relating my own experience on 13-16 high test a day and having Zero chemical withdrawl.
Guys in detox with me were drinking hard liquor in volumes that would kill a newby. seriously 6-8 beers a day is not so much unless the person in question is both female and very very small.

I mean it certainly qualifies as alcolism but shit do you have ANY idea how many people in the U.S. drink at least a six pack a day and never even realize their dependency? Those guys hold down day jobs and don't wake up hungover so WHY would stopping cause fucking delirium tremens and seziures when they quit?

Will take longer than a few days.
After 10 years of drinking you're looking at like a month to ween yourself off completely.

just like any drug,even the ones doctors prescribe, just taper dude. 6-8? so over the next month safely go to 0-1....you should do the same dose for 7 days....so 4 cycles.

go 6-7 for a week
4-5
3-4
2-3
and by next month you'll be 1-2...then eventually do zero.

don't cold turkey. Alcohol withdrawal can kill you.

Yeah seriously, this. Youre an alcoholic op, try on your own but keep a 6 pack around in case shit gets rough. I'm right there with you though and I don't think I can quit tbh

that would be great advice if we were taking about a benzodiazepine addiction but fuck we are talking about shitty watery american beer, 5% alcohol by volume on average. Give me a fucking break "Doc" at that level WEANING is prolonging the torture and making the mental challenge HARDER .

Hopefully you'll die from withdrawal and won't have to worry about life without alcohol.

There's an alchie support community right here on 4chins. Not telling you where because Sup Forums is filled with retarded, unfunny children nowadays and they'd shit the place up. I've been drunk for 1/4 century, tolerance is between 2-3 70ck bottles of vodka daily, and their threads are very helpful to me. There's always, always one active. Just don't treat it like the rest of Sup Forums, it's not for brats. Find it if you're sufficiently determined. And good luck, alcohol is the fucking devil.

It seems like a lot of folks on here are unclear about how alcohol addiction operates in the human body. If you drink one beer a day for 10 years you are going to go into withdrawal if you don't have that beer. The volume of alcohol is meaningless.

If OP wakes up HUNGOVER LIKE FUCK
on 6-8 American beers every day and struggles
all day then certainly supervised detox or tapering , but if he gets up feeling fine every
morning except for guilt, then he has a strong tolerance and can cold turkey if he wants. All depends
on his body mass index, his age, his sex, and his tolerance from habitual use.

I heard from a reliable source that if you quit cold turkey you get cancer

Said no knowledgeable person ever. Alchies generally don't get hangovers because we never stop drinking.

you might die....idk get some help getting off bear cause the withdrawal can kill you

you could die

spoken like a community college Chad
who took Bio first year and only binge drinks on New Years Eve

do you even juice Sup Forumsro?

Yeah, I was gonna suggest a long lasting benzo like kpins would probably be helpful if he planned on quitting cold turkey.

How do you find this board then

I'm quoting my doctor, but okay.

Also OP don't fucking ask for medical advice on
Sup Forums. Sup Forums kills people or tries to on a regular basis.
I might tell you what I think about your issue but my qualifications are nill as in None. Jack . Fuck. All. You have a higher chance of survival asking medical advice from Google than Sup Forums.
Thinking about it now, I'm sorry to have offered an opinion in this thread. Any Search engine since Yanks don't have health care.

You will become horribly, depressingly, hopelessly sober.

im in similar boat as you im 31 have been at it nightly for around 8 years... I don't feel hung over in the least and function thru out the day I only drink from around 6:30 7pm-9pm, I have stopped before cold turkey but it only lasted a week or so I felt irritable and had bad insomnia but other than that all was well

are you serious. is this bait?
yeah get a juice pig hooked on BENZOS
as an "alternative" coz they don't cause
horrible addiction that makes underlying causes worse as you chemically jones 3 hrs after every stinking pill and that doesn't drive anxiety levels so fucking high that he needs a bogger dose or wretched fucking worse than booze benzos

You might actually enjoy your life instead of watching it waste away

6-8 beers honestly isn't that much, and it's very likely that nothing will happen at all if you quit.

The only time alcohol withdrawal (or alcohol itself for that matter) can really fuck a person up is when they consistently binge drink.

Im a beer expert and blogger, the pour fool. You can quit easy. That's not that much beer anyway.
Steve

AHAHAHAHA

Kpins are long lasting benzos used for tapering off of benzos and also in treating alcohol addiction. I'm not suggesting trading one evil for another. I'm suggesting using them as they're meant for. As medicine.

Seizures, sweats for days, delerium tremens accompanied by shakes so bad that you'll wish you were dead.

Go to the hospital, get some ativan, don't be an idiot. Cold turkey from alcohol is one of stupidest things anyone could ever do to their body.

You CAN die. It's one of the two detoxes you can die from. The other being benzos. Even heroin detox won't kill you.

Not true at all. Vast majority have the day jobs that buy the booze. Only lowbrow broken mother fuckers stay drunk all day. I know, as I'm not sayin Orville Officefag didn't have two beers at breakfast, a pub lunch at noon and happy
hour after work before going home to do some SERIOUS drinking, I'm jus saying most alcoholics are mostly sober for the 8 hrs that pay the bills

Thanks for all the replies and support.

...

you won't quit, so don't worry about it

BARNEY GUMBLE

Me and my GF have been binge drinking 5-7 nights a week for about 2 years straight...it started 10 years ago as 1-2 nights, then 3-4 and so on, up to this point where we can both drink a 750ML (a fifth) bottle of vodka (or more sometimes), and still not be blackout drunk.

It has been 3 days since I've had a drink, and I did tremble a bit on the first day, but I'm actually handling it pretty well so far. I'll probably have a six pack of a good IPA on Friday and take a few more days off.
Feelsgoodman.

I got sober 6 years ago, OP.

I drank 15-30 beers a day, every day, and sometimes went out to bars, so add shots to that.

Nothing happened.

No DTs, no withdrawal. If it's just beer, you won't go through the horrors of withdrawal like a hard liquor drinker will.

Of course, everyone is different, but, that was my experience.

Now the mental addiction, the actual alcoholism piece, that's a whole new can of worms.

If you're going to try AA, go to NA. Addiction is addiction, and there's hotter girls at NA, and not just people telling boring drinking stories like AA is.

Ive been downing a pint (about 12 shots) of hard liquor every night for the past 6 years. Is my liver fucked? What about brain cells and functionality? I always have hand tremors and body "tics" and extreme nervousness, profuse sweating (not fat fuck). Will this go away if i stop drinking?

In other news... I found an amazon gift card worth a pretty penny. Will i get in trouble for useing it? Do people report lost gift cards?

>be me 21
>at uni and still a virgin
>go to a few uni parties and pull a girl
>scored.png
>few weeks later I feel I'm really going off porn, doesn't feel right
>feel a bit crap try to pull more before exams but fruitless
>skip ahead a few years, 23 and finished uni
>just finished uni but have no gf
>go out clubbing with mates to pull
>going out every few days/night to go clubbing
>start to cost me so i start to drink at home with mates more
>start drinking without mates more
>going through a bottle of whiskey and cans every 2 days or so now
>about a year of this
>get home one day and do a poo
>realise there's nothing there
.>i dig around the loo to finsh my shit
>do this for a year
>wake up one day 25 years old digging

rip.gif

thats really not that much. a couple of decades ago that was just called 'being a normal guy'. pussy.

Reality.

I m on antibiotics for a week so I stop drinking 4 days ago because of a gum/jaw infection.
It s really hard after drinking for the last 20 years and drinking half a bottle of vodka and 4 litres of cider.
Huge sweating and barely sleep..
I m thinking about quitting altogether at the end of the week.

newfag

i used to do that funny enough for 6 years when i worked as a bouncer (after my shifts), i used to drink more than that, quite a bit more usually.
i stopped, pretty much cold turkey, zero alcohol for about a year after that, and then later only occasional drinking. no ill effects, really. but everyones different, i never really had too much dt, or serious withdrawal, it sucked though, but nothing major...

sell the gift card on craigslist.