Download or read book The Smart & Easy Guide to Controlling Your Drinking written by Jerry Reaves and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day is a new opportunity. Whether or not you consider yourself an alcoholic, if you're struggling with any problem with alcohol you're in luck. This groundbreaking work is designed to give you everything you need to quit the habit and all of the destructive, distressing and damaging effects that come with alcohol abuse, binge drinking and habitual over-indulgence.Whether you only suspect you have a problem, or you've been drinking to inebriation for many years, this book is designed to provide an alternative to drug rehab scenarios, and to traditional 12 step Alcoholics Anonymous programs. It can also be a complement for those considering a more traditional treatment for alcoholism, or a first step towards any of the alcohol treatments described herein. All readers need to understand: • The nature and difficulty of the commitment required. • The emotional fortitude required, and how to build up your strength gradually and rationally.• Getting help where you can. All kinds of alternatives are available. Finding the right one will help you, too. • Learning is a still a part of your life, and what you're doing is learning to be yourself, and to make yourself truly happy. Millions of Americans and people all around the world suffer from alcoholism. And they do suffer. The effects and consequences of alcohol abuse are well known and often most apparent to the drinker. But being helpless about changing and improving your lot in life is not an answer any more. Re-dedicating yourself to a solution, everyday, and to a new beginning is something every one with a drinking problem does on their own. Alone and individually. You may feel that way now. Alone. But this book is designed to quickly re-integrate you into a world where you won't be alone, much less alienated and suffering. You'll learn to position yourself best for a new approach to alcohol and alcoholism, to all of the treatments available with a frank analysis of each and to better get on with your life. • Learn why relapses happen. And how to recover from them and prevent them. • Learn key relapse triggers and how to better avoid them.• Learn interesting, enthralling and life affirming alternatives to drinking that allow anyone with a drinking problem to relearn life and living. If you or someone you care for suffers from too much drinking, this is the quickest and most unbiased guide available to all of your options. Continuing drinking is not among them. Changing your life takes time, commitment and guts, but it also takes a thorough understanding, some research and some time put in. This book is the first place to put in your time. Readers get a thorough introduction to the problem of alcoholism, the nature of the solutions that work best and the specifics of what works best for whom. They also get step-by-step instructions on what the process is like and how to resolve an alcohol problem permanently. While the character of the drinker is bound to have suffered, this book takes the position that anyone can give up drinking. The long, sometimes difficult road doesn't need to be worsened by bad information or conflicting accounts of what to do next. While not necessarily desperate, alcoholism is a grave problem that calls for bold solutions and bold actors. This book is intended to embolden those who read it and to be a first step toward a lasting and fulfilling recovery.