Do most people drink alcohol every day?

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My FB is full of dry January; mostly people lamenting how awful/difficult it is

I drink very rarely, so it’s not a thing but made me wonder if most people would struggle with an alcohol free month?

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My personal view is that if you can ONLY have fun when drinking, then that's a potential problem.

Agreed, I’m also far more comfortable with others drinking than they are with me not drinking. It’s comical how uncomfortable some people are about it, as though my choice makes them question their own.

I have a very ‘each to their own’ attitude and only ever get defensive when people try overly hard to get me to drink. I don’t want to- respect that please!

I drink too much. It's become a habit to have a wine or beer to de stress after work in an evening. I am a worrier and it genuinely helps me and allows me to fall asleep. I know it's a problem though so hoping dry January will lose me some weight and force me into a different stress relief habit. Hoping to stick with it forever not just January though.

Honestly I would say most people I know drink several nights in a week, not to excess though. Others drink excessively once or twice a week.

If they weren’t bitching and pissing about how hard it is then how would you know how amazing they are for doing it.
If they did it quietly then no one would say anything.

Wow, I must really be bucking the three day average trend then. I probably have three drinks not in a day but in three months! I’m quite content in my own reality. I don’t need to use drink to calm me, help me socialise, or make me happy. I like the taste now and again but don’t bother too much. Instead my addiction is to cake 🧁 🍰 🎂

It’s comical how uncomfortable some people are about it, as though my choice makes them question their own.

This. Incredible how often the people I know who are the heaviest drinkers make comments about usually only having one. It's because if they are surrounded by other drinkers it normalises their (excessive) drinking.

I know hundreds of people who were daily drinkers but they, like me, are in AA. Maybe for normal people, once they decide they can't have something, even if the ban is self imposed, they want it more? If someone said to me that I couldn't drink tea/coffee for a month as a challenge, I would find that difficult.

I think it’s like a diet isn’t it, because you’re telling yourself you can’t have XYZ you want it more! Well I do anyway, I have to tell myself I’m moderating rather than cutting out completely.
Also December can be a lot of socialising and drinking, so to go from one extreme to the other can be quite hard. I had a drink most days last week where I was off and it can become a habit quite quickly.

No I don't think most people drink alcohol every day. I certainly don't. But I drink 2-3 times a week and would find it a bit miserable to give up for a month. I could do it. I don't think I have a "problem". But I don't want to and I don't really see the point. So I'm not.

I drank more over Christmas and in the run up to it, so dry Jan is an alcohol detox.
Normally i drink on a Friday/Saturday and Sunday night.

I did have a drink nearly every day until recently. I enjoyed an evening glass of wine and would always drink at a social event .
I stopped drinking in November and have felt much better for it.

I don’t drink at all. My husband has a drink or two most days. I don’t like it but he isn’t drunk and it doesn’t really affect me. I think it’s a social norm

I would find it difficult, not because I like getting drunk, but because I actually love the taste of red wine (we’ve found an Italian biological one called Zensa which just tastes amazing). So I’m craving the taste of wine (esp with food as we are massive foodies and cook from scratch a lot so wine goes well) whilst attempting to do dry January because we drank a lot in December, which is the hard part

I am alcohol dependant. I drink every day. I wish I didn't.

Have you got help you?

I drink most days because I like it, not because I have to. Going without if circumstances dictate is not an issue at all.

I met a friend for lunch today and had a pint - why shouldn’t I.

I very rarely eat sprouts. If someone told me I couldn’t have any for a month I couldn’t visit a shop without breaking. It’s just a personality trait, I don’t like being told why to do.

Never been a drinker, never been pissed once, and don't understand people, especially in their 40s like me, who get pissed every Friday and/or Saturday every single week.

Seriously - you should try it. I think it’s fun and enjoy the feeling while you might hate it but I don’t understand a mentality where you would actively avoid something that billions of people worldwide obviously enjoy.

I will try anything once as it might turn out to be brilliant. If it isn’t, then I won’t bother again but I certainly wouldn’t judge those who do (until such point as drink, drugs, caffeine, exercise, binge watching TV etc that people get addicted to impacts on the life of them or those around them obviously)

I have a glass of white wine with dinner every night. I could easily not though. But I enjoy it after a long day running around after a baby on the move! So no dry January for me :)

I’m definitely judged for being a non drinker. Which is funny because I don’t judge my friends who drink. On nights out I’ve known people be really quite rude about me not drinking, ranting at me that I can’t be out and not be drinking.

I only don’t drink because I don’t like the feeling I get from alcohol. Obviously others like that feeling, good for them.

I drink sporadically depending on whether I bloody well want to or not. It wouldn't be a challenge for me to go a month without drinking if that's what I wanted to do, but it isn't. Mainly because I don't like being told what to do 😁

Cant I don't not drink. I've very occasionally had three glasses of wine over a night. I've never been pissed. Seen too many people behaving like total arseholes, throwing up, feeling like shit the next day. Doesn't look fun to me. I can still have a bloody enjoyable night out without getting pissed with the added advantage of remembering it too.

I don’t see the point in it either, if doing it I would assume there was a lot of drink to give up but a month isn’t going to make any health difference so it’s just a token gesture.

I do think a lot of people drink daily, us none drinkers seem o be getting rarer.

A lot of sanctimonious non drinkers on here mocking Dry January because a) I don't have a problem with alcohol or b) I don't understand people who drink every day.
Well count yourself lucky on the first, and educate yourself on the second. For many, many people Dry January is a support mechanism to make steps towards reducing alcohol intake. Just because you don't need it, doesn't mean nobody else does.

Maybe it’s that they miss it after the excesses of Christmas?

I don't drink daily, but would still miss being able to share a bottle of wine at the weekend - that doesn't mean I have a problem though!

I wish people would stop saying it doesn't have an effect. You are wrong. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dry-january-has-benefits-all-year-long-180971163/

Your reckons aren't actually the same as scientific data

Dry January,is just another fad that has crept in over the years. It's obviously aimed for the Christmas drinking that lots of people partake in. But if you drink too much,you should maybe have A Dry Every Month thing.!!