Books/ podcasts?

[FFSgetagripoldlady]

I need to stop drinking. It's beyond problematic. Can anyone recommend podcasts or audiobooks that I can listen to as I drive or any books/ websites that I can read?
I need help.

Not what you asked so may not be helpful but I have just downloaded I am sober app which tracks sober days, calories and money saved. I’m going to watch this thread for podcast ideas too though.

@Bumble84 - thanks. Have downloaded. I don't have any support IRL, so very much needing ideas.

Podcasts -
Sober awkward
One for the road

Books -
Alcohol Explained
Allen carrs easy way
Sober diaries , claire Pooley

The unexpected joy of being sober.
Alcohol Explained.

The podcast Over the Influence is really good

Annie Grace - This naked mind

Do you have a Reddit account?
I’ve found the ‘Stop Drinking’ page/thread really useful and check in daily.
www.reddit.com/r/stopdrinking/s/uIfCYqQ9Rg

Alcohol Explained (both) are good audiobooks
Allen Carr is an audiobook that’s well narrated but I think better read to yourself.
the Life Changing Magic of Quitting Alcohol as an audiobook is great.

The above focus on how brilliant it is to not drink. Positive messages etc about the upsides. Less wanging on about how hard it all is and the white knuckling.

It’s much easier to choose to quit drinking because you’re reminded about amazing sleep and feeling very well, having lots of energy and having better skin and being slimmer and richer.

I did like The Unexpected Joy of being Sober but she was waaaaay beyond my own problem drinking which was mostly at home - though 60 units a week - so I didn’t feel all that much of a connection with her misery.

if you want to see what alcohol CAN do, the Louis Theroux documentary on alcohol and the old BBC documentary Rain In My Heart should do the job.

Allen carrs easy way

it's a good book but i think you should read it and not listen to it. Make sure you are still drinking when you start... by that I mean don't stop cause you have picked up the book. You need to do what you normally do drinks wise when you begin. A lot of the stuff is drinking and thinking about what he's saying. You will see alcohol in a different light as he goes through it in stages. The book includes a lot of penny dropping moments and other information.

a word of advice... it's actually worse for you to CUT DOWN than it is to just continue to drink as you were, (drink normally)

Why you might ask?

It's because cutting down has all sorts of rules and special efforts that have to be done. You don't ever do that when your drinking normally - you just drink when you wanna drink and however much you wanna.
Where as cutting down.....gotta decide which day, what time starting,, what time stopping, how much your allowed.. then you start thinking forward to when your allowed to, then you do a countdown, then you feel regret afterwards. Then you find you are barely cutting down at all in actual fact..but you've still got all the disadvantages of cutting down.

That is why quitting is actually easier than cutting down.

Hardest: Cutting down
Easiest : Either doing nothing about it , or drinking nothing at all

Recommend '90 Days Later - Your Guide to Alcohol Freedom'