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Showing posts with label quiting alcohol. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Alcohol -What is INTELLIGENT DRINKING and UNINTELLIGENT DRINKING?

 INTELLIGENT DRINKING

There are some people who believe that to touch alcohol at all, to take even the first drink, are to invite possible disaster. But there are many, including knowledgeable physicians, who believe that intelligent drinking has much to recommend it. Intelligent drinking is a matter of timing as well as moderation. The time to drink is at the end of the work day, not at lunch and not after dinner. Cocktail time, provided it involves an unhurried drink or two, can be a pleasant time. It can foster relaxation, especially if the atmosphere is quiet, peaceful. It can ameliorate some of the tensions of the day -in effect, ringing down the curtain on the work day, opening the way for a relaxed dinner and relaxed evening. Intelligent drinking of this sort, if your regular preventive medical checkups indicate that you have no health problem, is not likely to be a health hazard.

 UNINTELLIGENT DRINKING

It has been said that the road to alcoholism is an easy one to travel. And, indeed, some rules, seemingly facetious but not really so, have been suggested.

1.        Start each day right-by taking a drink as soon as possible after you get up.

 2.       Whenever you feel depressed or have a problem, take a drink or two. If you are alone, take more; who will know?

3.        If you take one drink and then feel like having another, and then another, you are on the right track. Keep it up.

 4.       When you serve drinks to guests, be sure to sneak a few snorts for yourself between regular servings.

5.        If you want to get up nerve or bolster your self-confidence, take a drink to get rid of your inferiority complex.

6.        Don't just take a cocktail or two before dinner; keep it up after dinner.

7.        No matter how many drinks you have had, if you can lie flat on the floor without holding on, you can regard yourself as OK. 

Despite their seeming facetiousness, these rules make an important point: It is easy for some people to slip into uncontrolled drinking and to delude themselves that it is still intelligent drinking or harmless drinking.