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Nine of Spades said:

Last evening I drank so much alcohol that I completely collapsed on the couch at about 5:45, having fallen to sleep. I had gone through a 6-pack in less than ten minutes. Sure, I felt really happy initially, but then the tiredness set in and I promptly went to bed.

I woke up at about an hour past midnight, and now my sleep schedule is messed up a bit. The first thing I wanted was a cigarette, so I smoked one. Well, actually I smoked half a cigarette, then put it out and threw it away. Then I made sure to throw away all my cigarettes and also flush all the alcohol in my house down the toilet. I thought this would help me quit the tobacco and the drinks, but unfortunately I know if I get tempted later I can always buy more of both.

For years now I’ve had a problem with drinking and smoking. I think the main issue here is that I’m self-employed. I work as a contract writer from home, taking various jobs day after day. Since I don’t have a boss, I have the freedom to engage in these vices without being reprimanded.

I really want to quit alcohol and tobacco, but it’s an exceedingly difficult task, especially given the fact that I’m self-employed. However, I’ve had some success in the past: About a year ago, I was able to go 56 days without drinking and smoking (I kept a tally for every day of abstinence), having been able to do it cold turkey and without tapering.

I want to check into a recovery/rehab house and stay there for a month. The issue here is that it costs $7,000 for a month-long stay with insurance. I feel like the cost is too expensive relative to the amount of time I would stay there. So instead I’m going to try to quit from home, and I would like to request the prayers of others than I successfully quit alcohol and tobacco forever. Thanks!

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Your local AA chapter can help you for nothing out of your pocket, why not give it a try.

Hi Addict

It makes it so much easier to be clean if one does some repair work on the brain first through vitamin therapy and there is a lot of advice and help online for that. For example:

Alcoholism: Nutritional Treatment

Best wishes to you

Nine of Spades said:

Last evening I drank so much alcohol that I completely collapsed on the couch at about 5:45, having fallen to sleep. I had gone through a 6-pack in less than ten minutes. Sure, I felt really happy initially, but then the tiredness set in and I promptly went to bed.

I woke up at about an hour past midnight, and now my sleep schedule is messed up a bit. The first thing I wanted was a cigarette, so I smoked one. Well, actually I smoked half a cigarette, then put it out and threw it away. Then I made sure to throw away all my cigarettes and also flush all the alcohol in my house down the toilet. I thought this would help me quit the tobacco and the drinks, but unfortunately I know if I get tempted later I can always buy more of both.

For years now I’ve had a problem with drinking and smoking. I think the main issue here is that I’m self-employed. I work as a contract writer from home, taking various jobs day after day. Since I don’t have a boss, I have the freedom to engage in these vices without being reprimanded.

I really want to quit alcohol and tobacco, but it’s an exceedingly difficult task, especially given the fact that I’m self-employed. However, I’ve had some success in the past: About a year ago, I was able to go 56 days without drinking and smoking (I kept a tally for every day of abstinence), having been able to do it cold turkey and without tapering.

I want to check into a recovery/rehab house and stay there for a month. The issue here is that it costs $7,000 for a month-long stay with insurance. I feel like the cost is too expensive relative to the amount of time I would stay there. So instead I’m going to try to quit from home, and I would like to request the prayers of others than I successfully quit alcohol and tobacco forever. Thanks!

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In my adolescence I used to binge drink. I was able to quit through regular prayer and by weaning myself off alcohol over a 30 day period. Every night for 30 days I drank 2 glasses of red wine before I went to sleep.
After the second glass I drank no more. I would then nod off to sleep.

I was also smoking cigarettes at the time. Whilst I weaned myself off alcohol as I mentioned before I prayed regularly to God to get me to quit. It was back in 1998 when I drank my last 2 glasses of red wine and praise the Lord I haven't looked back.

As for smoking I tried quitting several times until around 2003 I was able to quit permanently. Again prayer was the key to success. Amen. When I quit for short periods they would last 1 or 2 and then 6 months. But then I'd start smoking again!

I'm not sure I would have been able to quit both at the same time. However, with prayer anything is possible!

Having quit alcohol in 1998 and smoking in 2003 life is far more pleasant and I have been able to save a lot of money. My doctor also told me it's the best thing to have happened to me from a health perspective.

Keep trying, pray regularly and I'm sure you will find in the end that it's not too difficult. The Lord be with you and get you over the line... Amen.

God bless...

Nine of Spades said:

Last evening I drank so much alcohol that I completely collapsed on the couch at about 5:45, having fallen to sleep. I had gone through a 6-pack in less than ten minutes. Sure, I felt really happy initially, but then the tiredness set in and I promptly went to bed.

I woke up at about an hour past midnight, and now my sleep schedule is messed up a bit. The first thing I wanted was a cigarette, so I smoked one. Well, actually I smoked half a cigarette, then put it out and threw it away. Then I made sure to throw away all my cigarettes and also flush all the alcohol in my house down the toilet. I thought this would help me quit the tobacco and the drinks, but unfortunately I know if I get tempted later I can always buy more of both.

For years now I’ve had a problem with drinking and smoking. I think the main issue here is that I’m self-employed. I work as a contract writer from home, taking various jobs day after day. Since I don’t have a boss, I have the freedom to engage in these vices without being reprimanded.

I really want to quit alcohol and tobacco, but it’s an exceedingly difficult task, especially given the fact that I’m self-employed. However, I’ve had some success in the past: About a year ago, I was able to go 56 days without drinking and smoking (I kept a tally for every day of abstinence), having been able to do it cold turkey and without tapering.

I want to check into a recovery/rehab house and stay there for a month. The issue here is that it costs $7,000 for a month-long stay with insurance. I feel like the cost is too expensive relative to the amount of time I would stay there. So instead I’m going to try to quit from home, and I would like to request the prayers of others than I successfully quit alcohol and tobacco forever. Thanks!

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Hi brother, I was a drunk (but not an addict) when I was a grad student at Virginia Tech. Christian counseling from Dr. Adrian Hickmon who now runs the "Capstone treatment center" really set me free. Adrian himself was an addict in his youth. He later baptized me. You can browse their team and site at this link:
Our Team, Christian Rehab Centers... - Capstone Treatment Center

FYI, I attended secular counseling at tech, but that didn't help. Adrian's friendship and scripture based counseling did the trick for me. Praying for you.

I have had voices in my head for 6.5 years now and I haven't even had more than about 10 seconds of silence during this time. Apparently the angels are having sex with the demons like bowsir in my head that cover up who I am, while "the old creep" made "wells of emotional anguish" they all shared while I was suicidal and desperately needed someone good like an angel to at least let me know I was worthy of being loved. I hope they can stop somehow, because it effects/affects somebody down here... And it sure means alot.

Nine of Spades said:

Last evening I drank so much alcohol that I completely collapsed on the couch at about 5:45, having fallen to sleep. I had gone through a 6-pack in less than ten minutes. Sure, I felt really happy initially, but then the tiredness set in and I promptly went to bed.

I woke up at about an hour past midnight, and now my sleep schedule is messed up a bit. The first thing I wanted was a cigarette, so I smoked one. Well, actually I smoked half a cigarette, then put it out and threw it away. Then I made sure to throw away all my cigarettes and also flush all the alcohol in my house down the toilet. I thought this would help me quit the tobacco and the drinks, but unfortunately I know if I get tempted later I can always buy more of both.

For years now I’ve had a problem with drinking and smoking. I think the main issue here is that I’m self-employed. I work as a contract writer from home, taking various jobs day after day. Since I don’t have a boss, I have the freedom to engage in these vices without being reprimanded.

I really want to quit alcohol and tobacco, but it’s an exceedingly difficult task, especially given the fact that I’m self-employed. However, I’ve had some success in the past: About a year ago, I was able to go 56 days without drinking and smoking (I kept a tally for every day of abstinence), having been able to do it cold turkey and without tapering.

I want to check into a recovery/rehab house and stay there for a month. The issue here is that it costs $7,000 for a month-long stay with insurance. I feel like the cost is too expensive relative to the amount of time I would stay there. So instead I’m going to try to quit from home, and I would like to request the prayers of others than I successfully quit alcohol and tobacco forever. Thanks!

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The flesh is weak. Pray that you do not quench the power and work of the Holy Spirit. He can help you stop. You just need to give Him a chance. Be blessed.

I pray you will be given wisdom and insight on what to do. The Bible says that in your weakness the grace of the Lord is made perfect. It also says the battle is the Lords.

I pray that you turn this totally over to him, for life.

Nine of Spades said:

I have great news. I’ve decided to permanently forgo alcohol, but I’m going to ease off the cigarettes for now. Quitting two very addictive drugs at the same time is hard, so for the next seven days I’m going detox from alcohol. Earlier I made an appointment with my doctor, who I’ll be seeing today at 2:45. I will ask her for a week-long supply of Librium, which is an alcohol detox pill that I’ve successfully used in the past to get through the withdrawals.

I bought some 2 mg nicotine gum to use in lieu of cigarettes. I used a piece earlier, and it felt a bit stronger than an ordinary cigarette. Still, if I can use this stuff for a week and wane myself off nicotine, then on day eight when my alcohol withdrawals are finished I’ll then be able to quit nicotine forever.

I confess that I did think about alcohol today, even though it’s only 10:40 in the morning. My cravings normally don’t set in until the evening, but they’re here and feel strong because I know I won’t be drinking anymore. But I will continually pray each time I get the urge to drink and rely on the Holy Spirit to take my mind off it and get through the withdrawals.

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That's great!

I pray for you for the Lord to reveal himself to you as you seek more of him in your life and his peace of mind.
I pray for you to be delivered and released from the chains of Satan and rediscover joy in the Lord in Jesus name.

I've had problems with addiction to heroin and most kind of illegal drugs for years upon years, now I've managed to stop the illegal drugs and it's not easy and also for me I could just kick someone in the head or something and take their money and go shoot up some junk again, there's neighbors that do heroin, I've been involved in serious crime just because of desperation and also because I've hated myself and out of a will of self-destruction, but it's no solution. My point is that there's always going to be temptations, but drink is no better then shooting up junk, actually it's worse, because as a junkie you can't live a lie anymore, and it's easier to see how bad it really get sometimes, sitting at some urine-soaked public toilet and shooting some Taliban-founded garbage into the blood, that's not easy to get to seem as a good and harmless thing, or socially acceptable, yet addiction is addiction. When it comes to alcohol you can't just quit "cold turkey" and specially not do the smokes the same time, or you are probably just asking for a good reason to give up.

What you could do is ask a doctor for some tranquilizers and the problem are that those are addictive as well, but at least the pink elephants won't trample you down. Just black humor about kicking peoples head and pink elephants, but it's because I feel with you and I hate that both friends and fellow Christians brothers and sisters have to live with the boot of the devil on their neck like this. So I don't know if God will listen, but I pray in truth and with conviction that you might find a way off the drinking, and then the smokes will be a easy thing. I'm thinking of stopping the smokes as well soon, and I don't worry about the smokes, since nothing is as bad as getting used to being sober and feeling as there's no pacifier in the form of a bottle or needles to put in the arms or anything at all to help hide from the world and how hopeless and dangerous and thoughtless and uncaring it seem to be. It's like lying out in the open bleeding, and having to feel ashamed of people seeing how bad it is bleeding like that, and none of them seem to care. The devil casts some awful lies upon us. The feeling that there's no love is one such lie, but there's both life and love.

I'm only rambling, so I'm sorry, I really hope you manage to find a way and I know it's easy to despair and difficult to succeed. Try to get some exercise daily and someone to talk to, because alone, all alone things become harder than it really is. In the name of Jesus, I pray for you to be released, amen.