EP 546: Reader Question - Can you quit drinking without counting days?

This Naked Mind Podcast

Annie Grace

Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Can you quit drinking without counting days? Is that even a thing? The idea of not counting days seems foreign to what most of us traditionally know when it comes to stopping drinking. Annie shares on her experience when quitting drinking and also dives into what the best way to approach counting days is.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by the Alcohol Experiment, a free 30-day challenge designed to interrupt
0:05.4	your patterns, give you control, restore your health and put you back in touch with the version of
0:10.2	you who doesn't eat alcohol to cope, relax or enjoy life. More than 220,000 people have already
0:16.8	tried the alcohol experiment for themselves and has seen improved sleep, increased happiness,
0:21.4	reduced anxiety and so much more. Join thousands in this inspiring, hopeful and exciting program,
0:27.2	we examine your beliefs and reconnect with the best version of you without ever feeling like
0:32.0	you're missing out. Start today for free at alcoholexperiment.com.
0:37.6	Is there a way to do this without having to count days? Okay, so I never count days.
0:45.1	Okay, so there's two types of people and some people are totally motivated by counting days. They're
0:51.4	like, yes, it's a notch in my belt, it's progress, I feel good, I want to celebrate the milestones
0:55.9	and some people are totally either not motivated because counting days feels heavy or they're like
1:02.9	me where I didn't count days because I just didn't want to drink. It wasn't for me, like I literally
1:09.0	walked out of my office and told my husband and just didn't want to drink anymore and I wouldn't
1:13.8	have counted days since the day I decided not to drink, you know, I remember deciding not to drink
1:18.3	soda and again not to drink soda for me, it was probably my early 20s and I saw one of those
1:23.6	dang ads that like had, I lived in New York City and there was these ads and they had soda pouring
1:29.9	into and it turned into like actual fat cells in the glass and it was one of these visuals that
1:34.4	you just could not unsee and then there was other ads talking about like the chemicals in the
1:40.0	sugar and that knowledge was like, oh my god, disgusting, I don't want to drink soda anymore.
1:44.5	And so I stopped drinking soda decades ago and it was like I never counted days because it was
1:51.2	just like on a dime. I saw that was the same thing that happened to me with alcohol. It was on a
1:54.9	dime, like I changed. Now it was on a dime that happened after a process of learning new things,
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