I Gave Up Alcohol For 100 Days – Here’s What I Learned
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Have you seen headlines like this? Alcohol sales have suffered – and some blame the rampant rise of the “sober curious”! So, I ran an impromptu experiment: stop drinking for 100 days and report back. The benefits surprised me! And although I am back to enjoying a spirit or two, I learned a few really important lessons that changed me for the better (just not the lessons I expected). This report includes a dash of news with a mix of personal reflection. What’s our next “SmartHER in 100 days”??
Show Notes:
In the red: global wine sales fall to lowest levels since 1961 (The Guardian)
Wine industry uncertainty tied to shifts in drinking habits (NBC Bay Area)
Lower-end wines drag on Constellation Brands Q1 results just before big sale (North Bay Business Journal)
Young men are binge drinking less than young women for the 1st time. What's going on? (Yahoo)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, guys. I recently ran an experiment on myself, and I would like to share the results with you. |
| 0:12.1 | And this is loosely tied to some recent news items. |
| 0:16.2 | So we're going to do a little bit of news, some headlines related to a topic that's not getting |
| 0:21.4 | necessarily front page attention, but could be interesting to you. |
| 0:24.6 | And then I'm going to share some personal reflections and the results of this experiment, which |
| 0:31.5 | was accidentally, well, maybe not accidentally, but stumbling into a project of 100 days not drinking alcohol |
| 0:41.0 | and what I learned from that experience and what I did not learn. |
| 0:44.3 | Let me start with this question. |
| 0:45.5 | Are you drinking more or less alcohol than you did a few years ago? |
| 0:48.7 | I mean, think back to the pandemic. |
| 0:50.0 | Are you drinking more or less alcohol than compared to that time period? |
| 0:53.8 | What about family and friends? |
| 0:55.4 | Do you notice anything different just anecdotally with your own behavior? |
| 0:59.2 | Maybe you're drinking more. |
| 1:00.1 | Maybe you're drinking less. |
| 1:01.3 | But I'm curious about your feedback on that. |
| 1:03.7 | And the reason why I'm curious about that is that we're seeing quite a few headlines related |
| 1:08.0 | to the alcohol industry and overall dropping sales. And this really |
| 1:12.4 | got my attention. Again, we've been dealing with a lot of really serious news over the last several |
| 1:16.6 | months. But I've seen a sort of a pace and a momentum related to this story where you're |
| 1:24.6 | actually seeing reports of vineyards, for example, in Napa, pulling out their vines |
| 1:31.4 | because of dropping sales. So that sounds really extreme. That got my attention a few months ago. |
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