Reasons Why You Should Stop Alcohol Consumption
- It affects your health
- It affects your relationships with family and loved ones
- It can damage your records
- It can put you in jail and ruin your future
- It can lead to alcohol poisoning which can kill you
Tips to Help You Quit Dinking
- Clean your home and work of all alcohol
- Avoid skipping meals
- Change your group of drinking friends
- Change the spots you visit frequently
- Set realistic quitting goals for yourself
- Decide and apply positive reinforcement
- Empower and educate yourself
- Be determined to work hard at it
- Quitting is a long difficult road so be determined to apply patience
- Visualize your sober, happy self and be determined not to allow anything derail your resolve to quit
Risks and Consequences of Alcoholism
- Anemia and fatigue
- Cancer of the breast, esophagus, colon, pharynx and larynx
- Cardiovascular problems
- Liver cirrhosis
- Dementia and instability
- Depression, anxiety and mental health problems
- Seizures
- Gout
- High blood pressure, kidney and heart diseases
- Infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS.STDs through risky sexual behavior
- Tuberculosis and pneumonia due to decreased body immunity
- Nerve damage including erectile dysfunction
- Deformities in unborn babies
- Low birth weights, miscarriages and premature births
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs)
- Social problems, broken homes and marriages and loss of employment
- Injurie including motor accidents, falls, drownings, and burns.
- Domestic violence, homicides, suicides, sexual assaults, and intimate partner violence
Stop the drink and save your
life now!
