Just Archive

3 of 7 – Rethinking Drinking: Should I Cut Back, or Quit? | Moderate Drinking Series

Moderate Drinking – The Seven Blog Series Blog 3 of 7 Rethinking Drinking: Should I Cut Back, or Quit? Preamble If you’ve come here after searching on this issue, it’s likely that you’re wondering about your drinking and whether or not you should cut back to reduce alcohol-related problems or risks for problems. If you’ve […]

How to Cut Back on Drinking & Chain Drinking: 9 Steps To Success

Having alcohol problems and need to break the habit of drinking too much? This is the fifth of a series of posts on moderate drinking. If you’ve come here after searching on this issue, it’s likely that you’re wondering about your drinking and whether or not you should cut back to reduce alcohol-related problems or […]

Rethinking Drinking: Should I Cut Back or Quit?

If you’ve come here after searching on this issue, it’s likely that you’re wondering about your drinking, you are rethinking and whether or not you should cut back to minimize related problems. If you’ve not read the previous post I recommend doing so as they build on each other. The first post covered definitions of […]

How to Deal with Alcohol Cravings: 16 Effective Ways to Beat Your Cravings (Plus CMT Vs MBRP)

When you are attempting to make changes to your drinking habits or drug use, it can be frustrating trying to figure out how to control urges. You might be doing your best to avoid taking drugs or drinking, but you still find yourself having drug and alcohol urges or cravings. Not all is lost, however.  […]

How to Help Someone Who Binge Drinks (Plus Binge Vs Heavy Drinking)

Binge drinking is a widespread problem in the U.S. Data shows that one in six Americans tends to binge drink from time to time – with 25% of them doing it on a weekly basis. Binge drinking can not only affect a person’s health but can also have social and economic consequences. People who binge […]

Dryuary Tips: How to Stop Drinking for One Month

Having alcohol problems and need to break the habit of drinking too much? We are all creatures of habit, and certain habits like drinking too much can be a challenge to change. This is why CheckUp &Choices recommends doing a “30”to help you start to change your drinking. Taking a “30” makes a clean break […]

6 of 7 – How to Cut Back on Drinking & Chain Drinking: 9 Steps to Success | Moderate Drinking Series

Moderate Drinking – The Seven Blog Series Blog 6 of 7 How to Cut Back On Drinking & Chain Drinking: 9 Steps to Success Preamble If you’ve come here after searching on this issue, it’s likely that you’re wondering about your drinking and whether or not you should cut back to reduce alcohol-related problems or […]

A Review of Digital Tools for Alcohol Problems

We and others have been developing and evaluating digital tools to help people with alcohol problems for over 20 years now. And an analysis of the field (the first) has just been published. It gets a bit into the weeds but if you’ll stick with it, there’s good news at the end. Brian Kiluk and […]