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  2. What Does Being Sober Mean? The Details on Alcohol-Free Living

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    For heavy drinkers, curbing or quitting alcohol can reduce the risk of death and ailments like these, along with many other destructive effects of excessive alcohol use. (Abruptly stopping alcohol ...

  3. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Alcohol depresses the central nervous system, slowing cerebral messaging and altering the way signals are sent and received. Progressively larger amounts of alcohol are needed to achieve the same physical and emotional results. The drinker eventually must consume alcohol just to avoid the physical cravings and withdrawal symptoms.

  4. Ready To Start Drinking Less? These Therapist-Approved Tips ...

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    When the 30 minutes is up, feel free to order an alcoholic drink if you want one—or maybe you end up opting to wait another 30 minutes, and then another 30, and so on. 3. Take the lead when ...

  5. After 25 years, I wanted to quit drinking and couldn't. Here ...

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    Sometimes giving up drinking involves anhedonia, which is an inability to find pleasure in the activities you once enjoyed. But you can help avoid that feeling by keeping active.

  6. Short-term effects of alcohol consumption - Wikipedia

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    Previous experience with alcohol also influences the extent to which alcohol positively or negatively affects sleep. Under free-choice conditions, in which subjects chose between drinking alcohol or water, inexperienced drinkers were sedated while experienced drinkers were stimulated following alcohol consumption. [65]

  7. Sobriety - Wikipedia

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    Sober curious is a cultural movement and lifestyle of practicing none or limited alcohol consumption which started spreading in the late 2010s, in particular among people from the millennial generation. Sober curiosity is often defined as having the option to question or change one's drinking habits, for mental or physical health reasons. [10]

  8. Drinking while sober: how Americans are redefining what it ...

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    The surgeon general's recent warning that alcohol can cause cancer reiterated for a lot of people something they already (begrudgingly) knew: Drinking is not good for you. The proportion of ...

  9. Alcohol tolerance - Wikipedia

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    Alcohol tolerance is increased by regular drinking. [1] This reduced sensitivity to the physical effects of alcohol consumption requires that higher quantities of alcohol be consumed in order to achieve the same effects as before tolerance was established. Alcohol tolerance may lead to (or be a sign of) alcohol dependence. [1]