Hello,

I have just registered after reading on Wikipedia about the Sinclair Method.

My alcohol career started about 3 years ago - since then I notice a constant increase in alcohol craving and drinking.
The need to drive the car still stops me to start too early to drink on the day. On days where I am not going to work and my girlfriend is not here I start to drink around early afternoon and keep on until late evening.

My favourite drink is whisky - I noticed since some weeks, that I don't drink it slowly anymore, but just put 2 glasses down like medicine to get effects as fast as possible. A Whisky bottle lasts 3-7 days currently. My extremst day was a week back with 3/4 bottle of whisky in one day.

I manage to stay strictly off alcohol for days. But the Craving during those days is getting worse and worse. My thoughts are turning around alcohol all the time and how I can get it, and have my girlfriend not noticing too much of it.

I hope to get my drinking habit under control now - the social - gf - work impact is not so big yet comparing to some articles on the web.

Will start tomorrow with my first ReVia take before drink. Will report more over the next days.

Thanks for this great board and this great opportunity to help so many people with the difficult subject alcohol!

Welcome to our group!

It's a long journey, but at least its a lot shorter journey than the one that got us here... in your case only 3 years. Some of use have been drunks for decades. Anyway, you'll probably have the Nal honeymoon period where you see immediate effect, then that will pass and you may get discouraged. Many do. I did and I probably will be discouraged again.

The point is you make a 6 month commitment and stick with it and NEVER GIVE UP. If nothing happens after 6 months, no harm done; but most likely (80%), pharmacological extinction will occur and you'll be in control again! Keep a record of the number of "units" you are drinking and also a subjective craving number (1-10), then chart that over the next 16 to 26 weeks. It appears (to me at least) that after 10 weeks or so, significant positive changes will occur. I have not read otherwise.

Anyway, consider that in under a half year you will not only be in control of your drinking, but you will be CURED!

Bob

Thanks bob for the welcome.

It is a little bit like loosing weight. You add up loosing weight for 5 years - and then you want to loose it in a month.

I trained my body to need alcohol for 3 years - it would be actually also fair to give it 3 years to get rid of it.

I am highly concerned about my drinking - if I have a way to re-train my body learning by doing then I simply have to do it and stick with it.

So it will start off that the craving highly reduces and then after a few weeks it will appear to come back to normal, and then the body will learn over time (something like 6 months) to understand that this thing is not something 'needed' - something 'enjoyed' yes - but not 'needed'.

It is good to know that upfront that way I do not get over-excited (when I see instant results) and frustrated (when it comes back to normal).

Thanks for your help!

My craving is only at the evening/night - when I use to drink.

So at least my body is only trained yet to crave for alcohol at evening/night.
In the morning and early afternoon it lets me relax a bit.

will start tonight with my first ReVia...

Welcome, craving. Please read the "What to Expect" forum thoroughly, as that will help prepare you for the sometimes rocky journey of The Sinclair Method. Also, if you don't yet have Dr. Eskapa's book, The Cure for Alcoholism, be sure to pick up a copy. It's our handbook for success. Dr. Eskapa has generously posted parts of it online here - but there are case histories, charts and graphs, detailed studies, in the book that are invaluable additions.

Here's to a new YOU!