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What's the longest amount of time you've gone without a drink?

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    #32
    reverenddave
    Registered Users Posts: 805 ✭✭✭reverenddave


    since i turned 19 (6 1/2 years ago )

    on a few occasions i have went for a year or more without even going near a pub
    i've lost a lot of ''friends'' that way but fúck it my life is a lot better without these ''friends'' and i dont blow all my money in the pub


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    #33
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Time for some back seat modding

    Starbelgrade and lemsiper are both banned from posting in this thread

    any problems PM me

    i have an ichy foot
    i sent a pm but you have not helped my problem


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    #34
    up for anything
    Registered Users Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭up for anything


    A couple of glasses of Baileys twice a year. That's about it. Don't miss it and I'm glad I never really got a taste for it because when I'm feeling down and times are hard (all the time lately) I think it would be nice to drown my sorrows in a glass of something but then I remember the three day hangover that follows a glass or a bottle and decide against it.


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    #35
    Dravokivich
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    A few days before going 20 I fúcked myself up big time on a session, wasnt able to eat much for 3 days afterwards. didn't drink again until about a week after I went 21.


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    #36
    NothingMan
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    A few days before going 20 I fúcked myself up big time on a session, wasnt able to eat much for 3 days afterwards. didn't drink again until about a week after I went 21.


    That's horrible Drav, I hope you're well on the road to recovery.:D


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    #37
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    i could easily go a few months without drinking alcohol

    i tend to drive a lot when going out as i live a bit far out to be getting taxis and plus it means i avoid drunken antics and horrible hangovers!


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    #38
    AckwelFoley
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    I went just short of 2 years.

    I was 24 and needed to do a little copping on and life direction and needed to save some money to acomplish some goals.

    Gave it up and since then i just drink when i want to, which generally is about twice or 3 times a month


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    #39
    Auldloon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Auldloon


    I quit for about 6 months on my 18th birthday. My mode of transport to and from the local pub at that time was one of the farm tractors, I put it on its roof that night. Happy birthday to me...
    That was 20 years ago have managed not to go very long without since.


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    #40
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Chuileog wrote: »
    I quit for about 6 months on my 18th birthday. My mode of transport to and from the local pub at that time was one of the farm tractors, I put it on its roof that night. Happy birthday to me...
    That was 20 years ago have managed not to go very long without since.

    Thank god for roll bars


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    #41
    PeterIanStaker
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    15 years.


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    #42
    LimeFruitGum
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    Four months when I was 21, as I was on medication at the time.


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    #43
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Lemsiper wrote: »
    You must have misread my question, I didn't mention anything about posting a link to prove you can't understand basic English.

    Que?


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    #44
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    I made a decision to stop drinking in Feb 2006. So that's 4and a half years I've gone without a drink so far. And I never felt better.


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    #45
    Snowie
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    just over 2 years. I like getting high insted...


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    #46
    minidazzler
    Registered Users Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    kelle wrote: »
    I made a decision to stop drinking in Feb 2006. So that's 4and a half years I've gone without a drink so far. And I never felt better.

    Have a few drinks, bet you will feel better then!


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    #47
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    4 or 5 nights. Serious state of self-recrimination now after another 4 day binge weekend and it's affecting a relationship with someone very close to me so think i need to stop! Too heavy for AH...


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    #48
    starbelgrade
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    4 or 5 nights. Serious state of self-recrimination now after another 4 day binge weekend and it's affecting a relationship with someone very close to me so think i need to stop! Too heavy for AH...

    Ah tell us more. We won't tell anyone.


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    #49
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Ah tell us more. We won't tell anyone.

    God I'm so depressed...


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    #50
    Skerries
    Registered Users Posts: 12,442 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    how about a nice cup of tea?
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    #51
    starlit
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    The longest I have gone without an alcoholic drink is about 3 months, often be a month or a month and a half. The longest I have gone without going out drinking booze is about 6 months though.


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    #52
    starbelgrade
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    God I'm so depressed...

    All right, you can stop there.


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    #53
    Rud
    Registered Users Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Rud


    18 years


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    #54
    [Deleted User]
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    8 years. :)
    Best thing I ever did.


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    #55
    Wibbs
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    All of my 20's with a year or two after.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #56
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    9 months, break of 5 months, 9 months again...


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    #57
    bluecatmorgana
    Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭bluecatmorgana


    euwh


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    #58
    Shulgin
    Registered Users Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Shulgin


    About a year. I gave up drinking alcohol more or less a couple of years ago. Just doesn't suit the old noggin.


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    #59
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    I don't know. Not much of a drinker. Don't keep track. About 4 or 5 months I'd say. Probably more.


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    #60
    TouchingVirus
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    LimeFruitGum wrote: »
    Four months when I was 21, as I was on medication at the time.

    Sounds like Roaccutaine to me ;)


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    #61
    CorkMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    2 weeks when I was in the Sahara Desert.

    Oh man, I started to fantasize about a pint of Heineken then!


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