Tools and Tips for Self-Management
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Making Changes on Your Own
What it is
Strategies you can use with or without formal treatment to help you monitor, cut down, or stop drinking.
Tips
- Measure drinks so you know your intake.
- Set achievable goals.
- Share your goals with a trusted friend.
- Reward yourself for milestones.
- Track meaningful changes
Ideas
- Track your drinking with an app, journal, or calendar.
- Set small, realistic goals (e.g., drinks per day or weekly spend).
- Alternate drinks with non-alcoholic beverages.
- Eat before drinking to slow absorption.
- Limit the number of days you drink each week.
- Remove alcohol from your home.
- List alcohol-free activities you enjoy and swap them in.
- Seek support from people who’ve made changes.
- Use free tools like Rethinking Drinking for self-assessment and tracking.
PROS
- Flexible and free
- You set the pace and your goals
Things to Consider
- Less built-in support—you may need to build your own support network.
- You set the pace and your goals.
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Tools and Tips for Self-Management
Explore
Making Changes on Your Own
What it is
Strategies you can use with or without formal treatment to help you monitor, cut down, or stop drinking.
Tips
Ideas
PROS
Things to Consider
ALEX's STORY