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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you can stop smoking cold turkey.You can stop almost anything.Smoking is extremely addicting.I quit cold turkey 4/01/1991.Also alcohol is out of your system after 3 days.It's the psychological part that is hard for people I guess.Stop for 3 days and grow a pair and stay sober.I know it's a disease but there is a cure.Don't drink ever again!!!  Just like I can't smoke ever again or I'm hooked again.Is it worth it to be the scourge of society.[/quote]

Please self educate before you make sweeping statements.

Withdrawing from alcohol is the only kind of withdrawal that can actually kill someone. Most people understand the awful process that someone withdrawing fromopiates goes through- but in general, they just wish they would die. An alcoholic going "cold turkey" can actually send their nervous system into such disarray that it actually can kill them. And the peak time is around 3 days after their last drink.

Alcohol use actually rewires certain chemical receptors in the brain, and the chemical storm and resulting recovery after quitting can still manifest years later as a post withdrawal syndrome. It's A PHYSICAL addiction, not purely psychological.

So, for a true alcoholic, putting down a drink is not as easy as you seem to think it is.

The real scourge of society is ignorance. [/quote]

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