Do NOT Do THIS When Quitting Alcohol

When it comes to alcohol and stopping drinking , you are being lied to and right now , in this very moment , you have a choice . Do you want to keep being lied to ? Do you want to take the blue pill like in the movie the Matrix and just see life the way that it is and never really question anything ?

Or are you going to sit and watch this entire video and find out the truth ? Because in this video , I need to restore some truth , because I am so sick of seeing this lie . It is pissing me off and I'm getting angry just talking about it , because you wait for what's to come in this video and listen .

If you don't like conflict , if you don't like drama , don't watch this video , because I'm going to call people out in this video because I am sick to death of it . This advice is killing people . It's an outright lie . This video could be the one that just makes everything click for you and you can put alcohol behind of you and move on with your life .

That's my intention with this video . You don't want to miss this one . So , for those of you that are new here , my name is Leon Sylvester . I drank alcohol for close to 10 years and the lie that I'm going to talk to you about in this video did a lot of damage to me during those 10 years . It was something that kept me stuck for so long .

So I make videos now about truth . Right , I'm trying to restore truth to this whole industry of alcohol and stopping drinking , and I'm not here today to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside or keep you entertained , like Mr Beast .

I am here to give you truth , and the reason why I'm making this video this is just a quick tangent , a quick side note is me and my friend . We were talking about podcasts and we noticed a pattern . I don't know if you've seen these podcasts at the moment , but you know they get two very high status people sat down having a conversation with each other .

You'll get some expert and some expert podcaster , and I don't know if you've noticed , but have you ever noticed in these podcasts that they're searching for the truth ? I've never seen it . It's two people that don't want to upset each other .

They're kind of almost just asking these really easy questions , letting them say whatever they want , and there's never any pushback , there's never any dive into any specific thing that they said . It happens , but it's so rare and anyway , the way that I saw this live is I was scrolling on Instagram , so I've recently started posting more on Instagram .

You can find me at SoberLeon and I've kept off Instagram for a long time . I think it's brain rot , right . I think it's very addictive and you can't really get in depth in things like you can on YouTube . But I've started posting on Instagram now and I kept seeing this advice and I'm like dude , is there something wrong with Instagram ?

Are these people having a joke ? What is this thing that I'm talking about ? Let me get into it . So I'll see a post and it might be , I don't know 10 ways to live healthier and the post will say exercise more no-transcript less . Do you know how many times I've seen this advice to drink less ? This isn't advice . This is ridiculous .

It is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life . See , in my own life , when I drank for 10 years , I tried to drink less . In fact , every single time that I drink a lot , I always had the intention to not drink much . I'd vow to myself right tonight I'm gonna have one drink and then that's it .

And you know what , sometimes I might manage to do that . Most of the time I wouldn't . Most of the time , I'd always drink more than I intended to . Now , sure , not everybody is like this , but to just give this advice of drink less and then put it out to everybody , it's just ludicrous . It's a little bit like the podcast that I was talking about earlier .

Rather than search for the truth and really unpack this idea of drinking less , they just say it because they don't want to upset their audience . They don't want to upset the people that consume this content . Listen , I don't care if I upset people . I want you to see the truth .

That's all that matters to me , because I have a 0% success rate of drinking less . And that's not just me . In fact , the vast majority of people who try to apply this advice of drinking less never find success with this advice . It is terrible advice and it works for a small percentage of the population .

How many people have you met in your life that drink less , that were drinking a lot and then all of a sudden , they've managed to miraculously start drinking half the amount that they used to .

It's so rare and even if they managed to do it , it only usually works for a short period of time before it's like an elastic band that just breaks and then they're out of control again . That's what happened to me and for most people . This is terrible , terrible advice . Just think about it for a second .

Let's say I have a crack cocaine problem , right , and I've got this terrible problem with this drug . It's destroying my life . And then I scroll on Instagram and it's saying you know , if you want to be healthier , meditate , eat more vegetables and smoke less crap . What would you think to that ? You know that person would be oh my gosh , they'd be attacked .

They'd be Reddit posts saying this person . I can't believe they're saying this . But then the individual that's telling us to drink less . It's fine , but just look at this graph for a minute . This graph shows the severity of addiction and the damage that the drug does to you . Where do you see alcohol ? We don't see alcohol at the bottom .

We see this at the peak , one of the most dangerous and addictive drugs known to man and we're being told to drink less . Dude , what are you talking about , in fact ? Listen , I'm not here to name names and shame anybody I have seen . Stop drinking coaches . Listen to me . Stop drinking coaches say that they still drink alcohol . What is going on ?

Have we lost our minds ? What is alcohol ? Right , let's unpack it . Let's ignore the conditioning . Let's ignore the way that the media has told us to view it . Let's ignore the marketing messages that have been pushed on us by billions of pounds of advertising spend . Let's ignore all of that and unpack alcohol . What is it ? Alcohol is ethanol .

What do we use ethanol for ? What do we use ethanol for ? What do we use alcohol for ? We use it to clean things as an industrial cleaner . We use it as fuel . What does it do for our bodies ? Nothing . Do you know what it does for our bodies ? Causes cancer . Do you know what else it does ? Gives us cirrhosis of the liver .

Do you know what it does for our relationships ? Can destroy them . So just drink less . Just drink less of that cancer-causing substance . Just drink less of that thing that can destroy your liver . In fact , drink less of that thing that pretty much destroys every cell it comes into contact with what is going on out here .

I am sick to death of this advice of drink less . Be honest with yourself . Listen . If you like this advice of drink less , what are you going to tell your children ? Don't drink or drink less , what do you really want your children to do ? Do you want your children to grow up drinking this drug ? I don't .

If I could wave a magic wand , they'd never touch it . Listen , I won't be able to control that . That's going to be their decision , but I'm going to have conversations so they can see the lies , see the nonsense , because unpack it . Alcohol is ethanol . It's a highly addictive , cancer-causing drug that does nothing . Things have changed now .

There was a study done in 2018 that shows that there is zero amount of alcohol that is safe to drink . There is no recommended amount to drink anymore . Sure , alcohol companies have lobbied governments to say that there's a recommended daily allowance , the same way that there's a recommended daily intake of protein . Oh , what the heck is going on .

Listen , I'm one guy giving you this message . This video might get 5,000 , 10,000 , 20,000 views , whatever . Do you think that that's going to be enough to combat the billions of dollars of advertising spend that have been pushed on you from day one of being born , the people that watch it .

I hope so , but think of all the other people that are listening to this nonsense advice . Alcohol is a drug and drugs are a chain reaction . You drink one and then you want to drink more and more and more . There's no such thing as drinking less . If you could drink less , you'd already drink less . Are there people out there that drink less ?

Yes , should we try to emulate that ? Absolutely not . We should see those people that drink less and feel sorry for them . Why would they even want to do that in the first place ? That's the right mindset . So just know , when you see this advice of drinking less , remember this video , remember this message , come back to it .

And hey , maybe you should leave a comment on these people that are telling us to drink less and tell them they're out of their mind .

And one last important point that I need to get clear A lot of the times in my material , in my content on this YouTube channel , I will talk about controlling your drinking , but I never really truly explain what control means . So I do get a few comments here and there . People say this guy's crazy , you can't control your drinking .

Yeah , you're right , but you can control it . But we need to define control . I am in control of jumping in front of a bus . I can control myself . I can choose not to , or I can choose to jump in front of it I can . I'm also in control of crack cocaine . I can smoke crack cocaine whenever I want .

Okay , it's illegal , so let's just ignore that aspect of things . But you get the point . I am in control of murder . You are in control of these things , but because you know that they're the wrong thing to do , you don't do them . That's true control .

We live in a world where you will have to control yourself around alcohol , but that doesn't mean that you're going to control your drinking . Have one or two drinks . True control is being able to see that thing but having no desire to do it . That is true control . So don't drink less . Take control of alcohol . Take control of your life .

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