This KILLS Alcohol Cravings FAST

Why do some people never drink again after stopping drinking ? Yet so many of us fail . After a week , a month , a year , something always seems to bring us back to the drink . I've failed myself , stopping and starting for almost 10 years , and I'll tell you what it is , and it's one word cravings .

Cravings are the hardest thing for somebody to deal with that's trying to stop drinking . They will wreck havoc on your sobriety . Cravings have defeated me countless times , but I'm going to say something a little bit shocking for you right now . In the past six years without drinking , I have not had a single alcohol craving None .

And today , in this video , I am going to share my secret with you . I'm going to show you how you can eliminate alcohol cravings so you can stay on a path of not drinking alcohol without even trying . I seriously mean it . I want stopping drinking to feel like giving up milk , right , who cares If I gave up milk tomorrow ?

I'm good , I could go and walk in a convenience store and see milk and feel nothing . But that's how I feel about alcohol and it's because I don't get cravings . Let me break it down for you . So when I used to drink alcohol for the 10 years that I tried to stop and start all the time I've tried different methods .

I remember trying to stop on my own , but that was never successful , ever . It might last a few days , but a craving would always lead me back to drinking . I have actually gone seven , eight , nine months with just using willpower before , but again the cravings got me . But when I was in my early twenties , I went to AA meetings .

I also went to NA meetings , so that's like Narcotics Anonymous , because I was just listen . I don't really talk about everything on this channel . I really try and keep it focused to alcohol . But listen , when I was drinking it wasn't just drinking , it was just chaos . But it was always the alcohol that would lead into other things .

So I knew that if I fixed the alcohol , then everything else would take care of itself . Now I've never actually explained the full story of why I went to AA . So what basically happened is I was just being an idiot . I wasn't living at home , I'd already been , you know , I'd had a bad relationship with my family .

I was out of the house when I was about . I think I was just turned 17 and I was out . I was not living at home anymore and it sounds really silly to say this , but I can't remember the exact age , 1920 or 21 . And I got really bad food poisoning . I ate this chicken , right .

I remember biting the chicken and I saw it and I showed the person that cooked it and they were like no , it's fine , it's fine , trust me . I'm like , okay , and I ate the whole thing . And I knew I should have listened to myself .

And I was just on a couch for like four days and during that four days I stopped smoking cigarettes for one of the first times ever and I didn't touch any substance , right , no , alcohol , no weed , nothing . And around day four I remember calling my mum and I was like oh my days , I just feel so much better .

And she was so happy to hear it and she said then she said , right , come home . And I remember this feeling of like oh my God , yes . And I remember going home and she said I'll make you a deal I'm going to take you to a meeting tomorrow and if you can stay sober , you can stay at home , which was a pretty good deal at the time .

And I did it right . I went to meetings . I went for about three months . I stayed sober . But I want to tell you something Whilst I was going to meetings , calling myself an alcoholic , saying I was powerless , begging to God to help me every time that I wanted to drink . Why was I doing that ? Why was I having to ask God to help me stop drinking ?

Because I never addressed the root cause . I was still suffering from cravings . There was still something inside of me in these meetings that wanted me to drink . I don't know what it was , but there was something always pulling me to alcohol . So I had to go to a meeting .

I had no choice because I thought that if I didn't go to a meeting , guess what's going to happen ? I'm just going to make a dumb decision . So I'll go to a meeting , I'll pray and eventually I had enough of it and I stopped going to the meetings . I moved out of my parents' house and guess what happened ? Obviously , started drinking again .

All the chaos restarted in my life and that was the end of that chapter . And then I tried going back a couple of times to AA , but I just knew it wasn't going to work . I didn't want to spend the rest of my life resisting alcohol and going to meetings just to not drink . Listen , that worked for my mum .

Of course she wanted me to go there because she's not drank for over 20 years . She used that method , saved her life , saved my life . You know , if my mum hadn't done that , maybe I wouldn't have ever got sober , maybe I wouldn't have got that first taste of 90 days and you know , good things happen in those 90 days .

But I knew that that wasn't gonna work for me . And sure it took many years for me to get back on track , drinking six years ago for real , when I really shifted everything . I don't get cravings anymore . So I don't have to go to meetings . I don't call myself an alcoholic . I don't need to beg God to help me get through a craving .

I don't use any willpower . I don't go to meetings . I don't take medication . I don't see a therapist . I don't do anything that everybody else was telling me I should do to stop drinking . I do none of it . So let me explain what happened to me and how it's so easy for me to not crave alcohol .

So one thing that I actually learned in AA right , there are still things that I learned there that were actually pretty good . There's a lot of self-help content . Actually , I'll give you my favorite thing that I learned in AA . But they would always say that the best is yet to come .

If you stick on this path , right , if you don't drink and you just keep going , the best to avoid being H-A-L-T , which stands for hungry , angry , lonely and tired , because when you're any of these things , you don't feel right within yourself . If you're hungry , you feel discomfort . If you're lonely , you don't feel good . If you're tired , you feel drained .

And if you're angry I mean you're angry , right Like you just don't feel yourself . And the reason why this is important is because , when we've spent 10 years drinking alcohol , whenever we get some kind of negative emotion , what's our default response ? When we're feeling a little bit worse than we usually feel , what do we do ?

Well , we don't sit there and meditate . We don't sit there and accept those feelings . No , what do we do ? We get a drink and what happens ? Those feelings disappear and when you stop drinking alcohol , you feel these emotions . You will feel hungry , you will get angry , you will feel lonely , you will feel tired . These just happen , it's just a part of life .

But when I was drinking , what do you think happens after I feel this emotion ? Well , I get a thought . Right , this is the next step . It's a thought . And what's that thought ? Oh , I don't feel good , drink it's . So . Let me explain this . So let's say I'm sat on my computer and my website's broken and I've got to fix my website .

And then I tried to go to the support and there's nobody there and they don't open until the next day , eastern time , at 11am . And I'm getting angry and I punch my desk and I think damn , I need a drink . When I was drinking alcohol .

If that happened , I would immediately then go to the next thought yeah , a drink would make me feel much better and much better . And then the next thought man , why are we even stopping drinking in the first place ? It's a stupid idea .

And then the next thought oh , let's just get one drink today , it'll just make us feel a bit better and let's just go and chill out . Screw work , who cares ? Which would lead to the next thought Right , where's my phone ? I'm ordering some drinks . You see the path .

You feel a negative emotion , you don't feel right , which leads to a thought , which leads to another , and another , and another , and then , before you know it , you're craving alcohol , you want to drink because it's the only viable option for you to get rid of those negative emotions and you see it as a legitimate path away from the pain .

Ah see , this is the thing . You see it as a path away from pain . You're in pain and here's the solution . This was my problem when I went to AA , when I tried to stop drinking on my own , when I begged God to help me in church , when I dropped to my knees crying . I never addressed this . I still saw alcohol as a legitimate way out of pain .

And let's just really think about that for a second . How ludicrous is that ? The drug that caused me so much damage ? I was still seeing it as a way out of pain . How does that make any sense ?

Something that was making me fat , tired , lethargic , something that was destroying my self-confidence , that had destroyed a business , that had destroyed relationships , something that had wrecked my life . There was still part of me that saw it as a solution to my problems . How mad is that ? And this is the reality for most people that are trying to stop drinking .

They never address the root cause , which is in their belief systems . So let me tell you what happens today when I think of drinking Because , listen , it doesn't happen very often . The first couple of years it would happen maybe every month , every two months , and I've not had this thought for maybe a year .

I remember the last time I had it , it was about a year ago . I remember I live in Dubai , so I was walking down the beach in Dubai and then we walked past this bar and it said Stella Artois , which is like a lager , and I was like whoa beer , and I got the thought Listen , everybody gets these . It doesn't matter what you do .

You will think about alcohol at some point in your life , because it's just the world that we live in . You'll see friends drinking . You'll watch a movie and see your favourite character pour in a whisky or some crap . Everybody gets these thoughts of alcohol . But what do you think happened ?

See , when I walked past that bar during that decade of me struggling to not drink , what do you think would have happened ? Oh , I mean , I've been walking ages . I my legs are tired . Oh , wouldn't a drink be nice ? Yeah , that'd make me feel better . Oh , but Leon , you don't drink . Yeah , but let's just have one . Boom finished . The craving just built up .

But let me tell you how my inner conversation goes . I walk past that bar and I think Stella Artois and immediately I feel repulsion . I look at those people drinking no-transcript recollection of what happened . You're going to feel terrible , you're going to feel a little bit sick and you're going to wish that you didn't do it .

And we're in the same thing , we're in the same area and I'm going to wake up tomorrow feeling happy and refreshed . And he's going to wake up feeling defeated , feeling like damn , that was a dumb idea . See , my belief system is that I don't want

to drink . I see no benefit to drinking alcohol at all . I don't see it as a solution out of pain . I see it as a solution to getting in more pain . Do you see the difference ?

If you associate tremendous amounts of pain and disgust and you just don't want to put that stuff in your body , you can see no benefit to drinking it compared to the person that doesn't see it that way , and they still see it as a legitimate solution out of pain . Are you seeing the difference here ? You've got to change the way that you view alcohol .

There is no other way for you to do this . I don't care if you want to go to AA meetings , go to a rehab , see a therapist , do it Great . If you don't address this root cause of the way that you view alcohol , I promise you one thing you will spend the next 20 years of your life not finding it easy .

You need to be able to have these thoughts and you need to see alcohol as poison . Right ? Ethanol it's disgusting , because once you do that , stopping drinking is easy . Right , it's the easiest thing I've ever done . It's been six years .

I have no desire to drink , and if you want help reframing alcohol , either watch the 600 videos on this channel or just go to SoberClearcom to learn more about how we actually work with people and get them through this process . I'm not saying you can't do it on your own . You can do this on your own .

But the reality is is that if you could stop drinking on your own , you'd already be sober . So there's day . Thanks for checking out the Stop Drinking Podcast by Sober Clear If you want to learn more about how we work with people to help them stop drinking effortlessly , then make sure to visit wwwsoberclearcom .