How many days per week do you "drink"?

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How many days per week do you consume alcohol?

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    Votes: 10 17.2%
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    Votes: 11 19.0%
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    Votes: 8 13.8%
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    Votes: 7 12.1%
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    Votes: 4 6.9%
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    Votes: 8 13.8%
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    Votes: 10 17.2%

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A couple of people I work with will have some kind of alcohol nearly every day, be it a bottle of beer in the evening or a glass of wine. What do you do?I personally only drink any alcohol 3 or so times per year. Drinking alcohol does nothing for me and is only something I do to get drunk when on a boys night out.So what's your story?



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One, maybe two but no more. Even then it will be one or two drinks only. I can't handle my drink. I can go weeks without one and it is not a problem to do without. I certainly know people who are alcohol dependent and will drink every day. I don't thing they are full alcoholics but they are undoubtedly dependent in a way that is unhealthy.
 
I certainly know people who are alcohol dependent and will drink every day. I don't thing they are full alcoholics but they are undoubtedly dependent in a way that is unhealthy.

Sounds like my best mate, I didn't realise until last week he used to buy cans on his way home from school :eek:
He's 39 now and for as long as I've know him (about 7 years now) he's had at least 6 cans EVERY night and smokes 20-40 a day.
There's no telling him either.
 
Average week? I'd say four. I drink varied and expensive beers and I think nothing of having a beer or two on an evening to sample something new and different, be it one in the pub on the way home or one at home that I've previously purchased. It's akin to a hobby for me to try different beers. I've sampled over 1000 different beers so far and always adding to the list.

I rarely get properly drunk these days, but it does happen on the occasional weekend. ;)
 
It's a difficult one for me to answer as I work offshore so for half the year I don't drink at all. And for the other half of the year I drink far to heavily for it to be good for me. So I went for an average of 4 days per week as I'm tee total for 6 months and drink pretty much every day for the other 6 months. In my line of work it's affectionately known as "seahab" or "seatox" when we're away and are forced to let our livers recover.
 
I certainly know people who are alcohol dependent and will drink every day. I don't thing they are full alcoholics but they are undoubtedly dependent in a way that is unhealthy.

Isn't that what you would term a functioning alcoholic? I have admitted to drinking too much, and by that i dont mean going out on a friday and saturday and having 12 pints, i was (am) the more dangerous daily couple of cans or glasses, before you know it you empty the recycling the next day and there are 4 cans and an empty bottle of wine the mrs had one glass from.. Am on Dry January as i realize i was drinking too regularly and too much. Hoping thats the catalyst to a new lifestyle.

Around 2001 i went a whole year without drinking after i got my driving licence!
 
Went for the 4 and then it's just a beer or glass of wine a night with supper. If going out will lay off for 2-3 days before but even then will only be 2-3 drinks and HiD drives.
 
Rooter - It is a very interesting point you make and I would not argue against it. The lines are blurry certainly. There are two people I know well who fall into this category. I doubt there is a day where they do not have at least one drink and it is rarely just one. I tend to think of alcoholics as hiding bottles of spirits or having big beer sessions but the modern drinker knocks back wine with ease and nobody thinks twice about it.
 
I was talking to my daughter last night who was on about her hubby who drinks far to much. I mentioned I drink most days, but it's not a hard and fast rule.
last night I had one can of Boddys and I had had enough. Sometimes if we go out Missis T will say she don't mind driving back. After five or six hours and one pint later she will moan that she could of had a drink beacause I am OK to drive home.
 
Isn't that what you would term a functioning alcoholic? I have admitted to drinking too much, and by that i dont mean going out on a friday and saturday and having 12 pints, i was (am) the more dangerous daily couple of cans or glasses, before you know it you empty the recycling the next day and there are 4 cans and an empty bottle of wine the mrs had one glass from.. Am on Dry January as i realize i was drinking too regularly and too much. Hoping thats the catalyst to a new lifestyle.

Around 2001 i went a whole year without drinking after i got my driving licence!

What made you go back on it after proving that you could do without for a year?
I gave it up 4 years ago and, like the cigs, can't see any reason to go back on it. Costs too much, isn't healthy, hangovers (on the occasions that it's more than "a couple") meaning losing half a day feeling like crap as i got older and unable to process the toxins as efficiently.
I find people getting sponsored to give up alcohol a bit odd (but that's just me) and I used to laugh when my playing partner either turned up hanging out his back end, or not turning up at all due to being out the night before.... I don't laugh anymore as it's quite annoying when arrangements for games have been made.
 
Finding some of the answers here a little at odds with my experience - and hence impressive - as I know quite a lot of folk who drink every day - and for most that is likely to be more than one or two glasses. In fact when our children were younger I'd say ALL of our wide social group (aged early/mid-30s to mid-40s) drank every day and usually more than one or two glasses of wine. And they would be folk who would call themselves 'middle class professional' - so generalising hugely - like many if not most of us on here. My impression is that among that demographic there is a lot of dishonesty about the amount they drink.
 
What made you go back on it after proving that you could do without for a year?
I gave it up 4 years ago and, like the cigs, can't see any reason to go back on it. Costs too much, isn't healthy, hangovers (on the occasions that it's more than "a couple") meaning losing half a day feeling like crap as i got older and unable to process the toxins as efficiently.
I find people getting sponsored to give up alcohol a bit odd (but that's just me) and I used to laugh when my playing partner either turned up hanging out his back end, or not turning up at all due to being out the night before.... I don't laugh anymore as it's quite annoying when arrangements for games have been made.

You and me the same GiF - and btw I agree with you on this
 
What made you go back on it after proving that you could do without for a year?

I had lost my driving licence the year previous (not through drinking i might add!!!) and had smashed the bejeebus out of it for 12 months, so just took a break and it lasted a year! I like drinking, just drank so much for a year i didnt fancy it.

You and me the same GiF - and btw I agree with you on this

Me too, as i mentioned on the Dry Jan thread, I am doing it for me and not asking for money off people.
 
I drink because great beers taste as good as the best cook food.

I don't get people who drink rubbish like Carling, Fosters etc for the sake of it.
 
I have a drink at home most nights with the wife, we probably get through three bottles of wine a week, of which I probably drink nearer two thirds of that, which I believe to be too much.

New Year resolution is to cut down and have a couple of dry nights a week.
 
The wife and i have wine with almost every meal, except if .we were having a a burger or fish and chips.

She is a very good cook and we always have wine to complement the food.
 
I have been drinking a few glasses of wine most nights for quite a while (although have also tested myself by abstaining now and again) but I have now decided to go on the wagon for the remainder of January - couldn't really start until today as I had two final events as Captain of the club and sitting with a soft drink has never been my thing.

If I succeed from this point until the 31st we'll see after that.
 
My drinking usually revolves around my social life. Or I suppose you could argue it was the other way round. Whether it's going to watch the Boro, going for a meal with the Mrs and friends, a catch up with old mates, going to a gig etc etc alcohol plays a big part. I suppose you would call me a binge drinker as I'll only occasionally ever only have a few drinks. If I'm drinking I'm usually on it. This usually happens once a week on average I would say. Rarely drink in the house nowadays though. If I do it is usually for a football/boxing match on TV or after I've come in from football or the pub.
 
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