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Binge Drinking: How to Stop It

By: Lyta Humphris

Put simply, binge drinking means drinking just to get drunk--an unrestrained and self-destructive drinking bout.
While binge drinking, heavily intoxicated drinkers ignore responsibilities, squander money, and take part in many harmful behaviors which can cause them to encounter police or emergency services.
Binge drinking has become a serious issue in a lot of Western countries, despite the fact the individual nations have varying tolerance levels for binge drinkers. In United States binge drinking means the number of drinks consumed by a person on a particular occasion i.e, woman having four or more drinks or man having five or more drinks.
Having 11 or more drinks in one sitting is how the United Kingdom defines binge drinking. The binge drinking rate in the United Kingdom is more than double that according to US standards, and the British government is actually becoming involved the problem.
What is the Issue?
Often disguised as recreation, binge drinking, or heavy drinking, is irresponsible Binge drinking is quite harmful to drinkers and those around them.
Risks to the binge drinker include:

Driving a car after drinking, Getting into trouble with the police, Alcohol poisoning; a severe and potentially fatal physical reaction to an alcohol overdose, Missing work, Engaging in unplanned sexual activity
Risks to people around binge drinkers:
Having leisure time or sleep interrupted, Being insulted or humiliated, Being pushed, hit or assaulted, Having a serious argument, Having property damaged
Why do people do it?:
For status associated with drinking, Culture of alcohol consumption, Stress, Peer pressure, To get drunk
Do you have a binge-drinking problem? Do you recognise any of these harmful and destructive behaviours in your own life:
Are you drinking to get drunk, Are you drinking more heavily and more often?, Is your drinking affecting your work or upsetting your partner or family?
What can be done?
Hypnotherapy and NPL can have provide long-lasting results for binge drinking. People are all generally programmed incorrectly by negative input in some manner or other, which neuro-linguistic programming corrects, by reprogramming the mind for a positive outcome. Since hypnotherapy alters the state of a person's mind so that they are able to accept NLP re-programming more easily, NLP and hypnotherapy are a highly effective combined treatment.
Using Hypnotherapy and NLP can help your attitude become more positive in a matter of hours. There are many ways to stop binge drinking, it is up to you to find which way works for you. In either case the result is identical - changing your habitual self-destructive "drink for the purpose of becoming intoxicated" habits to pleasurable "have a few drinks and a good time" ones.
It's a matter of self-control, and there are neuro-linguistic and hypnotherapy techniques that create a sequence of thinking that get the brain to move from the
thought of drinking to excess to the thought of just having a moderate amount of drinks and enjoying yourself.

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Lyta Humphris makes it easy understanding the essential points of overcoming binge drinking and offers how-to advice at her site on the Binge Drinking page.

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