“Researchers from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism”
Binge drinking to these tools is one drink a week.
I like to use their ‘logic’ against them with a bit of absurdity.
When getting lectured on the perils of drinking I would offer that one can get ‘addicted’ to water.
After all the ‘guffaws’ and a dressing down by the ‘instructor’, I would explain:
Get up every morning and go to the icebox and pull out that jug of ICE COLD water and take a good swig.
Do that as part of your daily routine.
The day that you ‘FORGET’ to refill the jug results in the next morning you grab the EMPTY jug and your day has started out miserably.
Isn’t that being ‘addicted’ to the nice swig of ice water every morning.
Needless to say I was considered a ‘thorn’ in the side of the instructor while the class thought I was ‘amusing’ (yes, I guess I was the Class clown many decades before).
When I was ‘released’ from the program a ‘nasty’ letter accompanied me.
However, I will venture to say that I would probably be hard put to find ANYONE else who took the class and - even with my negative attitude - am probably the ONLY one that has NEVER touch a drop in 30 years.
I use reverse psychology -
I set out to not do something and tell as many as I can, friends and foe alike, which gives me the incentive to make sure ‘YOU’ will never be able to say
“I knew you couldn’t do it”.
Like ‘they’ say, One Day at a time, and I say
‘whatever floats your boat, use it.