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I know that Non-alcoholic beer is a controversal topic amoung recovery for alcoholics and abusers.
I'm currently on Day 24 - no alcohol for 24 days! Go me! However, on Friday and Saturday nights, I've been drinking a couple of Bitburger Drive (0.0% alcohol) "beers". I don't see a problem with this myself because it certainly hasn't made me want "the real stuff" but I suppose everyone is different. It actually seems to "do the trick" for me except that there's no alcohol.
My favourite drink was beer, I would love coming home to a beer (or several) in the afternoons, especially with it being in the middle of summer right now where I live, so this way I am still able to enjoy a cool, refreshing drink in the afternoon without all the sugar (such as drinking lemonade).
Has anybody else found that non-alcoholic beers were helpful or the complete opposite?
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check out that smoke ring. It tasted really good. I smothered it with Maulls BBQ sauce which is Local to St. Louis and one of the best I ever had.....
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I was recently separated from my wife of 33 years and it's complicated. Anyway I rented a room about 15 minutes away and I see my kids about once a week. I see the people who own the house I live in once in a while but other than that I stay in my room where I do my cooking, wash dishes in the shower, read, color, and sleep. I get out at least once a day. I grocery shop and I attend 2 meetings...
I have a feeling that most people are going to see it as a trigger. I wonder if it depends on how long you've been struggling or different relationships with alcohol?
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It seems to be a trigger to many but if it works for you then that can be a decent alternative to the stronger poison. Good luck with that!
God Bless!
What I found most helpful was making a complete break with past practices and thinking that included alcohol intake. For me personally, this made perfect sense once I admitted to myself the real reason why I drank. I would formerly have listed many reasons for drinking but those things were only a camouflage and the one and only real reason was alcoholism.
As I understand it there is no such thing as 0.0% alcohol beer, although some beers come close to zero. There are different designations in different countries; for example, in the U.K. a beer has to have an alcohol level of less than 0.05% in order to be designated as “no alcohol” while in the US the figure is higher 0.5% and in Australia the term "light beer" refers to any beer with less than 3% alcohol which is pretty high.
I used to associate alcohol with certain types of work and leisure activities and was convinced that I could not actually do those things at all without drinking. What I have found is that all sorts of other drinks work just as well, including plain old free water.
I cannot speculate on whether drinking low alcohol beer would eventually lead you to the “real stuff” but why take the chance when there are plenty of alternatives?