Helps you see through the conditioning society has put you through to believe drinking is positive when it is always negative.

If you are sick and tired of pretending like drinking is awesome then read this book and have your assumptions solidified.

Have an open mind and power through the rambling. It’s there for a reason.

have read a number of books about recovery and this is the best! Carr writes with self-disclosure, a sense of humor and, most importantly, clarity. His basic theory is that we have basically all been duped into associating alcohol consumption with being "adult". He then breaks down all the myths that accompany the faulty premise and it really was illuminating. Will never look at alcohol the same way.

Repetitive, basic, and not written very well. Probably won't help someone in need but who knows, his book on smoking is pretty highly regarded and this is essentially the same thing, only for drinking. It's heart is in the right place, but it's a pass.

Listened to the audiobook and I liked it. I definitely love just a nice smack to the head on stuff and benefit from hearing the facts and just having the full power of changing my mind..

Why do you drink? Social? Stress? Happiness? Habit?
So many reasons to have a drink, but does it make your situation better? If you’re having a drink in good company, isn’t it your company that makes it fun?
If your having a drink because your stressed, is that helping you out or making it worse? Are you benefiting from adding it? Can you cope with stress, social anxiety, and hard times without it?
Being hungover riddled with hangxity…Spending countless dollars on something that hinders your memories, judgement, and safety? Do we have to?

Your mind is a powerful thing and if you really want to, you can.

Give’r a listen. What could it hurt?

This book is not particularly well written, but I did not read it for its literary prose. However, it is extraordinarily helpful.

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Boredom, habit, stress, fun, pain. There are many reasons people drink and that should be kept in mind when reading. How many boxes can you tick? If you've enjoyed a drink for long enough, probably all of them.

This book states that drinking alchohol causes all of your problems. One drink of anything.
It states that you don't need willpower to quit drinking, or rather that you shouldn't use it because it has an elastic-band effect and you end up going back harder than before. The book will remind you of this and marches along to the end, summarising everything after each chapter. It's an extremely easy read and should be for what it is.

Willpower isn't needed for things you really want to do, so this book tries to convince you that stopping drinking is something you'd want and you'd be silly to want to continue. It is also positive about keeping your friends, habits and dealing with stress in a positive way, being a non-drinker doesn't make you boring. It might make you bored at the beginning but then the challenge is not with quitting but with finding ways to deal with stress and boredom as you would y'know, normally.

Best coupled with some exercise or meditation, some kind of stress relief. Just reading the book and being inactive with other things probably won't do much.

This is not a book for a dry month, new years or another temporary fix. This is a book about how not drinking is better than drinking.

This was good lol.

I first heard the term “sober curious” from my good friend Maddie. I don’t consider myself as someone that has a drinking problem, but there were definitely nights I had an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. I have always viewed alcohol as a “life enhancer” and a symbolism for celebration and good time and often thought “more is more” during nights with alcohol involved. This, combined with a phrase that stuck with me “there is no healthy amount of alcohol”, motivated me to analyze my relationship with alcohol with this book.

I can see how this book can help someone facing recovery. There were a lot of things that I felt I could relate to and a lot of reasons why we justify drinking that made sense. This book gave me a lot of perspective which is something I value most when I read. If you know someone that is battling addiction, I highly recommend learning more about it with books like these because I think gaining perspective could be enough to really make a difference in supporting someone in recovery.

My gripes with this book mostly surrounds safety, both physically and emotionally. This book strongly implies “read this book and you can quit cold-turkey” which can be a death sentence for alcoholics deep in their addiction. It also heavily downplays physical withdrawal symptoms. Quitting alcohol without the help of a physician can result in life-threatening seizures. I’m not saying all people in alcohol recovery require the help of a physician, but the book could have at least mentioned it. Fun fact - alcohol and benzodiazepine detox are the only two drugs that can result in death.

My other frustration with this book is the terminology they used. It wasn’t uncommon for someone mentioned with an addiction to heroin to be referred to as a “junkie”. Addiction is a diagnosable disease and I feel we should delete degrading terms like “junkie” from our vocabulary to create a socially safer space for everyone battling addiction.

Overall an enjoyable read to gain perspective. I don’t see myself cutting alcohol completely out of my life but it has made me become more self-aware of the reasons why I feel like wanting to drink which I think will benefit me long term.

Just read chapter 26 and appendix B for the essence. The remainder +200 pages of the book is just a long spun 'alcohol is bad, mmmkay kids' and a shameless advertising for the author's method. Nonetheless an interesting read for those who need an extra push, or out of curiosity.

Read this book, stopped drinking.