Water & Food Security

4 DEAL WITH DIFFICULT TIMES

You now have a list of the hardest times for you – so you have already worked out when you are most likely to drink. Now you have to work out how to deal with those difficult situations – without a drink in your hand ...

WAYS OF COPING WITH DIFFICULT TIMES

• Avoid going to the pub after work – perhaps arrange a different social activity, like jogging.
• Avoid your friends who drink heavily.
• Plan activities or tasks at those times that you usually drink.
• When you are bored or stressed, have a physical workout or go for a walk instead of drinking.
• Eat a meal before drinking: it will make you feel more full and then you will drink less.
• Remind yourself that the craving for the drink will go if you occupy yourself with something else.
• Avoid drinking in 'shouts' or 'rounds'.
• Dilute your drink – add soda to wine and mixers to spirits.
• Practise refusing alcoholic drinks.