Comment on My brother has or had now a drinking problem. Now he is asking for the worst tasting crap that he can take a cap full like an airplance bottle so his body whenever he thinks about it will remember

• mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is just his way to keep drinking and sell it to himself and others as “doing something against it”.
  Don’t encourage or enable him in this. The only way to stop drinking is to STOP. DRINKING.

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  • terraborra@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Spot on. I tried to quit smoking once by switching to menthols, and telling myself that they’d be horrible enough to make me quit. It did not work. I just adjusted to the change and kept smoking for another two years.

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