I’ve been an alcoholic and daily blackout drinker since I was 17. Now, that’s coming back to bite me in the ass. What are some ULPTs to abstaining from alcohol?
I am getting on a medication to curb cravings but I have to stay sober for a week to be able to take it and the cravings are insane right now.
The more unethical and unhinged the better!
How would anything to help you be unethical lol
Replace with cocaine addiction?
Lmao meth made me completely forget about alcohol. I went from drinking a handle of vodka a day to not a single sip of alcohol for over a year. I now have maybe three or four mixed drinks per year. Surprisingly, meth was a million times easier for me to quit in comparison to the many times I had tried to quit drinking previously.
Sounds like we have OP's answer right here
This is his answer. Except he might want to let the unethical part being to lie about having ADHD and get some Adderall from a legit pharmacy instead. Anything that can be tainted with fentanyl is an insane thing to put in your body.
I’m on adderall right now!
I used to drink a lot to ease my upper back pain so I could sleep at night. Finally had an MRI done and found out the cause was misdiagnosed. I was put on Tramadol afterwards. It doesn't mix well with alcohol and I've been sober for 11yrs now. I also take Adderall for ADHD.
It's a Beautiful Answer
I was about to say… I’m a criminal defense attorney and all my clients say they quit alcohol when they started meth!
I know someone who was a very heavy drinker. They started taking Adderall for ADD and their drinking dropped 75+%.
Haha totally where my head went, uppers or stimulant medication 😂😂😂😂😂 hello to alcohol having zero effect on anything except your BAL
Yup. Amazing what the right amount of dopamine in the brain does. I moved in 2016 and the new doc didn’t want to prescribe it. Within 6 months I was back in rehab for alcohol.
Guilty.
Not so much meth, but my ADHD meds killed my drinking overnight. I went from every single day to maybe a beer on a Friday or something.
Stimulants are surprisingly effective even at therapeutic doses.
No such luck here
Me either. Drinking got worse for me.
Sober now for over 5 years but only because the alpha strain of COVID nearly killed me. Woke up 2 weeks later, sober, and haven’t touched a drop since.
Good for you man, really. Was hard as hell to quit drinking, that's great you took that opportunity...I hope you pat yourself on the back for that, from time to time.
funnily enough ive heard this before. have a friend who was an alcoholic for years (and used plenty of other drugs, but it was primarily alcohol and coke). then she was on meth for a while. she craves alcohol (which she hasnt had in years) far more intensely than meth, which she is about 3 months clean from
Unethical and practical!
And more affordable!
Same. Except I eventually started burning my candle from all ends. Tweaker activities running a trap plus drinking, clubbing, babysitting my wife's kids and working overtime at a regular job. Complete meltdown after six months
Did you use heroin to quit that then?
Nah, one morning I was smoking the last of what I had before work and somethin just switched in my head. Idk how to explain it, it was like I just didn't feel the need anymore. I took a couple days off work, slept a whole bunch, ate a fuck ton, deleted my connections number, and just pushed through the fatigue. Haven't touched the bubble since, it'll be three years this coming February. I will say though, the depression was pretty rough for about a month after I stopped, but no worse than it had been before my substance abuse issues. The depression and anxiety was significantly less severe than it was when attempting to quit alcohol alone.
Funny a beer addiction saved me from fentanyl
The only reason I do coke is so I can drink more.
Replace with ketamine is safer and more effective.
Commit a crime that puts you in jail for a week?
A ULPT master is what you are
I mean jail did get me sober and has greatly reduced my desire so you're not wrong.
This is really the key I hate to say lmaoo
No bullshit! Sitting in jail is about the only thing that made me sober up when I was a young knucklehead lol!
This is truly the only ULPT response to this post. Bravo!
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Lick a piss disc every time they get the craving for alcohol and stick to it until they are repulsed by the feeling of craving alcohol.
How is this unethical lol
Because piss discs
No no let him cook. He’s onto something
Replace alcohol dependence with cannabis lol
Replace alcohol addiction with smoking
Get hooked on benzos as a way to “taper” your dependence. Black the fuck out and go shoplifting for a week and end up in prison and then black out again and wake up with a sore behind, track marks all over your arms, and 5 empty bags of fentanyl
You had me at hooked on benzos. Already there. I like to take them WITH my alcohol to ensure a proper black out
True. OP asked for how to quit alcohol...
But have they ever considered how to supercharge alcohol instead?!?!
Don't be a quitter, try harder!
Op said how to stop, not how to have fun!
Sounds like Super Bowl weekend to me
I'm surprised no one has said this yet, but if you were drinking that much, it might not be a good idea to quit cold turkey without talking to a doctor. Alcohol withdrawals can kill you. I'll preface this by saying that I am not a sober person, I drink a couple beers here and there. But the problem with alcohol addiction is that it is a mental addiction, but it can also 100% be chemically addictive. Idk if you've talked to a qualified doctor about it, but please do. Would really suck if you quit cold turkey and had a seizure that killed you. I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure benzos can help with the withdrawals, but you definitely don't want to get addicted to those instead.
I’ve been slowly detoxing myself from it! I drank a half bottle of whiskey three nights ago, almost an entire bottle of wine two nights ago, some wine and a few seltzers and two beers yesterday night. Tomorrow it’ll just be a few beers if anything. Not sure how to properly detox but I will ask my doctor!
A quick Google brought up an article from the NHS in the UK, and they recommend decreasing your consumption by 10% every 4 days. So I would probably try to stick around that amount of tapering. And again, I would recommend a journal and properly measuring your drinks. They also recommended that in the article.
Thank you so much!! You have been more helpful than you could ever know! If I had an award to give I would give it to you!
Dude, be super super careful with your detox. My mom died from detoxing (or trying to) the wrong way.
I think you need to taper more slowly, as bad as it sounds. If I were you, I would start measuring your alcohol. Like, keep a journal and measure. But yea, talk to a doctor before you start changing your consumption aggressively like that.
Please go there r/stopdrinking you'll get some inspiration
I’m in there!
IWNDWYT, also, put a sock over any alcohol, so when you go to grab the drink, all you get is a sock.
"Well fuck guess no drinking tonight, all I have is this damn sock"
Put a hornets nest over all your alcohol so when you reach for the alcohol you get angry hornets
Hornets crawl into your throat and the only way to kill them is to pour alcohol in your mouth and set everything on fire
eyes the sock
Def recommend going to a hospital and just doing one of their quick fix couple-day detox’s to get the most dangerous part and the first half of your week over with. Unethical tip to give because it’s the least likely way to succeed in sobriety over rehab, but it’s the quick fix you need to stay alive through the week if you’re bad enough.
This is v v important you can die if you skip this part, OP!
Can confirm
im 6 years no booze. I honestly dont think any advice internet strangers give you will help you fully quit. It will only happen when you are truly ready. You have to be honest with yourself that you really want to do it.
the first few weeks are truly miserable. You just need to power through. I used valerian root to help sleep.
I would say weed can definitely help the first few weeks but you need to stay sober so that not an option
Goodluck !
This is the answer. I’ve got 33 years sober as of last week & at the start I went to AA meetings daily (for years). I know some people don’t like AA, but I knew nothing of rehab or other treatments, I just knew I had to quit. I smoked a lot of weed to start but re-established my sobriety date & went all in after a few months. Life is good, & I’m sure I’d be dead without getting sober.
33 years !! Wow thats a long time. Congrats
But ya I dont love AA long term- I havent been in years but I do think it’s important in the very beginning.
Thanks! Yea, I haven’t been to a meeting in years. But it was crucial to my early soberiety
33 years is a long time coming from a 35 year old haha. Congrats man. I keep telling myself I'll try drinking again when i hit 40. And if i fail to moderate then ill stop again for 5 years haha. 3 years in now, does that desire ever go away?
It does. The desire really changes over the years. My mouth still waters when I see someone served a fresh margarita on a hot day. But I have no desire to be drunk, and that took a long time. I wanted that 3 drink buzz that I loved so much- that sweet spot. But honestly now I truly don’t think about drinking. I was such a wreck when I quit- blackout drunk every time and just falling apart. Sobriety is great
This is the answer. Noting else works.
I’m sober from weed rn :/ I went down the weed to fent pipeline and alcohol was the only thing that got me sober off fent!
the what now?
Gradually upping the severity of drugs until I got to fent. Then I knew I needed to get off fent and started drinking and just doing a little blow or a little k or some ice here and there
So you're saying weed was a gateway drug then?
For me it was! Not for everyone though
Have you spoken with a therapist?
Substitute for Cannabis
Thats how I did it, then I developed a problem with that for years, but that being said it didn't do me a lot if any harm.
Same but I never lost friends from being high. I can’t say the same for being drunk.
I lost friends and opportunities to weed. It was enough to just hang in and get high and not be social for such a long stretch, people moved on. Glad I’m not a daily smoker anymore.
+1, it helped me deal with withdrawals alot. But its more important to figure out why you drink so much and address those problems, try out aa and just see what happens
I’m in therapy for it but the cravings are still so constant. It’s from a very tumultuous childhood and being an addict for years - I’m working on it but it doesn’t stop the addict in me!
be kind to yourself, I'm sure if you keep it up, in a year you'll look back and feel so much different than you used to be! it's a huge change
r/stopdrinking also may help
I’m in it!
OP try Semaglutide. It reduces all kinds of cravings including sugar and alcohol. Also, no joke psilocybin but work with a trained practitioner.
Hey, what you’re doing is amazing. I’m rooting for you.
I was never a daily drinker, but getting pregnant worked for me to stop completely.
But I think you might be a dude, soooo
I am a woman 😩
Well then it really is a fitting ULPT, innit?
Nah, but for real, you are more amazing than you can even understand. This is so hard and it hurts so bad, but it will be so worth it.
I was veering toward drinking too much after a series of traumatic events in life. The amount of therapy and work on sources of pain, it can be so eye opening, but it takes a long time. I think people don’t realize how much of a slow process it is. But on the other hand, it’s also a pretty fun process.
The therapy stuff that works on me is not like any of those clichés where they breakdown and then have a major breakthrough. It’s like literally hanging out with people that know about the journey more than you, doing fun stuff together, reading a lot about how human brains are, been doing a lot more fun stuff together. Then celebrating the fun stuff with more fun stuff.
I already quit that, went down a path from weed to fent. Alcohol helped me stay off fent!
I know this isn't what you want to hear, but you really have to heal the root cause of your spiritual disturbance. I know from experience. I spent the majority of my life hopelessly addicted to Meth and Heroin. TBH, my addict mind didn't necessarily care what I was feeding it as long as it was getting fed. I'm sure you are in the same boat. This is part of recovery. eventually you will keep your sobriety, just keep fighting, exploring, and asking questions.
I’m currently in therapy and have been since 8, really working on the traumatic childhood stuff. I know that’s where my addictions stem from - just the total feeling of emptiness and need to fill and yadda yadda. I know I need to quit! I’m going to start going swimming when I get back home so I can have heathy dopamine.
Hobbies? Occupy your time, so you're not always thinking about it
Did this when I was in my late teens. It wasn’t my plan to stop drinking but, I just loved smoking weed and playing music with my friends. By the end of the day I was too tired and burnt out to get drunk because I’d have had an active day plus smoked the entire way through. Now, probably not a great long term plan to be stoned through your entire day. Definitely a better idea than crushing your liver though.
That's what I did.
When I told my doctor she shrugged and said "Well we can work on that later." She was very happy that I quit drinking though.
No unethical one for this... Piss disks just won't cut it. You need guidance and help to get off alcohol safely, it's one of the few things that can kill you with its withdrawal.
Actually, if OP licked a piss disk every time they got a craving for alcohol, it should eventually develop a negative pavlovian association with the want for alcohol if they can stick to it for long enough...
That’s what I’m saying! Piss disk is somehow, always the answer.
Where does the Liquid Ass come in?
Tirzepatide has been shown to stop alcohol cravings. Hell I used to be an alcoholic till I took it.
Thank you so much!! Saving this
I was scrolling until I found someone who recommended this. This is the way. Tirz, semaglutide, or any other GLP-1 blockers are starting to be prescribed for alcoholism.
Thank you so much I just messaged my psych NP about this!
One guy on the r/Zepbound group used to drink 60 beers a week. Went on Zep and had no desire to drink at all. He was a nurse, and kept beer around in the event he went into alcohol withdrawal (can be deadly to suddenly stop), but he was OK and still has that beer in his fridge. Zero desire to drink it.
I’ve read that a lot of the GLP1 drugs cut cravings. That’s great!
Yes! Came here to say this!
Yes! I was also coming to suggest a GLP-1, but specifically Tirz.
Initial research was that it helps to quiet food noise and anxiety, but it’s the same receptors/connections in the brain that addiction and compulsion filter through, so people also reported less inclination for things like alcohol, some reported fewer anxious thoughts or impulsive thoughts, etc as well.
So now, it’s being considered for use with addiction or other applications.
It's looking like Ozempic might also help curb alcohol addiction -- not necessarily unethical, but you can try getting on a GLP-1 and see if it works for you.
Go to jail for something alcohol related. There’s no alcohol in jail. You have no choice but to become sober
I’ve already been and had prison malt 😬
True story! During Xmas time while the staff was off we got "bag lunches" with fruit. Everyone in the block got the fruit out of those and we made hooch (we got drunk on NYE).
Jail ain't no escape; it's a different angle.
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No, this is false.
There is not more drugs and alcohol in jail. Both are also sold at a drastically high markup for far less because it’s contraband and scarce.
you go to rehab, amy winehouse, and you do what they tell you (don't say no no no)
you can't stop drinking cold turkey at your level of use. I'm not kidding: you could die if you just stop. You need medical assistance. Call your doctor and tell them what you told us, that you want to quit and you are a daily blackout drinker for X number of years. You need help and you're willing to go to treatment.
You could also call your local chapter of Al-Anon or AA, your insurance company to ask about treatment centers they cover, or -- if you really don't know how to get started -- just take an uber to the emergency room. Bring a change of clothes, your phone and charger, and something to do like a book or portable gaming device with its charger and headphones.
You may be waiting in the ER for a few hours. Assume you won't be going home between the ER and treatment center so if you want to pack a bag, do. Bring with you everything you need to sleep over somewhere (glasses, saline for contacts, night meds, toothbrush, etc).
Don’t quit cold turkey! That is what lead to my husband’s death.
Allan Carrs book is supposed to be great
5 years sober. I can confirm it worked for me.
I microdosed psilocybin at urges until the urges went away. Still sober 5 years later.
having cans or glasses of soda or even bottled waters, by you or in your hand, is what helped me. also, a healthy dopamine replacement. instead of going to the bar, go for a walk or to the gym if you prefer. or dopamine rewards. if you went a day without drinking then you get to watch some porn. or make it a week without drinking and spend the money saved on a blowjob. something like that
I will try this!! Only thing is I don’t get much from any quick dopamine hits. I will try going for a run!
I think this is the right track to get on. Not the same as alcohol, but I met a guy here (Canada) that had very heavy coke and meth addictions. He eventually got clean but only when he removed himself from the friend group he was with. He took up hiking, and after seeing some amazing views on his hikes he also took up photography.
He's been clean for about 12yrs now, got married, and has two kids. I've heard many other similar stories, but the key seems to be a lifestyle change, replacing unhealthy habits with healthy ones.
Thank you so much!! I know I’m just the same person I’ll always be if I keep drinking. If I stop, I actually have a shot at changing.
I was going to suggest walks. Be careful if you run, alcohol withdrawal is hard on the body. Take it easy, stay well fed and hydrated. Let someone know where you’re going and when you should be back.
You got this!
Thank you!! I will just walk the dog and sit outside and experience nature and reconnected with sobriety lol! I will definitely detox properly!
Indulge in easy to digest sugary foods. This isn't good for the long run, but helpful in crisis.
Exercise- even just walking. Walk Longggg and Far... Stop for coffee and doughnuts.
Get out in nature. Get out in the cold and the wind.
Find people- find people who Aren't drinking. : / tough.
Express gratitude. This isn't about listing things you're grateful for- it's simply a mindset change.
These are just the things that have helped me.
Hey I haven't seen this mentioned yet but there's a medication out there called Naltrexone that can really help with cravings for alcohol and I could be wrong about this part but also makes you feel sick if you do drink. Ive also really struggled with drinking and I'm looking into this option myself.
Good luck, friend
Thank you so much! Someone just recommended it. I’m getting on Acamprosate for cravings but not sure exactly what medication will help the most!
Do a heroic dose of mushrooms.
Here’s a mostly ethical way to stop:
Ozempic.
My SO has a friend who was a full-on alcoholic (was pretty much drunk all day) and after Ozempic she doesn’t crave it anymore.
You’ll get skinny in the process. Win-win.
Do the old trainspotting technique. Buy supplies & lock yourself in for a week with nothing but a bucket.
For heroin, ok. For alcohol, could be deadly. Alcohol is the most deadly drug to come off of. OP! Check yourself in somewhere if you go this route. I’m deadly serious
Too many people don’t realize how deadly detoxing can be. Thanks for pointing that out!
ohh man love that movie. I am staring at a Choose Life poster in my home office right now!
I don’t have anything unethical to say. I am an alcoholic and AA has worked for me for 6 years.
It’s not unethical, but the group Smart Recovery helped me a lot. I have been sober for a year and a half, so it seems to be working.
Good luck, and know that you can do it.
Just get yourself a motorcycle and ride, fuck alcohol, it just holds you back and you know it. Give your body some better feeling than being drunk.
Hell yeah. I’m terrified of motorcycles but I will do something adrenaline powered!
Take sleeping pills every time a craving starts, so by the time you're at the shop, you fall asleep and the shopowner (whom I presume you're friends with) will take you home and tuck you in
Naltrexone? Saved my life.
Go backpacking in the wilderness with no booze for a month. You will lose a shit ton of weight and be forced to stay sober
Once you detox or lower your dose the implants of naltrexone or shrooms, weed etc. could help. I would never recommend weight loss drugs ~ I have friends with pancreas and gall bladder, etc. problems from using semiglutides.
Let your buddy sell your ass anytime you blackout, I feel like this should cross some ethical boundaries lol.
If you are a daily, heavy drinker, you need to go to detox in a hospital. Seriously. Cocaine and heroin withdrawal feels like it will kill you. Alcohol detox CAN kill you. I did this almost 5 years ago.
Do research on psychedelics. It has great anti addictive properties and is generally safe if you have no underlying psychiatric disorders
I have many lol
Glp-1 drugs for weight loss/diabetes have a side effect that makes other addictive things less attractive. Many people have been able to stop drinking on these drugs.
I drink too much for my health, so I'm very glad when the glp-1s make me drink less. I'm the daughter of an alcoholic so I know how bad these things can get.... glad to have the help of the meds when stress could cause me to drink more.
Not sure if you have access to it, but cannabis has been successfully used in curbing cravings and withdrawals from alcoholism.
If you have a couple days you can take off from life and work…. Klonopin or high dose edibles. Sleep through as much withdrawal as possible.
Worked for me with other substances.
Klonopin taper is safer as benzos and alcohol have cross tolerance. THC might help, but it won’t keep anyone safe from seizures. We don’t know how much alcohol OP is talking about and what kind of alcohol, nor how old he/she is now. All that matters. Difference between deadly seizures and just sleeping better.
Isn't there some drug that makes you nauseous if you consume alcohol?
Committing to intense exercise really helped me
Depending on your addiction and tolerance, I would advise tapering off slowly to avoid withdrawal. If you are under medical supervision, they will prescribe benzos to help.
Rid your house of alcohol, and stop going to bars.
Try Ozempic (seriously). It's stopped alcohol cravings in most everyone I know. It's being studied right now for use as a medication for this.
You find a substitute... I did seltzers instead of beers. It took me a while to figure out that seltzers worked for me. I went from a six pack a day to zero after a few rough months. Also bars have more nonalcoholic beers than when I quit. I was downing Red bulls like crazy when I first tried to quit.
If they are expecting cold turkey for a week without having given you maintenance for that is insane unethical and life threatening to many
Get into rough street drugs and become homeless
THC SELTZERS! There's a reason the GOP wants to ban them...
Get glp injections- it totally crushed cravings of everything
Shrooms. I know they have helped a lot of people feel disgusted by their former cravings after taking them. Just don't overdo the dose on your first try
You noticed the problem, and that s a very good starting point. I will unethically pray for you.
Define sober? Marijuana helps some users escape other addictions....you may get hooked on marijuana tho
I'm not an alcoholic, but I was self-medicating problem drinking for a while. I decided to quit altogether about 20 years ago and haven't looked back since. I did research before quitting, and learned the following helped: You need a good whole food multivitamin, extra Vitamin C, and B complex vitamin supplements. Kudzu helps alleviate cravings, and you can get it as a supplement. Drink extra water. Distract yourself with gaming, hiking, exercise, journaling. There are some good podcasts about getting sober. Bubble Hour is one. Good luck!
I got really into building bonfires early in sobriety. Starting them, building them, burning them. Idk. It's where my brain went.
I've heard Alcoholics Anonymous is a crazy place full of some amazingly kind and fun unethical people who all help each other not drink.
I drank pretty heavily in the army until I got put on adderall for adhd and ever since I’ve drank less than a six pack a year
Ozempic
Commit a serious crime and you'll be forced to abstain while in jail.
Obviously you need to start taking heroin. Or at least start smoking.
I smoke cigs but weed won’t work for me. Went down the drug pipeline and ended up on fent. Only thing that stopped me from that was drinking!
Buy only low end cheap booze with no mix. Talking the worst you can find.
Drink but don't enjoy it until you hate it and stop.
I’ve tried burnettes straight no chaser no mixer no nothing. Was like battery acid but I still crave it the next morning with my head in the toilet 🤢
That's rough my friend. Hope you find something to help ya
My friend did this, exclusively smoking TOP tobacco. He wrote an “S” before the TOP on the package. Seemed to work eventually
That’s the most adorable way to quit smoking I’ve ever heard.
After the first 3, cheap tastes good.
If you can take some sleep meds and knock yourself out for the whole week probably easiest way to make it
Psychedelics. Not necessarily unethical if you get into a clinical trial, and shrooms are being studied as treatment for addiction.
Or run your head into a wall, whatever floats your beerfloat
You could buy some of those anti drinking drugs from one of those overseas sites
Go destroy your relationships with every liqour store in town. Go smash a bottle or 9 in store, depending on how big your town is
Go camping alone. On owned property, make campfires and everything, just try not to get caught. Come home when you are dried out. Find the BEST unsupervised property
This sounds so fun actually!! I don’t think I’d want to drink it I did this. Saving this!
If you eat enough hallucinogens, you’re going to feel so worn out and tired for a couple days that you won’t wanna drink
Rehab, there’s no shortcuts if you really want this.
Ozempic helps with alcohol cravings
Not unethical, but glp 1s do it for a lot of people, specifically tirzepitide
One thing I have heard yielded immediate results was a heroic dose of magic mushrooms. Def, want a qualified trip sitter to help you through it though.
Youre just making a mockery out of yourself and your Situation here. Rehab. Done. Anything else is complete delusion.
AA is free. All they do in rehab is send you to free AA Meetings.
Start exercising and get a hobby that takes you outside your home environment. Good luck.
Commit a severe crime (without hurting anyone) and go to prison. Much harder to get pissed inside. (I think)
Do something else when the craving hits, find a new environment.
Go to the gym.
Go for a walk.
Go see your friends/parents/relatives.
Get a dog to do these things with.
Eat protein in the morning (this really does help a lot with my weed cravings, I wasn't a big guy for booze).
Thank you I will do this!! I’m currently visiting family for holidays but will go exercise when cravings hit!!
Black tar heroin
Get the flu. Run around licking doorknobs until you get the flu. You'll be in bed for days puking, no chance of getting up and going out to buy booze.
I know someone who used the flu to get off nicotine. The worst of the withdraw hit while they were bedridden.
Ethical pro tip: start taking shilajit. It's what helped me stop. No idea why it worked but it did.
One of my best friends found out she was pregnant and immediately quit and it worked for her
“Piss off. Go to prison.” https://youtu.be/nw33PTJh8AA?si=laeAsn8EW1Lkk2CQ
Not an ULPT, but go see an addiction medicine doctor. Go on a low dose of Valium (GABAa, same as alcohol) then taper off the Valium. Done. You need willpower though. You have to be ready to quit for real.
How is it coming back to bite you in the ass?
Liver enzymes decreased really drastically. Moderate cirrhosis
If you're cold turkeying this all of a sudden, please know that is very dangerous and possibly deadly.
You did mention there is something you will take. Are you being followed or assisted by a doctor? If not, please do. People in alcoholic comas have had to be administered alcohol therapeutically. Complete sudden abstinence is very serious for the body.
Unethical and unhinged ways to quit are never going to help you quit for good. Join something like Smart Recovery, read books about addiction, find friends who support each other, start a new hobby to distract yourself. The best book I ever read was Quit Like A Woman, it’s not exclusively for women, it would help anyone. It’s just a way of looking at addiction that’s different then the typical male perspective.
Medication is great, Antabuse is probably the most “unhinged” life tip, as it’s a medication that makes you violently sick if you drink while taking it. I preferred Naltrexone though.