After all the festivities of the holiday season, January is the prime time to try and cut down on the alcohol (Dry January). Cutting down the amount of alcohol you consume can have so many benefits including helping you sleep better, helping with lowering your blood pressure and of course helping with your spending.
There are many ways you cut down on the amount of alcohol you are consuming, for example:
- Having alcohol free days in the week
- Alternating alcoholic drinks with non-alcoholic drinks
- Practice saying no
- Pacing yourself
But, if like many other adults there are simply not enough non-alcoholic drinks you like the taste of then you could try a no or low-alcohol drink.
A few years ago, many people would turn their nose up at the thought of a non-alcoholic beer but recently the market for non-alcoholic beverages has expanded and developed and now there are several delicious options for non/low-alcoholic beers, wines, gins and cocktails! Most beer brands have a low/non-alcoholic beer.
You can find low/non-alcoholic spirits from brands such as:
- Clean co.
- Crossip
- Sea Arch
- Everleaf
- Endorphin Dealer Institute
- Strykk
- Eceaux
and many more can be found in all good supermarkets.
If you need any help or support cutting down on the alcohol there are many places you can turn to:
Support lines:
Drinkchat
Drink lines messaging service you can access here.
Drinkline
Free confidential helpline for anyone who needs some support.
Helpline: 0300 123 1110 (weekdays 9am–8pm, weekends 11am–4pm)
Alcoholcs Anonymous (AA) Great Britain
Helpline: 0800 917 7650
Email helpline: help@aamail.org
MIND (The Mental Health Charity)
Website: www.mind.org.uk
Helpline: 0300 123 3393
SAMARITANS
Website: http://www.samaritans.org/
Helpline: 116 123
