“Nearly every area of my life has improved,” JW Wiseman, founder of the non-alcoholic craft cocktail brand, Curious Elixirs, says of his decision to quit drinking a decade ago. “It has improved my sleep, my sex life, my relationships, my memory, my weight, my skin, and my pocketbook.”
How curious that a man who founded a non-alcoholic cocktail brand should say that non-alcoholic cocktails are great.
You may suddenly notice you’re seeing the world through a rosier lens. At three months, emotions and mental health have stabilized leading to a more positive outlook and much cheerier moods.
Hmmm.
Does anyone know of a control goup?
Say a large body of people – peaceful and religious types, perhaps – who don’t drink and who also see the world through a rosier lens, and have stabilised emotions and mental health, leading to a more positive outlook and much cheerier moods?
dearieme
1 year ago
“when I was using alcohol to numb and unwind”: twat.
“you have to do more work on yourself”: twat again.
We’ve decided that we will no longer buy wine to age and that we will, slowly, drink our way through some of the grog we already own. We each had a small glass of Malmsey after dinner recently. Delish. Have some Madeira, m’dear.
DocBud
1 year ago
“Find an at-home hobby,” he says. “Pick up a book“.
When I read, I like to do so in the bath with a beer or sat in our bar with a glass of wine.
john77
1 year ago
Not a single scientific fact stated, just the sales pitch of someone selling non-alcoholic”cocktails”
Having, in my youth gone through more than half-a-dozen cycles of a period of teetotalism followed by a return to normal drinking I find all but one of his assertions incompatible with observed data, the odd one out being that for which I had no data. {I was celibate at the time, so I cannot comment on sex life}
Dennis, Moderate In All Things
1 year ago
Therefore, depending on how much alcohol you typically consume, the first day off can be a little, ahem, rough.
This is not something any moderate drinker would experience upon skipping a day or two of wine with dinner. If you quit drinking and then suffer from withdrawal, you’re not a moderate drinker.
I think the author has confused quitting the abuse of alcohol with the quitting of drinking alcohol. Many, if not most, of the benefits cited have more to do quitting abusing rather than quitting using.
Southerner
1 year ago
Uhhh… with all the money saved you buy a supercar, don’t you?
Stonyground
1 year ago
As with many things, it is all down to the individual. As a teen I used to regularly get pissed at the pub until I decided that I wanted to save up a deposit for a motorbike. Just knocking it on the head has never been a problem for me. I’ve gone through periods of abstention and nowadays drink in moderation. I don’t think that there is a noticeable difference in happiness levels either way. I also know someone who seems to have always been a heavy drinker and is possibly an alcoholic. His life is a total bloody train wreck and I suspect that, if he managed to quit he would eventually be happier.
Steve
1 year ago
Drinking is bad for you, try smoking the wackity tobaccy instead.
Agammamon
1 year ago
>”dearieme
August 27, 2024 at 11:51 am
“when I was using alcohol to numb and unwind”: twat.
I think we found his problem.
Its not that ‘stopping drinking’ fixed some of his issues, its that he was drinking wrong the whole time. Stopping drinking wrong is what helped him.
Chris Miller
1 year ago
Say a large body of people – peaceful and religious types, perhaps – who don’t drink and who also see the world through a rosier lens, and have stabilised emotions and mental health, leading to a more positive outlook and much cheerier moods?
Many Muslims are secret drinkers (at least in countries where alcohol is readily available). Some interpretations of their holy books make only distilled spirits haram.
Chris Miller
1 year ago
PS Though the above wouldn’t apply to the extremist Wahhabis who cause most of the trouble.
Interested
1 year ago
Chris – yes, I’ve spent many years in the Middle East and am aware of their many hypocrisies (which tbf are no different from the hypocrisies of Christians), but in my experience the breaches are mostly by the leaders, and as you point out in your second post the average muslim is not really a worry, it’s the hardcore loons (many of whom really don’t drink) who concern me.
Ottokring
1 year ago
The domestically brewed beer was quite nice in Syria. Quite malty as I recall. In Jordan it was possible to buy most foreign brewed beers.
I rarely drink nowadays but am not teetotal. I just fell out of the habit. I haven’t really noticed any difference.
I think commenters above are right. This guy sounds like he was drinking to excess.
Steve
1 year ago
Chris – Some interpretations of their holy books make only distilled spirits haram.
Particularly if you’re drinking Glen Findel, or the ever-popular Bunnabeheadin.
…
I’ll get me robe.
Marius
1 year ago
The Telegraph runs at least one article a week on how ‘we’ should all cut down/stop drinking or featuring the ‘journey’ of some old soak who has now packed it and feels marvellous, with the repeated implication that it would be the same for us all.
I can only assume that one of the senior Telegraph editors is a former alkie with a temperance zeal.
As Christopher Snowden frequently points out, the evidence that moderate drinking is good for you is overwhelming.
Of course all the ex-topers the Telegraphs drag out were blackout drinkers and included a woman who necked a bottle of rose while running a marathon. Not quite your typical middle-class tipplers….
Addolff
1 year ago
Interested @ 8.10, according to one estimate I saw there are 300 million ‘hardcore loons’ on the planet.
25 – 30 years ago, on holidays in Egypt, I enjoyed a good few bottles of ‘Stella’, purchased from a corner shop in Cairo and a small hole in the wall in Luxor…….
Chris Miller
1 year ago
About 10% of Egyptians are Christian Copts, who (among other businesses) run breweries there.
Fad diet?
“Nearly every area of my life has improved,” JW Wiseman, founder of the non-alcoholic craft cocktail brand, Curious Elixirs, says of his decision to quit drinking a decade ago. “It has improved my sleep, my sex life, my relationships, my memory, my weight, my skin, and my pocketbook.”
How curious that a man who founded a non-alcoholic cocktail brand should say that non-alcoholic cocktails are great.
You may suddenly notice you’re seeing the world through a rosier lens. At three months, emotions and mental health have stabilized leading to a more positive outlook and much cheerier moods.
Hmmm.
Does anyone know of a control goup?
Say a large body of people – peaceful and religious types, perhaps – who don’t drink and who also see the world through a rosier lens, and have stabilised emotions and mental health, leading to a more positive outlook and much cheerier moods?
“when I was using alcohol to numb and unwind”: twat.
“you have to do more work on yourself”: twat again.
We’ve decided that we will no longer buy wine to age and that we will, slowly, drink our way through some of the grog we already own. We each had a small glass of Malmsey after dinner recently. Delish. Have some Madeira, m’dear.
“Find an at-home hobby,” he says. “Pick up a book“.
When I read, I like to do so in the bath with a beer or sat in our bar with a glass of wine.
Not a single scientific fact stated, just the sales pitch of someone selling non-alcoholic”cocktails”
Having, in my youth gone through more than half-a-dozen cycles of a period of teetotalism followed by a return to normal drinking I find all but one of his assertions incompatible with observed data, the odd one out being that for which I had no data. {I was celibate at the time, so I cannot comment on sex life}
Therefore, depending on how much alcohol you typically consume, the first day off can be a little, ahem, rough.
This is not something any moderate drinker would experience upon skipping a day or two of wine with dinner. If you quit drinking and then suffer from withdrawal, you’re not a moderate drinker.
I think the author has confused quitting the abuse of alcohol with the quitting of drinking alcohol. Many, if not most, of the benefits cited have more to do quitting abusing rather than quitting using.
Uhhh… with all the money saved you buy a supercar, don’t you?
As with many things, it is all down to the individual. As a teen I used to regularly get pissed at the pub until I decided that I wanted to save up a deposit for a motorbike. Just knocking it on the head has never been a problem for me. I’ve gone through periods of abstention and nowadays drink in moderation. I don’t think that there is a noticeable difference in happiness levels either way. I also know someone who seems to have always been a heavy drinker and is possibly an alcoholic. His life is a total bloody train wreck and I suspect that, if he managed to quit he would eventually be happier.
Drinking is bad for you, try smoking the wackity tobaccy instead.
>”dearieme
August 27, 2024 at 11:51 am
“when I was using alcohol to numb and unwind”: twat.
I think we found his problem.
Its not that ‘stopping drinking’ fixed some of his issues, its that he was drinking wrong the whole time. Stopping drinking wrong is what helped him.
Say a large body of people – peaceful and religious types, perhaps – who don’t drink and who also see the world through a rosier lens, and have stabilised emotions and mental health, leading to a more positive outlook and much cheerier moods?
Many Muslims are secret drinkers (at least in countries where alcohol is readily available). Some interpretations of their holy books make only distilled spirits haram.
PS Though the above wouldn’t apply to the extremist Wahhabis who cause most of the trouble.
Chris – yes, I’ve spent many years in the Middle East and am aware of their many hypocrisies (which tbf are no different from the hypocrisies of Christians), but in my experience the breaches are mostly by the leaders, and as you point out in your second post the average muslim is not really a worry, it’s the hardcore loons (many of whom really don’t drink) who concern me.
The domestically brewed beer was quite nice in Syria. Quite malty as I recall. In Jordan it was possible to buy most foreign brewed beers.
I rarely drink nowadays but am not teetotal. I just fell out of the habit. I haven’t really noticed any difference.
I think commenters above are right. This guy sounds like he was drinking to excess.
Chris – Some interpretations of their holy books make only distilled spirits haram.
Particularly if you’re drinking Glen Findel, or the ever-popular Bunnabeheadin.
…
I’ll get me robe.
The Telegraph runs at least one article a week on how ‘we’ should all cut down/stop drinking or featuring the ‘journey’ of some old soak who has now packed it and feels marvellous, with the repeated implication that it would be the same for us all.
I can only assume that one of the senior Telegraph editors is a former alkie with a temperance zeal.
As Christopher Snowden frequently points out, the evidence that moderate drinking is good for you is overwhelming.
Of course all the ex-topers the Telegraphs drag out were blackout drinkers and included a woman who necked a bottle of rose while running a marathon. Not quite your typical middle-class tipplers….
Interested @ 8.10, according to one estimate I saw there are 300 million ‘hardcore loons’ on the planet.
25 – 30 years ago, on holidays in Egypt, I enjoyed a good few bottles of ‘Stella’, purchased from a corner shop in Cairo and a small hole in the wall in Luxor…….
About 10% of Egyptians are Christian Copts, who (among other businesses) run breweries there.