flutter

The simple answer is, because I'm a non-drinker.
The 'from the heart answer includes:
Because I love myself now
Because I love my life

That actually covers most things I can think of

ChickenStu

I don't drink, because I have a deadly disease called Alcoholism. And if I drink, it will kill me.

Need I say more?

ANEWAUGUST

I don't drink because I no longer want to. Sobriety has given me the power to make a choice.

MrDavid

I sobered up for various reasons, I suppose. One of which was almost certain though, and it involved my family. I guess it came down to choices, really -that and the promise of a better life beyond drinking. If I had to narrow it down to one 'specific' reason today it would be this: I never have to hear my daughter say those awful words again; Dad, why don't you love me anymore? Believe me, it hurt...

~God Bless~

Matterhorn

Let's see...hangover, blackouts, embarrassment, vomiting, high blood pressure, health deterioration, overweight, divorce, DUI, job loss, shakes, DT's, hospital stay...need I go on? Wineman...you need to let it go and close the chapter on Boozing and start your next chapter and move on.

ButterflyMan

This is a great motto. I'm going to this to myself everyday until it's true.

livethroughthis

I've quit drinking/don't drink because I have been drinking since I was 14, am now 32 and it's just not right... I hate what I am doing to myself (burst blood vessels on eyelids when I awake next day, very overweight, spotty, I also have a history of depression and anxiety). And that's just the damage I am aware of... goodness only knows what's been happening to my insides. My dad is an alcoholic and I am scared I am going to end up like him. Bitter about everything, old and with no friends or life. luckily none of those points apply to me yet! His dad/my granddad(whom I never met) was also an alcoholic apparently.
I need to live. I have a toddler and I am literally all she has. She is my world and I love her so much.
My binge drinking a few times a week of a night time scares the hell outta me as I know it's wrong and that drinking either 2 bottles of 13% white wine to myself or a 75cl bottle of vodka with coke to myself on those few nights a week I drink is just bloody dangerous and stupid and irresponsible. So today I've quit, and I am not turning back. I want a better life for myself but most of all I want my daughter to have a healthy happy mum that's around for her for the next 40+ years at least x

I chose to be the person I have always wanted to be but never was til now. T-Total

CarolD

I don't drink because alcohol turned me into a depressed woman I detested.

AA recovery gives me purpose and joy...

wheresthefun

I chose to become a non-drinker because, if I were to have made a pros and cons list (and I did, in my head), there would not have been one single entry in the pros column, nothing but a long list of cons. Need I say more?

NewMe11109

I don't drink because I want to experience my life ... not stay in a drug induced mental coma that ends in unhappiness and likely death.

GonzoTaxi

I don't drink because a lifetime only lasts for the blink of an eye and I don't want to miss it.

Raindance

Because I finally feel better without it.

freshstart57

Here are a bunch of reasons to stop drinking. 30 of the little boogers, in fact.
30 Great Reasons to Quit Drinking Alcohol

vivid-red

I like number 4 on that list........ not having to hide evidence of boozing from your family!

It is exactly how I was, hiding bottles at bottom of dustbin..in shrubs, etc.

Raindance

That is a great list!

logo

When I drink I never know how it will end. I did not know if I was going to get f***ed up locked up or covered up and that is for real. Don't miss it at all. Logo

BlueMoon

I can't tell you why YOU shouldn't - only why I don't.

Bad things didn't ALWAYS happen to me when I drank
- BUT -
NOT ONCE in 20 years did anything good ever happen BECAUSE I drank.


But mainly, it’s because if I drink, I die.
period.


Blue