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Quitting Drinking — The First 90 Days · HisJourney

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A guided journey

Quitting Drinking — The First 90 Days.

Not AA, not sober-curious. A 90-day field manual.

Length: About 12 weeks
Modules: 6 · 33m
Done: 0 / 6

6 modules · arc reads left → right

The arc
01The honest audit←
02The 30-day reset
03The social architecture

§ 01What you'll learn

01How to audit your own drinking honestly
02What 30 days off does and doesn't change
03How to tell your wife, your mates, your colleagues, without making it weird
04The behavioural traps that cause weeks 6–9 to fail
05What to substitute, what doesn't help, what makes it worse
06When DIY is enough and when to escalate

§ 02Who it's for

01FIFO worker drinking on swing
02Corporate drinker self-medicating after work
03Has been "thinking about it for a year"

§ 03 — The modules

6 sessions, in order.

Begin

01
The honest audit
The 7-question test, the units, what your drinking is actually doing. The number you've been rounding down for years.
5 min
02
The 30-day reset
What to expect physically. Sleep, mood, energy week by week. The four predictable phases.
6 min
03
The social architecture
Telling people, navigating dinners, weddings, mates, your wife. Scripts that don't make it weird.
6 min

04The substitution problem

05The relapse map

06The 90-day verdict

The honest audit. The 30-day reset and what to expect physically week by week. The social architecture of telling people, navigating dinners, weddings, mates, your wife. The substitution problem. The relapse map and the three predictable failure points. The 90-day verdict and when DIY is enough versus when to call a GP. Behavioural protocol, not philosophy.

Begin →

The substitution problem

What you reach for instead. What works, what doesn't, what makes it worse. Why low/no beer is mostly a trap.

5 min→

The relapse map

The three predictable failure points and how to plan around them. Weeks 6–9 are where most men go back.

6 min→

The 90-day verdict

What good looks like. When to keep going, when to stop, when to call a GP. The honest read at the end of the trial.

5 min→