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1) Longer lifespan – you will generally die about 10 to 20 years early if you are an alcoholic and continue to drink right up until you die.� Also, many recovering alcoholics will also quit smoking eventually, which is the largest killer of recovering alcoholics.� If you continue to drink your chances of quitting smoking are slim to none.� The fact that most alcoholics are also heavy smokers is a double whammy when it comes to mortality rates.� Heavy drinking and heavy smoking kills people faster than you think.
2) Improved quality of life - if you quit drinking then your life will generally improve in just about every way.� Not only your health, but also your ability to work, get a better job, advance in your career, improve your relationships, and so on.� If you continue to abuse alcohol all of that stuff can only get steadily worse over time.� You may get lucky every once in a while and make some progress, but for the most part you will go steadily downward.
3) Improve your relationships - this is huge.� If you quit drinking then the benefit to all of your relationships in your life will be tremendous.� Not only will communicate more honestly and openly with everyone, but you will be about a thousand times more helpful and useful, and the people in your life will reciprocate that back to you.� Everything will be much smoother if and when you stop drinking.
4) Spiritual growth - if you considered yourself “spiritual” in the past, then quitting drinking will open the door on this wide open, and your life will probably be transformed from a spiritual standpoint.� Even if you do not work a religious or spiritual program of recovery, the basic mechanics of recovery and of not drinking are spiritual in nature anyway.� You can’t help but make progress in this area when you are sober, whether you acknowledge that growth or not. http://www.spiritualriver.com/benefits-of-quitting-drinking/
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