I have a question is tapering off better than cold turkey when quitting alcohol? The question comes because when I decided to quit I went on google and googled best way to quit drinking. On webmd and heathline just to name a few on the first page it said that cold turkey was the best way to quit because tapering off as a drinking you will not quit, harder basically. 2 months today of being sober but still have symptoms from time to time. What I am thinking right now I should had tappered off and maybe I wouldn’t be feeling like this at 2 months. I went from drinking 6 to 8 beers a night for over 6 years to zero from one day to the other. Just thinking if I would had got it down to one beer a nigh it would had been better. Like if you were trying to stop a car wouldn’t it be easier to stop a car at 10 miles an hour instead of 45 ,miles an hour.
This depends on how serious you are about quitting. Cold turkey is quitting. A beer a night is just slowing down. Good for you if you can do that but more than just me in this forum will tell you alcoholism is a progressive disease. Things will only get worse if you decide to keep going. I have tried almost everything you can think of going back 5 years of fighting this disease. The only thing that works is having help from others like your doing on this app, going to meetings, having a higher power greater than yourself, or maybe for you a strong will power. I wish you luck in your battle.
Hey! Congrats on 2 months sober! That’s amazing work. At this point, What happened two months ago is irrelevant. You’ve already done the important thing…which is quit. Your body is now doing a lot of really important work to “right the ship”. That comes with lots of different symptoms for each person. Drinking again will do nothing but prolong this process, cause you to start over again…or worse. Keep putting good food and water into your body and sleeping whenever your body feels tired. There are lots of threads on Here that look into supplements (there are lots of nutrients we lose when we abuse our bodies…for me a b complex, magnesium taurate, a liver detox supplement and a TCM kidney blend were important, but that’s just my personal healthy history)
Congrats again on your sobriety. Glad you’re here.
wouldn’t it be easier to keep a car running as is than to take the wheels off? our minds can play some shady tricks to try and get us to go back out in early sobriety. way to go on 2 months, that’s rad 
After two months, what you are feeling is not alcohol withdrawal. Even in severe cases, the physical stuff is over in the first couple weeks, and usually it passes in a few days if you even get a withdrawal at all.
What will be happening at two months, though, is Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS). You can look this up on whatever medical information site you like. These are mostly sleep disturbance and psychological symptoms, e.g. irritability, anxiety, mood swings, etc. This is normal and will ease with time. There aren’t any known ways of avoiding it, you just have to cope.
Additionally, you may have other stuff going on that had just been masked by the alcohol use. It’s not uncommon for people to discover an anxiety or mood disorder now that the symptoms aren’t being smothered with alcohol.
Recall that this car, alcohol addiction, is headed towards a cliff, and no one has a clue how close to the edge it is. I don’t care how easy it is to stop, it has to stop, and soon. Tapering would be giving it “only a little bit” of gas, when the key factor here is the brakes.
Also the car is on fire.
Thank You all for the advice and knowledge you guys are great, I love this forum its great. As the paws continue can they present themself in a physical way, like I think the biggest thing with me right now is the anxiety especially at night time when I use to drink. Whenever I get a phyical pain what so ever I start thinking that something bad is gonna happen to me dont know why and than it esclates to somethingelse like more bad thinking which sucks any advice on that, I think my body is not use to this being sober.
I’m 10 days away from being 2 months sober from alcohol!! Congratulations on your 2 months!! I had to quit cold turkey. I am not a normal person nor will I ever be a normal person that can have one drink per night or taper off because I am an alcoholic, I would have ended up getting drunk every time. I have never been this sober for this long in over 9 years so it is hard still. It does get easier, don’t you feel it has? I find talking and connecting on here has helped me a lot! Congrats again
Trying to do different things in the evening was a big challenge too. Yes, it’s an entirely different lifestyle. One you’re learning all over from 6 yrs of previous daily routines. Whether we go from bad to good, or good to bad, when we change things abruptly our body & mind tend to give us the finger. You are doing great and congrats!
Your doing an awesome job.
This site helped me stay focused also
I was lured into shady thinking many times, and this looks like another form of it. If I think I can just have one or two or six and not lose control, or if I think about maybe just getting smashed one time, on vacation far away and nobody will know, or if I think that maybe I shouldn’t have quit drinking before hard seltzer was a thing - all of that falls under the category of romancing the drink for me. The truth is there is nothing left in a drink for me, nothing so bad a drink will help and nothing so good that a drink won’t ruin it. So if there is nothing left, I have to train myself to dismiss those thoughts when I recognize them.
Here’s the deal. You’ve been dry for two months and that is awesome! You did not drink today and that got you another day farther from your last drink, and that’s awesome. You have decided to be sober, so be sober. When I worked on building my sobriety brick by brick and day by day, I made my self open to a whole new set of wonders and a fantastic life.
Of course, as an alcoholic in early recovery you’re going to have these thoughts, these fantasies about drinking and what it meant in your past and what it means now. And this is a good place to dump those thoughts - but be sure to dump them and not to take them out of your pocket and pet them and play with them and put them back for another day. Because if you’re second guessing how you got sober, it sounds like you’re planning how to get sober next time. Our alcoholic thinking, whether from years of repeated experience or just broken thinkers, often seems out of our control and in conflict with our best interests. So be wary.
He’ll yeah! Stick it out! I remember around 2 months feeling really hopeless for a moment but things started to click at 3 months mentally and things got better in my life in 6 months. You need to have patience and compassion for yourself.
After feeding yourself substances for so long it is not an overnight fix to get better but you will feel it.
With the ebbs and flows of life, good times are coming.
So are you! 
Well the way I see it you made it through 2 months without anything, no need to question it now. One day at a time is what I keep hearing and some days that saves me because your def not gonna kick a 6 year habit completely in 2 months. There will be demons and temptations. Stay strong!
Thank you all for the comments and support. Sometimes is very discouraging that after so many days you still feel like crap. Gonna stay sober because is something that I want but its not easy. This forum is my support since the AA meetings got canceled due to the virus, Thankful for that
Hang in there. Check out intherooms.com
Thank you Jack gonna look in to the room, anything that can help I will try