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- If you stop drinking, even for a brief period, it can alter your perspective of alcohol consumption.
- Here, author Bob Curley details 10 lessons he learned from being sober for six weeks.
Nearly everyone who enjoys a good drink has joked at some point about giving their liver a break. After a recent medical procedure, I did it in real life for health reasons.
I didn't touch an alcoholic drink for a month and a half - or, as I like to say, my longest period of stone-cold sobriety since I started drinking as a teenager.
I'm back to moderate drinking now, but some of the lessons I learned those six weeks have stuck with me.
Here are 10 things that surprised me when I temporarily quit drinking: