Plan Guide

Drink Less

This plan helps you reduce or stop drinking by turning your goal into daily choices and a clear record. Each day you prepare for likely drinking moments, use alternatives and support, and log what happened. Each week you review patterns, reset your approach, and plan for slips.

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What setting it up asks you

9 short steps, a few minutes in all
  1. Your Goal Choose the change you want to make
  2. Recent Drinking Your drinking over the last two weeks
  3. Your Triggers The situations linked to drinking
  4. Past Attempts What has happened when you tried before
  5. Health and Safety Things that may need medical advice
  6. Support and Resources Help and resources you can use
  7. Your Preferences Alternatives and tracking that suit you
  8. Target Date Choose when your Drink Less plan will end
  9. Anything Else Share anything that should shape your plan

Then you choose how the plan reaches you, and it is built.

Related reading

Is it safe to cut down on alcohol on your own?

For most people, yes. But if you drink heavily every day and get symptoms such as shaking, sweating or morning nausea when you stop, you may be dependent, and stopping overnight could be harmful. Get advice first.

Read the full answer