How To Quit Drinking After Years Of Hiding Vodka: Jim Weir Sober Story

How do you quit drinking when alcohol has been your best friend for 25 years? When you've been hiding vodka in the toilet cistern, drinking in your car before work, swigging mouthwash to cover the smell, and still nobody around you really knows how bad it has got?

This week on One for the Road, Sober Dave sits down with Jim Weir. Born in Glasgow, now living on the Isle of Man, three years sober and rebuilding his life from the ground up.

Jim shares the full alcohol story. The first vodka and orange at 14. The diamond white and Smirnoff teenage years. Drama school in Aberdeen. Three bottles of wine a night in Cambridge that didn't touch the sides. The flat that became party central. The drink driving ban. The relationships built on co-dependent drinking. The pub landlord night that ended in police, smashed windows, and a sacking. The car drinking. The hidden bottles. The rehab. The relapse. And the moment in a field on the Isle of Man, screaming and crying alone, when he finally decided enough was enough.

If you're a secret drinker, a functioning alcoholic, or someone questioning your relationship with alcohol, this conversation will land hard.

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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.

https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy/

www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

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This show is in Partnership with disordered eating Coach Helen Bennett.

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