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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
For someone with no serious health issues, and who has been drinking 3 to 4 alcoholic beverages every day for 60 years, does it really make any sense to quit? Opinions please.
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What has prompted you to ask this question- after 60 years. Did you ever ask this question prior to asking it here? If so, why did you ask it then? So, did you ask this here simply because you are curious- or did someone tell you that you drink too much so you are hoping to get a lot of, "You're OK" answers here?
Heavy Alcohol Use (as defined by National Institutes of Health):
NIAAA defines heavy drinking as follows:
For men, consuming five or more drinks on any day or 15 or more per week
For women, consuming four or more on any day or 8 or more drinks per week
SAMHSA defines heavy alcohol use as binge drinking on 5 or more days in the past month.
Drinking Levels Defined | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
At the 4 drinks per day you claim to limit yourself to, you drink about 2x the amount considered problem drinking. In 60 years you have consumed approx. 600,000 drinks. If your daily consumption is actually closer 5 or 6 drinks that number jumps up to 900,000. You didn't say what you drink, but if each drink averages $2 you have spent $1.2 Million - $1.8 Million on your habit.
Why have I made taken the time to do all this math? I think there was a reason you came here to ask. And I think that somewhere in my long comment you may find an answer.