The taste and not just drink an airplane bottle. But the put a micro dose in the cap. Is there anything out there like that he is currenly doing could on this new pickle tasting stuff. Had the same small bottle over 3 months. Anything kind of similar?

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Tell him to get on Naltrexone if he wants to drink himself sober. Its legit and one of the most effective approaches known, actually retrains you so alcohol doesnt get you what you expect from it

  • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    So your brother’s solution to the drinking problem, is that every time he thinks of drinking alcohol, he drinks a little bit of alcohol? And by drinking a little bit of alcohol, it prevents him from drinking a lot of alcohol?

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      23 hours ago

      I think the premise is to drink a capful of foul liquid like say Castor Oil (so says cartoons, never had it myself) whenever he gets the urge to drink, to associate them in his mind and help him quit. Tbf he didn’t invent the technique, it’s old as sin, and it has worked for some people.

      I think the confusion comes from English not being a first language for OP, possibly.

      • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works
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        22 hours ago

        Ah, a non-alcoholic foul liquid makes sense to me. The post originally said alcoholic but the post has been since edited to change that.

  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    How about instead of gross alcohol, he punches himself in the balls when he wants to drink? He’ll still get the Pavlovian response but without having to continue drinking.

  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    This is a bad idea. He will just acquire a taste for whatever “tastes bad”. This isn’t going to be some magic trick that nobody has ever thought of.

    I was lucky enough to be able to quit without any programs, but in my worst, I was choosing things that were “harder to drink” because of their taste (like the most bitter beers I could find) so that I would “drink slower”. All it did was make me acquire a taste for really bitter beer and I drank as fast as ever.

  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I didn’t know there was pickle tasting booze but how about you modify his idea and give him some straight up pickle juice? And just tell him it’s alcohol. I’m pretty sure if your bro ingests alcohol again he’ll just form an attachment no matter how bad it tastes. Because the body craves ethanol.

    So it’s important to put as much time/distance between him and drinking as you can, so the body forgets it’s dependency on alcohol.

    Also helps to have a nice drink that replaces the alcohol. I think pelple use soda, kombucha, tea or coffee. This way you replace the habit and break the association of “i need a drink -> alcohol time.”

    In summary, what your brother thinks he needs isn’t necessarily what he does need. It’s the alcohol craving talking. Always double-check with someone who’s recovered from it themselves or is a medical professional before you try out ideas like that.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
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      24 hours ago

      I’ve found kombucha helpful to cut down my cider drinking. It doesn’t do much for wanting beer or liquor, but it’s a surprisingly good cider replacement.

    • Kraiden@piefed.socialEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Definitely not what op is looking for but an NZ brewery did a pickle sour beer for a while (they might still be doing it, not sure.) link

      It wasn’t bad! It was novel, and it was sold as a paired beer for just about every burger in an annual burger competition in Wellington one year. Unfortunately that meant everyone that participated in the competition got real sick of it though lol

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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      1 day ago

      This is also used as nail polish to make children stop chewing nails.

      I actually loved the taste of that stuff - it made it worse.

  • tychosmoose@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Jepson’s Malört. Famously bitter. I think it’s nice, but it’s often served on a dare in bars in the Chicago area.

    Backup option would be straight Campari. He will need to be ok with probably dying his mouth red when he takes a sip. Mix 1:1 with some Fernet Branca to add some menthol and bitter herb flavors.

    If he finds bitter flavors tasty then idk.

    • hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Malort is so much worse than just bitter though. It’s like a mix of cheap artificial mint and burnt rubber. It’s probably one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever tasted, and that includes pure Bitrex.

  • joan@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Translation (I think): My brother is getting over a drinking problem. What are some suggestions for bad-tasting alcohol for him to carry around in an “airplane bottle” so that he will be reminded not to drink when he wants to?

      • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
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        1 day ago

        This is just his way to keep drinking and sell it to himself and others as “doing something against it”.
        Don’t encourage or enable him in this. The only way to stop drinking is to STOP. DRINKING.
        You don’t fix a drinking problem by carrying alcohol with you wherever you go.

          • bluGill@fedia.io
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            23 hours ago

            That is entirely possible however plenty have found it doesn’t work. I know a girl who drank hand sanitizer because she ‘needed’ her alcohol so much (it was not the kind that had alcohol in it, she just barely realized that and call 911 in time before she passed out, somehow they saved her life)

        • terraborra@lemmy.nz
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          1 day ago

          Spot on. I tried to quit smoking once by switching to menthols, and telling myself that they’d be horrible enough to make me quit. It did not work. I just adjusted to the change and kept smoking for another two years.