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Understanding Your Relationship with Alcohol, a conversation with Keith Cronin
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An increasing number of people are deciding that they want to live an alcohol-free life. Many will use healthy eating campaigns like Dryuary as the catalyst for starting their new alcohol-free life. Yet living alcohol-free can be more complicated than simply switching to soft or alcohol-free versions of your favourite tipple.
In this conversation Michael Millward explores with Keith Cronin the founder of alcohol-free living discuss how complex our relationship with alcohol is and why this can make achieving an alcohol-free life more difficult than we might expect.
By the end of this episode of Fit For My Age you will be equipped with the information you need to overcome many of the obstacles make achieving an alcohol-free life so difficult.
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Introduction to 'Fit for My Age'
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Made on Zencaster. Hello and welcome to Fit for My Age, the health and wellbeing podcast from Abbasidar. I am your host, Michael Millward. As the jingle at the start of this podcast says, fit for my age is made on Zencaster.
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Podcast's Thought-Provoking Aim
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Now that I've told you how wonderful Zencastr is for making podcasts, we should make one. One that will be well worth listening to, liking, downloading and subscribing to.
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Very importantly, on Fit for My Age, we won't be telling you what to think, but we do hope to make you think.
Introducing Keith Cronin
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Today, my guest is Keith Cronin. Keith is a coach who helps men to live an alcohol-free life. He's originally from Ireland. Keith is based in South Yorkshire, which is the industrial part of Yorkshire, the heavy industrial part in which the traditional industries were mining, steel and engineering.
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Now that I've paid the rent, it is time to make this episode a fit for my age. Hello, Keith. Michael, how are you? I am extremely well. Thank you very much. And I hope that you can say the same. I can, definitely. Brilliant. It's wet and windy here in West Yorkshire. Same in Sheffield, yep. When we have wind and rain, we don't do it by halves in Yorkshire. Correct. Can we start, please, by just you explaining a little bit about your history and how you ended up in South Yorkshire, an Irishman in South Yorkshire.
Keith's Journey to South Yorkshire
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How did that happen and how did you come to set up your business? Yeah, it sounds a bit like a song title, doesn't it, when you say it like that? The Musical Irish. Yeah. So, yeah. Hi, everybody. I'm Keith Cronin. um Yes, originally from from Dublin, Ireland. Like a lot of people that and come to Sheffield, they actually end up staying. Sheffield's a fantastic city, and but also there's usually um a woman involved along the way. so um
00:02:54
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I knew it. I knew it. That's that's why I'm here. So, yeah, i my my journey to the UK started and after college in Ireland and came up to university in the Midlands and in the sunny town of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton University, more specifically, Walsall. And that was in the year 2001. So that's ah yeah. li Well, what are we now? We're a long time from then. So 2001 was when I first came to the UK.
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And that was the start of my process and I met my lovely wife Laura. Fast forward to to now and we are living here with our our two lovely boys aged 10 and 12 in Sheffield. Great stuff. You were a
Role as Alcohol-Free Living Coach
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PE teacher. Yes. Now you are an alcohol coach. I am an alcohol free coach.
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ah ah Important word, important word. Alcohol free coach. Tell me what an alcohol free coach does. Yeah, so I suppose I am the coach that I wish I had Michael when I first start exploring and going through the whole world of taking a break from booze, questioning why do I feel like this? Why do I feel so rubbish? Is this normal? Is this it? Is this my life? Is it just, you know, I drink every weekend and then I feel rubbish and maybe you've come Wednesday or Thursday I start to feel okay and then I do it all again. um So I am the coach that I wish I had in in simple terms and I have
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For me, the best job in the world. I get to work with men that want to elevate their lives by taking a break from booze and just seeing what, how, how capable they can be. They elevate their lives and they remove booze. The sky's the limit for them. I get to work with them. I get to support them. I get to give them all my tips, my experience. I bring in lots of different elements that I'm sure we will go into. It's an absolute privilege. Sounds interesting. You've obviously got a passion for it.
Cultural Norms around Alcohol
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But listening to your talk there about the being the coach that you wish you'd had when you decided to change your relationship with alcohol, I'm thinking
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yeah But the big question is like, why do we as men start drinking? Why do we associate drinking alcohol with being a man? Why does that happen? Yeah, it's ah I've actually I've delved a lot into this, as you you might imagine, in the in the world that I live in now. and well Well, let's think about it for a second, Michael. If you've grown up in in Britain, in Ireland, probably grown up where alcohol was um around you, you know, it was definitely um in in my life growing up.
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um It was definitely something where you seen, that's where the adults went. That's where the adults had fun. Now look, as as adults now, we can see that it wasn't all fun, but as kids, you you were kind of shown this thing. I know growing up in Ireland, alcohol, booze, pubs, it's literally in our DNA. It's in our culture. And there's a lovely part of that culture around, you know, community coming together. Pubs can be great places, singing, talking, joking, laughing.
00:05:56
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But alcohol is a separate entity to all of that. And alcohol is not all good. And um we know that now. And and and the research knows that. But the lived experience shows us that. But when you're a kid, you probably think, when I grow up, I'm going to drink. I can't wait till I'm old enough. And obviously then you sometimes try it earlier than you should. um So it's always something that was really held up um on a pedestal. you know ah You've got religion in Ireland and you've got you've got pubs and and drinking and alcohol and you shouldn't question both of them. That was the kind of 1980s Ireland that I grew up in. Thank God it's a different place now. So I suppose what you're saying then is that how young are you when you can get served in a pub and not ask to justify your age? it sort of like
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What you're describing is a rite of passage in some ways. Yeah. Yeah, a hundred percent. It's a really good way of, a really good way of saying it. And you say getting served in pubs, most people's first drink is not in a pub. um I work with guys and they they were drinking when they were 12 and 13. I think I was 16 when I went trying to buy cider.
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and what was called a flagging of cider. I've never drank cider since, I find it revolting, but that was what we were doing. We were getting our hands on what whatever was available. and i Me and my friends used to club together and we'd try and go and buy these bottles of cider and then drink it together. It was disgusting, but we were doing it and we we just talked. That's what you do. you know You get to an age and see if you can drink alcohol. Yes.
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do And it sounds almost, I mean, if we all go through the same sort of thing, so like, you know, total disclosure. but every I suspect that every man listening to this we' be able to say yeah we did the same sort of things we would think we were really growing up we'd feel terrible as a result and yet we carry on doing it and we end up spending more and more money on it and it's not just the physical aspect of the damage that it does to our bodies and we know that it's doing that the hangovers you talk about the pubs and the pub being the center of a community and the very positive aspects of that but
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There's also a lot of negative aspects of of our cause while the knock-on effects it it can if it's If the alcohol takes over you don't need to be an alcoholic in order for alcohol to ruin a decent life Do you know?
Alcohol's Impact on Mental Health
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100% Michael and lord yeah We're in an absolute we're in a mental health crisis. We are in an absolute epidemic of man men their own lives, men dying by suicide, the the amount of people that are intoxicated either through alcohol or drugs when they actually end their own lives is is is a high percentage but regardless of of actually the severity of of of dying by suicide
00:08:52
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the day-to-day living with anxiety and and and and getting worse and worse and worse. People don't generally, when they first start drinking, kind of they feel rubbish, you get sick, but you don't kind of have that huge kind of you know knock-on effect. It's as you go in from your 20s into your 30s, 40s and 50s,
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it becomes so debilitating to the point where people have to schedule times off. They're like, okay, I'm going on Saturday and it's gonna be an all day session. They write off Sunday, they clear their diary. They know Monday is gonna be a way a wasteful day. and And that day can be just, them days can be absolutely wipeouts. And if you're a parent, if you've got responsibilities, it it it's just gone and and and you don't get that time back. So I think that's a huge, huge thing for the people that I work with.
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they are just fed up feeling fed up essentially and and and they they want better from their lives and they they actually just say you know what enough's enough i want to get rid of this thing i want to get rid of alcohol when we talk about the social aspect of alcohol as well a lot of an average man's lifestyle a lot of the activities that they get involved in sports, for example, will finish up, you know, after the game, we go to the pub, right? We've played a game of golf, we played a game of squash, played a game of tennis, played a game of football, whatever it is, we'll go to the pub. I think it takes a lot of courage. Let's be honest, it takes a lot of courage for a man to say, actually, I don't want to go to the pub.
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right And yet if one man says it, another another man is likely to say it as well. yeah just It is extremely difficult, though, to be the the person who's going to not follow the crowd, not do the normal thing. How do you build that confidence in someone to be able to do that?
Strategies for Alcohol Abstinence
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Because if somebody goes to your website, which is alcoholfree-living.com,
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they're going to start, I think, after I read it, it's so like, yeah, I can see the roots, but it's still, you know, it's on the screen, but it's still, it's it's not an easy process, is it? No, 100%. So look, what what what I do, Michael, is is intensive. You know, I only work on the one with guys. So, you know, I meet weekly with them. We make plans of action. we We walk through scenarios. I have a method called playing it forward. So have you always,
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play golf every Friday and afterwards you guys go and you sing three or four four beers and and that's just the start of your Friday and then you go home and you have some wine and then you drink all day Saturday and then Sunday you have a few more just because you're feeling feeling rubbish. Your weekend can all be traced back to that first drink that you've had.
00:11:33
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after golf on on the Friday. So we have to work on being able to navigate that situation. For some guys in the first instance, it's just play golf, get out of there. That's an enough. But that's not really, and you know, that's just a sticking plaster. That's not actually solving it for me. They've got to be able to see to get to the point where they can go and do these things, where they can go and enjoy the 19th Hall and maybe have a drink. There is loads of alcohol free options. There's never been a better time to take a break and you know try another alcohol free beer. Everywhere has them. um It's crazy. So there's actually never been um a better time to have all of these options. But one of the big things that I talk about Michael is being a rebel and just even thinking and considering around
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taking a break from booze and stepping out of it. You've been a rebel because why would you? Everyone else is boozing. The whole of society boozes. Everyone boozes. I was i was head of my booze crew when I was at university. I invented my own drinking club because I was barred from every pub in the local town for going and fighting the the doorman and bouncers. It was crazy.
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But it's a natural inclination for me now to be the maybe the first or the only person in my kind of alumni to to break away and say, I'm done with it. i'm I'm finished with it. You know, because I was the one who pushed the envelope and lots of the men I work with.
00:12:56
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they're they're They're so successful in what they do. It could be in business life. It could be in their fitness life, but they still just can't kick this thing called booze. So actually for them to then turn around and take a break and switch it off, it's actually completely normal for them because it's just another area of their life where they're like, I'm done. I'm doing something drastic. I want to get rid of it. Well, the men that you are you are working with, ah from what you're saying, I'm thinking they're not the sort of people that are sitting at home alone with a bottle.
00:13:24
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yeah their relationship with alcohol is is linked to their social life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%. Now, there will be definitely um various various different and types of that. are Some people will be drinking at home when they come home. That'll be linked to their reward process. Some people, it will be when they have client engagements and meetings and they're going out. And some people, it's just completely linked to the weekend. But it's irrelevant when you're drinking. It's about the process of quitting it's about the process of taking a break it's about the process of really focusing on your wise and every man every person has their wise their reasons and we're just really really trying to amplify that up trying to really harness that energy trying to also look back to you know most guys when they talk to me they've usually had some really bad experiences with booze they've really kind of messed up somewhere along the way or
00:14:18
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They may have just got a be got away with it, but they know it's coming again. They know what's going to happen again down the road. um and And that's what scares them, losing their family, losing their business, losing access to their children. And that's the danger zone. If a man goes into that area, sometimes he doesn't come back from that. So that's why we want to get rid of the booze because so much of the behaviors comes downstream, Michael, from the alcohol. The alcohol is the starting block, but as you can imagine, there's so many behaviors that come after that. Yes, with my ah HR professionals hat on, I can remember having to have conversations with people. If you behave like this again at a company event, then yeah your career is over. yeah the out The alcohol is the is the catalyst for the behavior that is going to destroy your career.
00:15:06
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If you lose your income for these type of reasons, it's going to be more difficult to find another job. People don't want to take on the sort of risk. And that then means that your income is gone and all the other trappings of what that enables you to do also go.
00:15:23
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Often in that scenario, there's actually something that's happened way before that. The companies organized that pistol. The companies maybe even put money behind the bar. the The boss, the CEO, the company owner is probably there pumping people with champagne.
00:15:39
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And then when the incident happens, which you then have to pick up as a HR expert, they then wonder why this junior person has done something that could have potentially messed up their career or somebody's done something that they're not proud of. Well, actually, how about the fact that you you guys were pumping everyone with with with free booze beforehand? Booze is a drug, essentially. If you were giving them a different type of drug,
00:16:02
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you would you would consider it to be, um um you know, unresponsible. But some people have a different opinion of alcohol. People forget that it is a drug. Yeah. It's it's not. And we get back to that. So like, oh, just have another one. You know, why aren't you having as much as everybody else? We're all having a good time yeah because we're drunk or we're having because we're drinking. You're not. Oh, well, somebody has to be the nominated driver type of thing. That's perfectly. I'm happy being the nominated driver personally.
00:16:31
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It's cheap. It is it is cheaper to be the nominated driver. But I think that you're quite right. It's almost institutional. How many times do you go along to a business event where there will be a business card draw to to win a bottle of alcohol champagne yeah normally? Yeah. Right. So the champagne, the alcohol, the drug becomes a prize in a competition. yeah How many times do corporations give alcohol as presents to their clients. All the time. Or alcohol as prizes to salespeople because it's an easy option to provide a bottle of champagne or but the whatever it is. But what we're doing as employers is saying it's okay to have this. And then when people have too much, we then criticize those people.
00:17:22
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Yeah, exactly. And do you know what, people often, they're not coming from a place of malice. I caught myself doing it recently, and I've been over three years sober, alcohol free. I was like, I was going to buy someone, someone that did something nice. And I was like, oh, I guess, I was like, what am I doing? I'm like, so I got them a candle. So if ever you're getting a gift from me now, I get them a candle because I was going to get chocolate. I was like, yeah, but chocolate's not always great. Some people don't want it. Candles. There you go. If we think about it as a drug, you would not give people other sorts of drugs, but for some reason alcohol is acceptable in many ways for them. Of course, but that's cost millions and billions of pounds in marketing, clever marketing. It's an attractively packaged poison, essentially, but that's just where we're at. We don't see it as that. Yeah, that's the challenge. That is part of the changing of our relationship with alcohol.
Reassessing Alcohol Relationships
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it's not necessary to sort of say never again Right. Yeah, but it's almost as if we don't understand enough about this drug that we consume as As if it's there's nothing to it But it is a drug and it is an addictive drug and it is something which can cause a lot of harm to physically mentally and then in the wider sphere of the consequences of it can be social and relationship wise as well so i'm learning a lot here you know keith it's good and and i think the thing is though ah that having a conversation with you about alcohol
00:18:56
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is validating my own perception and relationship with alcohol. Because I will not put my business card into a business card drawer if the prize is alcohol. yeah I will not do it. I will not offer someone a gift of alcohol. yeah It's not something we should do. But it's really strange to sort of have a conversation with someone about this and actually feel validated in my own view of it, because you share the same sort of view that this is something that we need to know more about. We need to understand how it impacts us and we need we need to know enough to be able to make the adult decision about what it is that we want our relationship to be with this this product, but regardless of what format it it is in.
00:19:47
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Yeah, imagine a guy who's listening to this on his his morning commute and he's he's he's driving the car and he he's listening to us too. I don't want that guy to think, well, there's some crazy Irish guy who has a drank and treat years and a Michael there who who isn't a big drinker or does a drink big, okay? I just want to speak speak to that guy just for a second to say, you've probably been drinking most of your adult life, if not all of your adult life.
Health Benefits of Reducing Alcohol
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If you're if you're an average guy and you're in your 40s, you've been drinking for over 20 years. and And out of those 20 years, you might not have had seven days without booze. You might have to, do you know, loads of guys string weeks together and they have periods off if they're training or something. But lots of guys have just don't go a week without booze.
00:20:35
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And um what I always try and say is, you don't know what it's like to take a break. You don't know what it's like to have 30 days off booze, where you sleep better, where you start to get your diet better, where your gut and your digestive system starts to feel good, where your energy levels go through the roof.
00:20:53
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where you're not sleep sleep-dep deprived, where you're not cranky, you're not low on energy, you start to make good food choices, yeah your diet starts to look good, your skin looks good, yeah your hair looks good, your eyes look good, you start to get compliments, you start to lose unwanted body fat. I want them to do that feeling for 30 days and then I say, now make your own decision.
00:21:15
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Now, at least you have all of the information and it's not just some kind of mystical thing that these guys are talking about. Physical consequences of being alcohol free for even a short period of time.
00:21:27
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it's you can't your your appearance will change your attitude towards life will change as a result of removing for a short period of time a drug that your body does not need do not need this drug that you pay a lot of money in order to be able to consume and there are alternatives that you can do but still it is a bit of a leap to say well yeah when I'm not with this group of people, I can follow this 30 day, 60 day routine. But what will I lose? If I stuck with the alcohol, what will I lose? And that's a decision. What they get from your website, I think at least is that start of a strategy for like, what do I replace the alcohol with? right And you change, you replace it with a more positive attitude towards life and different options like that mean that you don't have to miss out.
00:22:23
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You don't feel like you're losing it. This is the whole point. So we cannot be having this kind of woe me relationship, this attitude towards it. You're going to be getting after so many things in your life that you're not going to have any time to be feeling, you know, sorry for yourself. You're going to be doing all the things that booze was stopping you doing. You're going to be getting up and going early morning for for a walk, for a jog. You're going to take your kids swimming. You're going to go and see the sunrise. Because you don't do any of these things when you when you're hung over. You promise yourself it's always next week, it's always next year, it's always the the year after and it doesn't actually happen. How many people want to do the marathon? They want to start running park run?
00:23:02
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They want to start going and doing things with the show. They just put it off. And there's actually a lot of it is down to making the wrong choices. Booze comes into that and in so many ways. So it's it's not about feeling sorry for yourself. It's the complete opposite. um it's I call it like creating space and you're just kind of walking away day by day away from Booze.
00:23:21
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and And the further you walk away from booze, the easier it becomes, the less it comes knocking on you. because it Because it is, it'd be wrong of me to say it's it's not it's it's not easy. It is a challenge. and There's various different degrees of challenge, depending on kind of how deep you are into alcohol. But I've worked with guys as as deep as deep, guys who were serious, serious drinkers.
Quitting Alcohol and Other Habits
00:23:44
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um To give you a bit of context, you know, drinking eight, nine, 10 pints of lager and then going on to to short, so you know, whiskies and vodka and um and to to ride the way down to people who, you know, they have one or two glasses of wine in the evening and they might, um you know, it just affects their sleep. But all of them had the same thing they could gain from their sobriety. Yeah. So is there any man that you can't help?
00:24:14
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Yeah, look, I've i've worked with people and my success rates, I've got a 95% success rate i of my latest data, 95% success rate of guys that either start off on the period that we set out, you know, 60 days or 90 days. ah So 95% of them do them days with me. um So there has been one or two that haven't been able to. Sometimes they they want to do it, but they're just not ready. and Sometimes you're ready, but you don't want to do it.
00:24:42
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So you've got to get yourself in that place where you want to do it and you are ready and then you've got the right support network around you. But I'm really proud of that of that success rate. It should be. It's almost as if you can take a horse to water but you can't make a drink, no pun intended. But you have to want to do it.
00:24:59
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hundred percent and and that's part of my kind of qualifying with the guys you know when when when someone messages me for the first time um I often say let' let let's arrange a quick call and that's usually just a telephone call just to say hello and to show them that I'm a real person and not just someone on the internet um and then we sit down and we usually sit down over a video call and and that's where I kind of start to understand them a little bit more And equally, I want them to get to know me and how I work and how to program and and essentially that works. And if and only then both of us feel comfortable at that place to go forward, then I'll actually show them the the full program, what it looks like, the investment that it is for them, and then we go for it. And you know, I can only work with sentimental people. I always say that, and I only want to work with people that are like,
00:25:46
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really want to get after it, they really want to take action and and that's where the excitement is. People are often when they drink they smoke so does someone who comes to you who is a drinker and a smoker find it easier to give up the tobacco as well?
00:26:02
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Yeah. and So when I said things go come downstream, often and they they say, um I only smoke when I drink or I only vape when I drink. I only do drugs when I drink. So actually alcohol can be seen to be this ah you know social lubricant and the lesser of the drugs if if people were kind of given drugs a hierarchy. But actually alcohol is is the catalyst to all of these other things.
00:26:28
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So to answer your question directly, Michael, they find it a lot easier once they knock it the booze to then cut down, reduce, or maybe stop and thereafter. Often the alcohol is the real thing that we have to get hold of. So I don't i don't suggest that they they cut the this the cigarettes straight away. If that's not what something they they're comfortable with, it's better for us to get the booze on a handle. And if that takes us a few weeks and then later on, they they start to reduce their smoking. with with with the intent to then and stop it and then solve it. That's great. All sounds really positive. How can people get involved?
Seeking Help for Alcohol Break
00:27:03
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People can find me, obviously, on my website. You can drop me a message on there. There's a contact Keith on the website, alcohol4e live in hyphen.com. ah LinkedIn is where I live. That's where most of my people come from. So I'm sure you'll find me there under Keith Peronin. And I'm also on Instagram as sober underscore Keith. A message can come true on there. um And for anyone that's out there thinking about taking a break, you're not quitting.
00:27:31
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You're definitely not looking to quit. We're not looking to reverse a whole adult lifetime of booze. But what we could do is take that break. You could take a break and just see how amazing. And essentially, like my strap line says, bring your best version forward. And when you do that, that's when the magic happens. Okay. We will put links to LinkedIn, Instagram, and your website in the description. But today, Keith has been really very interesting and thank you very much for your time. We do appreciate it.
00:27:59
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Amazing Michael, thank you so much. Thank you. I am Michael Millward, managing director of Abecedah. And in this episode of Fit For My Age, I have been having a conversation with Keith Cronin, an alcohol-free coach. There's a link to Keith's website and all the other social media platforms he's on in the description, along with a link to abecedah.co.uk, where you can find out more information about both of us as well.
00:28:25
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00:29:42
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00:30:04
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Our aim on Fit for My Age and on all the podcasts produced by Abisida is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think. All that remains for me to say is until the next episode of Fit for My Age, thank you for listening and goodbye.