7 Weeks to Safe Social Drinking: How to Effectively Moderate Your Alcohol Intake [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Donna J. Cornett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2001

This revolutionary moderate drinking program, based on the successful Drink/Link Alcohol Moderation Programs, was the first self-help book of its kind. It teaches at-risk drinkers how to modify drinking habits, reduce alcohol consumption and prevent alcoholism on their own at home - no group meetings or professional help are required.

This commonsense program first defines "safe social drinking" and offers the Drink/Link Basics - responsible drinking guidelines. Then the drinker learns new strategies and techniques each week to stay within those guidelines including: how to slow down drinking, manage the drinking "urge" and learn from "slips". Many drinkers achieve their moderate drinking goal forever.

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About the Author

Donna Cornett, founder of Drink/Link Moderate Drinking Programs, is a former problem drinker and holds an MA and California College Teaching Credential in psychology. She has counseled thousands of drinkers since 1985.

Cornett is an expert on substance use and abuse has been featured or consulted for articles in numerous publications, including Time Magazine, ABCNews.com, Esquire and WebMD. She is also the author of Moderate Drinking - Naturally!, Moderate Drinking Made Easy and Beat Binge Drinking. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 166 pages
• Publisher: Authors Choice Press; illustrated edition edition (April 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595174965
• ISBN-13: 978-0595174966
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #693,259 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was in my 30's when I started worrying about my drinking. I wasn't suffering from any alcohol-related problems, but I was health conscious and heavy drinking and its consequences didn't fit into my future. And even though I was concerned about my drinking, I didn't think it was serious enough to stop and join AA - my only options at the time.

Armed with an MA and California College Teaching Credential in psychology, I started counseling drinkers in 1985 and started Drink/Link Moderate Drinking Programs in 1988. I believed there was a real need to offer a commonsense moderate drinking program to problem drinkers like myself - teaching drinkers to modify drinking habits and attitudes and reduce alcohol consumption. Problem drinkers outnumber alcoholics four to one. And a problem drinker is still capable of reversing a drinking problem and returning to safe, responbsible drinking with early intervention. If you offer this huge population of problem drinkers - who suffer from years of alcohol abuse and eventually graduate to alcoholism - a sensible, middle-of-the-road program you could prevent millions of drinkers from crossing the line to alcoholism!

I haven't struggled with a drinking problem for years. I automatically know when to stop and enjoy the peace of mind knowing I'll never worry about my drinking again. I've written three books, 7 Weeks to Safe Social Drinking: How to Effectively Moderate Your Alcohol Intake, Moderate Drinking - Naturally! Herbs and Vitamins to Control Your Drinking and the latest, the Moderate Drinking Made Easy Workbook: Drinker-Friendly Tips and Exercises to Control Drinking and Reduce Alcohol Craving and Consumption.

I invite you to call or email me with questions or concerns about your drinking and I'll give you my take. Totally free and confidential. In closing, keep this thought in mind: A healthy lifestyle - physically and mentally - is the antidote to alcohol abuse.

Take Care,
Donna Cornett

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

62 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Problem Drinker or Alcoholic? It Doesn't Matter!, July 3, 2006

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Plato (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 7 Weeks to Safe Social Drinking: How to Effectively Moderate Your Alcohol Intake (Paperback)

I don't know if I was a problem drinker or alcoholic. I don't care - I'm not into labels. But I do know I wanted to drink less and become less dependent on alcohol. And 7 Weeks helped me. One message in the book is you've got to take responsibility for your drinking instead of chalking it up to genes or a bad childhood or whatever. Another message is you can change if you want to. And Cornett gives concrete tips to cut down.

Who care if you're a "problem drinker" or "alcoholic"? If you want to drink less and have a healthier relationship with alcohol, 7 Weeks is for you. I'd pay twice the price for this book if I had to do it all over again.

45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Winner for Anyone Questioning Their Drinking, November 29, 2005

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Drink/Link Fan (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 7 Weeks to Safe Social Drinking: How to Effectively Moderate Your Alcohol Intake (Paperback)

This book has been a lifesaver for me. For years I enjoyed social drinking without problems, but the last couple of years I've questioned if I was drinking too much. This program showed me how to pace my drinking, how to make a drinking plan in advance before I started drinking(which really worked)and how to stick to my limit fairly easily. It also made alcohol less important to me - a huge step in the right direction to get back on the healthy social drinking path again. I recommend this book to anyone questioning their drinking. It's a straightforward approach to drink less and drink appropriately.

49 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this book!, August 10, 2005

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Former Problem Drinker (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 7 Weeks to Safe Social Drinking: How to Effectively Moderate Your Alcohol Intake (Paperback)

I wish I had discovered this book 10 years ago. It spelled out how to achieve moderate drinking. It was easy to follow and best of all it worked for me! There are only a few books out that cover the subject of changing drinking behavior. One is filled with stats, boring and hard for me to stay interested in. Another one was too general - no specifics to help me manage drinking. 7 Weeks held my interest and gave specific tips to keep alcohol consumption down and to beat problem drinking.