Benefits of Dry January (E80)
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Gill discusses Dry January and how a month-long challenge can help you. You’ll learn the physical and mental health benefits of giving up alcohol for 30 days, a bit of the history of Dry January and how popular it is, and how giving up alcohol for a month can greatly improve your self-efficacy or your belief in yourself. She never did a month-long challenge, but she shares a bit about her experience giving up alcohol for 90 days and what she learned from that break.
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Sources
de Visser, R. O., Robinson, E., & Bond, R. (2016). Voluntary temporary abstinence from alcohol during “Dry January” and subsequent alcohol use. Health Psychology, 35(3), 281–289.
Richard O de Visser, Richard Piper, Short- and Longer-Term Benefits of Temporary Alcohol Abstinence During ‘Dry January’ Are Not Also Observed Among Adult Drinkers in the General Population: Prospective Cohort Study, Alcohol and Alcoholism, Volume 55, Issue 4, July 2020, Pages 433–438
Furnari, C. New surveys indicate increasing interest in Dry January. Forbes. 2021.
Cite this episode
Tietz, G. Episode 80: Benefits of Dry January. Sober Powered. 2021.
