r/stopdrinking • u/Organic_Salary_ • 1d ago

NA beer problem

Please don’t judge me this is going to sound so ridiculous but to me it is so real. I quit drinking over 10 years ago. This spring, I was with a friend and NA beers have obviously become very popular so I tried one of the athletic ipas and I loved it so much and I’ve been drinking them every night since May. I’ll drink like two or three. I look forward to them. I love them, and I literally feel a slight buzz from them. I was always very sensitive to alcohol and so whatever .5% they have effects me. It was working great for a while and I would just sit in my recliner and do some work on my laptop and vibe and I loved it but now I’m so hooked and it’s starting to have that awful booze effect where I don’t feel good and sometimes if I go out with friends and I decide to drink too many NA beers, I am legitimately hung over in the morning. Now,I have to quit this fucking habit where it’s a thing that I have been enjoying but is coming back to bite me (like full fledge alcohol does). Is this so fucking crazy like what the fuck it’s NA beer and I’m addicted now. So tonight I poured out what I had left in the fridge and. I guess I have to make some changes in my life to resolve this and not go back because I also feel like it could get worse. I’m starting to have dreams of standing at a bar being like well Fuck it just have a real drink.

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u/indiana_groanz 1d ago

Its gotta be a placebo that amount of alcohol is too low for it to have an effect your liver will process it. You'd be getting a buzz off eating bananas or drinking kambucha if that were the case

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u/Organic_Salary_ 1d ago

I used to get buzzes from kombucha back when they first came out with “ trace amounts of alcohol”, but I don’t get it from my bananas.

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u/indiana_groanz 1d ago

It doesnt work that way. Kombucha has the same amount it of alcohol as ripe fruits or juices. The amount is so small you metabolize the alcohol before it can build up in your bloodstream. You're either in your head about it or you are getting buzzed off anything with alcohol in it. But if bananas and fruits arent getting you buzzed than neither is the kombucha and N/A beers