ANYONE CAN QUIT –
May 24, 2023 – After two decades of hard drinking Phil Hoye had accepted alcohol was going to kill him.
“I thought, ‘This is what I’m going to die of,’” he told ABC Radio Melbourne’s Jacinta Parsons.
“I’m already too far in — I’ve already stuffed my body.”
Mr Hoye says he enjoyed being drunk at first.
Then it got to the stage where his first drink was at 10am and he’d have polished off a bottle of whisky by 3pm.
“And that’s at work,” he says.
“Then I’d knock off and go buy some beers and pretty much be unconscious in bed by eight o’clock at night.”
The next morning he would call his wife to ask what had happened the night before. or a period of time, Mr Hoye stopped going to work altogether without letting his wife know.
“One morning I can remember looking at a bottle of whisky thinking I really didn’t want it, but I knew I had to have it,” he says.
“That’s when I realised the [impact of] withdrawals.”
Mr Hoye thought giving up alcohol would be too hard.
He has now realised other people had given up on him becoming sober as well.
“People just thought, ‘Well, that’s Phil,’” he says.
