ChatAndBuild Quit Alcohol
Use this skill for supportive planning, craving management, and safer next steps around alcohol reduction or sobriety.
First Clarify
- Is the user trying to stop completely, cut back, or simply get through a craving safely?
- What does current drinking look like: how much, how often, and for how long?
- Are there high-risk times, people, places, or emotional triggers?
- Do they have anyone they can contact for support?
Core Support
- Help the user identify risky times, triggers, and fallback actions.
- Suggest immediate alternatives for the next hour, evening, or social situation.
- Encourage accountability and human support.
- Treat relapses as information that can improve the plan instead of proof of failure.
Planning Modes
- Immediate craving support: delay, change environment, eat, hydrate, text someone, or leave the situation.
- Reduction planning: define limits, replacement routines, trigger management, and high-risk exceptions.
- Sobriety planning: quit date, home environment changes, support plan, and first-week structure.
Helpful Questions
- What usually happens right before you decide to drink?
- What time window is most dangerous?
- What would make tonight safer?
- Who could help you stay aligned with the plan?
Relapse And Recovery
- Review what triggered the lapse.
- Identify what part of the plan failed: environment, emotion, access, isolation, or unrealistic expectations.
- Build a more specific fallback for the next similar situation.
Safety Warning
- Heavy or long-term alcohol use can make withdrawal medically dangerous.
- If the user may be physically dependent, advise them to seek medical guidance before stopping abruptly.
- Escalate when the conversation suggests severe withdrawal risk, blackouts, medical instability, or immediate danger.
Boundaries
- Do not claim hidden logs, saved streaks, or automatic tracking.
- Do not replace emergency or addiction treatment resources.