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Need help to drink less?

Reducing your alcohol intake can do wonders for your health. We'll support you to cut down and take control of your drinking.

Talk to us about tools, tips and the benefits of drink-free days

A glass of wine or two to unwind? A couple of pints with a mate after work? It's easy to slip into bad habits when it comes to alcohol. Before you know it, you are drinking too much. If you need help cutting back or buildingnin some drink free days and you live in Dorset, our team can help.

We've helped people across the whole of Dorset and we would love to help you too. Register or talk to us today.

How's your relationship with alcohol? Feel like you're drinking too much too often, or that you could do with some time off ? Take our quiz and find out.

Easy read - drink less alcohol

We want everyone to be able to access the support LiveWell Dorset can offer. Our Easy Read guides explain what we do using simple language and clear images. If you want to know how we can support you with drinking less alcohol,
view this Easy Read leaflet.

Tom came to us for coaching support with his drinking:

" I knew my relationship with alcohol wasn’t ideal. On the surface everything was “okay,” but underneath I was increasingly anxious and finding it hard to deal with life’s difficulties. Alcohol had quietly become my main way of coping."

Read Tom's story

BREAK YOUR BAD HABITS AND DRINK LESS

Try our Habit Hacker.

Designed by health and psychology experts, this quick and simple tool assesses your behaviours, preferences and barriers, then provides bespoke behaviour change techniques personalised to you.

Try our habit hacker

Why DRINK LESS?

Reducing your alcohol intake will reduce your risk of high blood pressure, cancer and dementia. Not only that, but you'll notice improvements to your appearance too! Start your journey towards drinking less today.

Drinking not only harms your health, but it can influence those around you. Here's what you could benefit from by cutting down:

Helps you feel better

Gives you more energy

Helps you handle stress better

Helps you think clearer

Makes you healthier

Helps you live longer

Reduces the risk of artery disease

Lowers your blood pressure

Prevents type 2 diabetes and some cancers

Alcohol and weight Find out how much alcohol can affect your calorie and unit intake.

Health tools and calculators

Our health tools and calculators are designed to encourage and support you to achieve your goals.

Know your numbers

Rethink your drink quiz

How to tackle cravings and urges

Tools and Calculators

LEARN MORE ABOUT HEALTH

Our articles will give you guidance and tips on why it is so important to stay healthy.

Need additional help?

We work alongside many specialist local alcohol services. If you are not sure which service is right for you, talk to our team.

With you: With You provides free and confidential services in the BCP area, without judgement, to adults and young people facing challenges with drugs and alcohol. If you have questions, need advice, or just want to talk, we’re WithYou. https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/local-hubs/bournemouth-christchurch-and-poole

Reach: Reach offers free, confidential support with mental health, alcohol and drugs, at many locations across Dorset, excluding the BCP Council area. https://www.waythrough.org.uk/find-support-near-me/reach/

Drinkaware: The Drinkaware Trust is a UK independent alcohol education charity that aims to work with others to help reduce alcohol-related harm by helping people make better choices about their drinking. https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/

Alcoholics Anonymous: AA is concerned solely with the personal recovery and continued sobriety of individuals with drinking problems who need help. AA is free to everyone and is there to provide support to those looking to reduce alcohol consumption. https://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk

How does this work?

The tailored approach LiveWell Dorset uses to come up with solutions to the things that are stopping us achieving our goals, is based upon work done by University College London developing the COM-B model of behaviour change. In this model, all behaviour is influenced by understanding a person’s capability to change, their opportunity to change and their motivation to change. By understanding which of these is the biggest barrier to change, we can tailor support accordingly. This model of behaviour change is at the centre of the support we offer, online and in person.

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When you register with LiveWell Dorset, we ask you some questions about you and your health (how much you smoke, how active you are, how much you drink and how much you weigh). We store that information and use it to shape our service offer to you – such as the advice we give or the extra services we connect you to. The only people who will see this information will be those involved in the delivery of the service and management of the data. If you would like to use extra services (such as slimming clubs and pharmacies) we have to share this information with them. For us to be able to put you in touch with these services, we must have your consent to share that information with the service (we’ll ask for that later, when if you sign up for extra services).

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