Addictions General Discussion

pornography and masturbation addiction

jaycee2000 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:34:47 GMT

Hello,

I hava an addiction to pornography and masturbation. I have been trying to give up for ages but I just keep coming back. I am in my mid twenties from a loving and caring family who has given my lot's of love and care over the years. I first had the problem when I realised what masturbation was and how to do it and I have just progressed to watching porn and being addicted to porn. I am a shy and timid person and I don't have a partner probably due to my addiction and the lack of confidence it gives me. I am trying eft using various affirmations looking at stress and worry of work, academic performance, depression, frustration of being single and maybe fear and lack of respect of women and to being a bit of loner due to being shy. I try to focus on each of the aspects but that part of eft i find a bit difficult whilst i am doing eft. I say the affirmations out loud but the focusing and registering of my feelings or addictions on a scale is quite difficult. This addiction is seriously affecting my work performance and general personal life so i suppose you can say the intensity is strong.

I would appreciate any advice and help.

Thanks

Where to begin? - Smoking

knucklebrain — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:21:33 GMT

Hello, Kevin here, 39.

I smoke and I hate myself for it. I mean I'm not hung up 24/7 hating myself but I despise the fact that I'm a smoker and it's difficult for me to quit. I've tried everything.

My thing is sugary drinks and cigarettes. I don't drink alcohol or do drugs. I work out at least 1 hour per day. I'm in top physical shape despite feeling like garbage all the time. I know this is because of the last piece of the puzzle. I have to rid myself of the habit and the frappauchinos and the drinks I crave while smoking. It's like an association. I have to have cigarette and coffee (decaf always) in the am.

I meditate and do affirmations the day before I quit and the next morning, I'm out buying a pack. I know cigarettes do nothing for me (Allan Carr) and listened to his audio books over and over. I have done hypnosis 3x.

It's like it's impossible to get into my subconscious. I've learned the full EFT technique. I'm working on part 2 of the book. I've ordered all the DVD's.

The funny thing is that I've used EFT to remove the emotional charge of some bad memories of growing up. Parents fighting daily for 18 years. 18 years of knives, blood and fists and police. The memories are still there, but they no longer bother me. This is promising. Now applying it to EFT is the hard part it seems.

I've done thousands of "even though I smoke" rounds and it doesn't seem to do much. I just know I'm not hitting the right area. I have 2 daughters, 12 and 2 and I need to quit NOW, before it becomes a real problem. I'm not your typical smoker. I was not peer pressured into it. My mom always smoked and I always despised it. There was a x marine they use to hang with. He smoked marlboros and drank beer starting at 6am. He always had a carton in his truck.

Like an idiot, when they went out to dinner I took a pack out of his carton and went in the woods and became a smoker. I coughed and though wow, this sucks. BUT. Only a fool goes and does it again and again, and here I am. Now I did not smoke because I wanted to be like this Marine guy. I have no idea why I wanted to smoke. I've thought about it for hours on end. I have no idea why.

So what do you suggest? Hiring an EFT person is out of the question, I don't have the means to do that. I'm on my own here. Any help is appreciated, I'm at the end of the rope. I will not however throw in the towel and accept that I smoke.

Kevin

Alcohol addiction & EFT

Bren — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:09:15 GMT

EFT has literally saved my life.

In 2004 after 3 1/2 years in AA for alcohol addiction, I chose to drink again. I'd grown to dislike the 'fear base' of AA and felt a limit to who I could be. I still have no desire to return to AA, however the learnings certainly got me sober !

For anyone with an alcohol addiction, I highly recommend EFT. It has taken my therapist and I many months to uncover the real issues behind the choice to "numb" out from life.

Because it had such an effect for me, I have now completed practitioner trainings and work with our own clients using EFT over the phone. The results are always profound.

Who knows where I would be today if it wasn't for this wonderful technique.

My interest in this forum is because I truly believe that addicts need peer support. Since re-connecting with my old AA Sponsor, I finally no longer feel alone in this process.

I'm keen to begin discussions with others who have had an alcohol addiction so that we can support each other on the benefits of being sober, and attracting everything our hearts desire.

Go well,

Bren

Smoking

Dancingcrone — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:35:58 GMT

I am about to quite smoking and have been quite systematic about addressing all the issues I have around it. Quick question - is there a quick form of eft I can use for cravings? Or do I need to do the set up and a whole round of tapping every time? Thanks, Linda

An addiction to being unhappy

katielynn970 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:04:14 GMT

Addicted to unhappiness is the best way I can word it. Being sick and not taking your medicine...enjoying an injury for the attention it brings, simply not wanting to get better. Apathy. Knowing to an extent what to do to fix it, bur simply not doing it because to an extent, you like the pain, the hurt, and the angry feelings. It feels "right" because it's almost all you've known. I could really use some help. There's alot of baggage, and I just don't know where to start. I found out about EFT earlier this year, and have used it with great success with some big issues. I want to change. Anyone familiar with the Briggs myers personality test, I'm an ISFJ. I want to help everyone, and when you realize you can't, it's easy to lose hope. I feel like it happened a long time ago and I just didn't realize it. Maybe it happened when i was a child. I've felt broken on so many levels for so long...bad parenting, bad judgement on my part, society...whoevers to blame, I'm ready to fix myself. Please help. The writing on my walls has been "I hate you" "you're a piece of ***" "I wish I was dead"...never to act on it, more of a desire to just not be where I am, who I am. How do I tap for this? There's more to it than what this post can say. Issues with everyone from my parents to my childs father...somehow there're all tied together. These triggers, whatever it is that turns my mind against itself. Help.

Tapping for negative beliefs around addictions?

Evan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:53:56 GMT

Is it meaningful to tap for the negative beliefs around an addiction? Using smoking as an example...

ET... smoking causes lung cancer...

ET... smoking clogs the arteries...

ET... I am afraid it will destroy my skin...

Logical thinking tells me to leave the negatives alone or it would make it more difficult to have the incentive to give up the addiction. However, I sense that the fearful suggestions concerning an addiction sometimes lock us into immobility, even if we're locked inside the addiction itself. Isn't it helpful to clear these fears as well?

Thanks

Daughter is "addicted" to negativity and limiting beliefs

Nomed Healing — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:50:45 GMT

I'm a EFT adv. practioner and as hard as it is to accept, I realize that it is best not to attempt to work with my daughter and help her with her long list of issues. It is often the very desire to fix our loved one's problems that does not allow us to let eft through us do it's magic. Even if the intention is present our close relationship is what impedes the process for achieving measurable results.

Her limiting beliefs (the writing on the walls) and negativity are playing havoc in her life. GI and digestive issues (chronic), panic attacks, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, shyness are driving her more and more into isolation. We live in a rural area in Northern Canada far away from any larger centres so there are no eft practitioners for hundreds of miles from here. Would eft by telephone (or messaging) be effective ? Her core issues are not linked to any traumatic memories or events and her childhood was a pretty happy one. She just graduated from University recently ( Academically she has faired very well despite her problems) but in her present condition cannot make any plans for the future. Presently she's seeing a Naturopathic Doctor for her physical issues ( that possibly have a strong emotional connection)

Any thoughts and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. It would be a real blessing to connect with someone that would be able to help her pick up her life again and mend her injured spirit.

Best Regards and Blessings to all!

Nomed Healing

Addiction to sugar and toxins

irisa73 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:46:28 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I'm addicted to sweets, I've known it for a long time and was unwilling to give them up. However, in the last month I'm having different physical issues (such as sore throat, headaches, candida and also negative beliefs) and I've been trying to use EFT to solve them, but without much success. So I suspect toxins are involved and the obvious culprit is sugar.

The thing is, if I give up sugar, I know I'll have a hard time with the craving and other emotional issues (I know because I tried to avoid sugar before I knew EFT and it was hard, took me 3 weeks to overcome the craving and obviously I relapsed).

My question is how do I do it, if EFT doesn't work for me (at least not until I've cleaned my system from all the sugar)?

Advice would be much appreciated.

Iris

Surrogate EFT for addiction/depression

michaelt — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:38:48 GMT

Hello once again community friends,

I have a particular query that i was hoping some of you may have some experience and advice that could be passed my way. One of my best friends is currently going through a very rough period in his life. I believe that he is suffering from severe depression and has been this way for quite a while. He is showing all the tell tail signs of depression, very intreverted, very highly strung and suffers from extreme mood swings. I believe that he recognises that all is not well but is refusing to share his thoughts and feelings with anyone. To make matters worse he has counteracted his depressed feelings by becoming addicted to smoking pot. He holes himself in his room for hours on end and this has become his entire life outside of going to work. Several people have attempted to interveine and point him in the direction of seeking professional help but he refuses to listen. Personally i have only been using EFT for the past few months and have already seen huge improvements in my personal life. Having regularly visited this site i have read some articles on surrogate EFT. Would this work on my friends situation?. I would be grateful if someone would help me to help him. He is an extremly bright, funny person who is being destroyed by inner turmoil. If this downturn continues, i really do fear for his future. Knowning him as I do, there is no possible way he would be receptive of learning EFT himself, so I'm afraid the surrogate method is the only one suitable for his circumstances

Hope someone can help

Michael

Habitual Smoker versus Addicted to Nicotine

Sandman — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:58:53 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I'm relatively new to EFT but a very quick study. I've ordered all the dvds, read all the FAQs and all the free manuals. My question tonight is I'm trying to quit smoking myself. But here is the catch, I'm not addicted to Nicotine, I'm a addicted to the habit. I even tried to be hypnotised once and was told that I was a habitual smoker. So anyhow not sure what words to use to help me quit, because I don't crave cigarettes and I don't crave the nicotine. I'm addicted to the habit, if I don't have the habit I'm not sure what I do with myself. This probably sounds silly to the average person but I was hoping that someone on this forum could possibly help me. Any suggestions, tips, advice or whatever would be much appreciated. Thanks for your time, Sandman

Help overcoming procrastination?

katyelaine — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:54:31 GMT

I am new to tapping but experimented after reading the manual and found it to be a cathartic and successful experience. Now, I would like to apply the technique to three addictions that I have and spend much time having internal conversations about why I shouldn't.

My initial response to my excuse making was to phone eft counselors in my state as so that I could have an external motivation for moving forward. I left two messages and neither has gotten back with me, so I thought that I'd try the forum.

I am dependant on wine to fall asleep at night and I feel that this is my most pressing issue. As I am considering and constructing my plans to use eft for this dependecy, I always run into the road block of 'well, what if it works'. I know that sounds incredibly silly because that is, after all, the point, but the fact that it might be effective really scares me. More, the fact that I have had small successes and I believe strongly that this will be effective, really scares me.

I started drinking wine when I was 27 (41 now) specifically to fall asleep after having been prescribed sleeping pills. I thought that the wine was more natural and I didn't like the way the pills made me feel in the morning. I've stopped the wine, breifly, a couple of times but it took a lot of effort and I didn't sleep - once for three days (and nights). After that experience I am more mentally tied to the addiction - I get a little panicky if I don't have wine and plan my day around when I should have my first glass of wine in order to induce sleep based on what I need to do the next day (i.e. sometimes I have to be up at 4:00 am and plan to have my first glass between 6:00 pm and 7:00 pm so that I can fall asleep early enough to get a good nights sleep. I know that alcohol really interrupts my sleep, but that's the reasoning that I use)

I'm really not sure how to push myself through my procrastination. There really isn't any logic to my reasoning, but still there it is.

Any suggestions or advice would really be appreciated.

EFT Procrastination?

katyelaine — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:43:32 GMT

I tried to write this once but got a 'duplicate post' error message. I'm not sure what that means, but if I am restating a successfully completed post, I apologize.

I am new to EFT, but after downloading and reading the manual I experimented with a couple of small things and had a cathartic and successful experience. I went a little bit further by exploring a few painful memories while utilizing EFT and was very pleased with the outcome - through the process, I dredged up memories that I didn't even know that I had, worked through them, and had incredible feelings of peace surrounding the subjects (the peace remains).

So, I thought that I should tackle three addictions that I have - one at a time, of course.

The first and most pressing is my need for wine to fall asleep. I never, really, took any alcohol until I was 27 (I'm 41 now), but started having wine in the evenings after I was prescribed sleeping pills. The wine seemed more natural to me and I didn't like the way that the pills made me feel in the morning. It may or may not be important to note that the sleeping pills were prescribed because I wasn't sleeping because of issues surrounding my mothers life and recent death.

Since then, wine became a habitual thing for me, and I always told myself (and others) that I only took wine to sleep. This notion has been reinforced by the few times that I've stopped taking wine at night. The last time, I stopped for 3 days and did not sleep at all the entire time.

There is the first addiction that I want to address in a nutshell.

My problem is that I can't seem to bring myself to apply EFT to this problem. I do a lot of reading, planning and constructing my strategy but I never do it. The thought always pops up: 'what if it works', and it fills me with dread. I know that it seems silly because, after all, working is the point, right? I am, actually, quite convinced that, once applied to this addiction and the surrounding issues, I will successfully find sleep without wine and that just leaves a big empty hole in my mind.

I don't know what to do about this. I tried to connect with EFT practitioners in my state. I left messages with two that were posted on emofree website, but no one has gotten back with me.

Maybe I need to understand why I've hit this road block but I think that simply knowing how to move beyond it would be most helpful.

Any advice or guidance would be appreciated.

Very addicted to kratom and need EFT help

danica — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:26:01 GMT

I posted this in the main forum but the moderator suggested I post here too since it's addiction related. Here's what I posted:

Without going into my entire life story, I ended up on pain pills two years ago for endometriosis. I got off the pain pills via an "incense" called Kratom. I thought at the time it was a miracle, all natural, etc etc blah blah (yeah heroin is natural too). Now I'm extreeeemely physically addicted to it. My body goes into horrible withdrawals. I'm now taking so much that it's scaring me and it's also beyond my ability to afford anymore.

I don't have the luxury to take days off to just ride this out because of a huge financial crisis that I have to work through.

I also have many issues going on emotionally with a verbally abusive mother and my four year romantic relationship. It's ALL affecting me physically and I feel like I'm having a breakdown.

I know the basics of EFT, have studied the manual .. but it's almost like there's so many different crisis situations going on (far more than at any time put together in my 41 years) that I don't know how to do this right.

Any advice is extremely appreciated. Thanks!

Smoking Hit & Miss

mark4444 — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:04:50 GMT

Hi everyone

I get fantastic results on everyone else that I try EFT on but it's very much a "Hit & miss" situation with myself

I have tryed many & various techniques and systems for smoking without any sustained success.

It seems to be a general thing with me and EFT not just smoking

So what am I missing?

So I am wondering if anyone has any ideas as to the wording etc.

Thanks

Mark

Most popular newspaper in UK approves of EFT for helping addiction

Suzanne — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:14:58 GMT

I'm so pleasd about this!

See Sun reporter kick chocolate habit :-D

Spending/Debting addiction

savoy style — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:18:18 GMT

I have family members who have spent thousands of dollars, accumulated credit card and other debts, and now are unable to pay mortgage (even though 4 adult members who are all working and are living in the same residence). One of them has now come to me to ask for a "loan" to pay two months mortgage. I am conflicted because I do not want to alienate these family members but I also do not want to give them money as it will probably never be paid back (and they will not have an impetus to learn to control their spending).

If anyone has dealt with this, please give me guidance how to tap for myself and these spendthrift family members.

Thank you in advance!

Carol

Addicted to cheese!

Jackie — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:28:57 GMT

Hi all

I'm new to this forum. I've been doing eft for a little while now with great results and am looking for some advice on how to tackle my cheese addiction. I went to a nutritionist and based on the problems I told her that I had, she told me to quit eating dairy products but I'm having a hard time. For me, cheese is my downfall. I love it. It's like a comfort to me. Any advice on phrases I could use to tap on to overcome my love of it.

Thanks

shifting addiction problem

Adi Tillett — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:09:54 GMT

Good evening All,

I've an issue with a shifting addiction in that I attach to a certain substance and although I can wean off it with some success, I find myself drawn to something else.

For example at the moment I am smoking cigars - maybe a little unusual but I spent many, many years smoking weed through my late teens and early twenties so have been a smoker of one form or another for more time than I like to think about.

I quite like the occasional cigar but it has escalated this time around. I daren't go near cigarettes as they are far more addictive in my opinion and have actually weaned off cigarettes in the past by switching to cigars.

The issue I have that if I stop smoking cigars (and I could - don't wish to sound arrogant but stopping isn't so much the problem; irratating yes) I know I will head for the fridge and sugary junk, fizzy drinks etc.

I recognise addictions often shift from one substance to another until the core driver is eradicated but my issue is I cannot think what my driver is. Nothing really cropped up in the past to suggest an issue.

I have identified it all sits around a "hollow" feeling inside like something is missing. I can even identify it's whereabouts and it sits from chest down to abdomen.

With this in mind, I know I seek to fill that void with a substance but tapping on variations around "hollow feeling" "emptyness" etc do not seem to do anything at all.

I can marginally fend off cravings with tapping but cause and effect are different propositions so whereas the cravings aren't really my issue, getting shot of that hollowness I mention is proving difficult.

I am hoping to sit down with a practioner shortly but in the meantime, I'd really like to make some headway in stopping going round in circles !!

Does anyone have any suggestions please ?! It bother me that during many sessions of tapping on this and other stuff, i'm not really uncovering anything, so i'm figuring something else is going on but what and how to get at it seem to escape me.

Best regards Adi

tapering off paxil

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:47:41 GMT

Hi. I'm new to EFT. I am tapering off paxil, which I have been on for a decade. Paxil has really serious withdrawal symptoms like brain zaps, rebound depression, anxiety, akathesia and a long list of others. The purpose of going really slowly is to avoid the worst of the symptoms but they do occur from time to time. Can you suggest any EFT techniques to help? thanks, jean56

Drinking to much, how to incorporate tapping

Steve5519 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:17:55 GMT

Most weekends I am asked to go out with friends for a drink, I usually go because I find it fun. But I always end up drinking to much or getting drunk.

I have been doing this for the last 15 years?

I find tapping helps me for most things but I would like to know how to incorporate it in to disciplining myself in tempting situations, or giving me more will power and not giving into temptations, or have more control.

I mean when it comes to the weekend I always want to go out with my friends and have a laugh. But now I am 30 and my girlfriend is having a baby so I think I need to be more responsible.

I am very fit, run a successful company but still find myself going out with friend getting drunk. Well now I am getting bored of this, throwing money down the drain and talking garbage to drinking buddies.

So basically I need to work out how to tap away these thoughts and cut the drinking down.

These are usual things that sway me into this

Saturday, at home, BORED, friend text’s me you up for a drink
If I do go out and say have a pint , I then want more and end up getting really drunk
Find it hard to say no as don’t want my friends to think I am boring
Find not drinking boring

Usually once I have a taste of lager I usually continue all night..

Have been going out drinking since I was 15 so It has been a life long habit. I just need to work out how to break this habit, like I have with my nail biting. So I suppose if you can stop biting your nails you can stop drinking.

I just get bored easily and find it hard to be entertained and my girlfriend is pregnant and no fun at the moment.

Any advise?

Does weight gain still happen?

Hysterp — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:23:06 GMT

My 27 year old son wants to give up smoking, he had planned to go "cold turkey" and perhaps use one of those inhalators, for in the car as that seems to be when he smokes the most. I am reasonably new to EFT but I have asked him to let me help him using EFT which he has agreed too!!My question is when people give up smoking without the help of EFT their is often a great deal of weight gain. Does anyone know if that would still happen, or will this not be the case because we will be addressing the issues as to why he smokes, e.g. emotions (stress when driving) that once they are collapsed the prop won’t be needed.

Where as in going “cold turkey” those issues are still there, so food or whatever would then become the new prop and hence the weight gain.

Four years addiction to Nicorette gums

CSJ — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:27:57 GMT

Hello everyone!

I have stopped smoking four years ago with the help of Allan Carr’s “easy way” method. In this method he stresses out that one should not use any substitute such as Nicotine patch or Nicotine gum.

Even if I found it fairly easy to give up the cigarettes I ignored this recommendation and started using Nicorette gum immediately so as not to have cravings and nervousness (my prior attempts at quitting were really hard on me but extremely hard on my wife who thought I would avoid her constantly then ( the only reason for me to avoid her then was that I used to regularly sneak cigarettes and escape on the balcony of our home etc… Of course she would have smelled my breath which would have been very shameful for me). I must say that this period of avoiding her (not that I wanted to) has been putting a dark cloud on our marriage for quite some time. It is only recently that I have been able to explain why I was not as close to her then and I believe she has understood.

So here I am, four years after having quit and totally addicted to the gum. Four years of my life chewing that awful stuff from morning when I get up to the moment when I go to bed. I do not use it the way it is intended to. They say that you should chew on it so you would release a good amount of nicotine and then park it in a corner of your mouth for a few minutes. No, that is not what I am doing. I am constantly chewing on it, and once it has given all of its juice out I would replace it immediately with a fresh one. I must be going through 15 or more of these gums a day. Needless to say this is a rather costly habit and even though my wife has not mentioned the financial aspect of my addiction she is asking me to do something about it. I feel like being pushed in a corner and find myself quite vulnerable at this moment as I realize that I cannot continue with this habit and also that I lack the strength or desire to stop.

I am intimately convinced that this habit has a lot to see with my general state of anxiety and poor self esteem. It also seems to me as if it was like a shelter in which I find refuge, I guess just like when I started smoking when I was 15 and that I was sent to boarding school (leaving the maternal nest). I have often tried to analyze the reason why I was smoking and this has always been my explanation.

By reading this would there be anyone who would be able to give me a good recipe so I can use the right wording in my tapping.

I thank in advance those who are patient enough to read this. Any suggestion or help would be greatly appreciated.

Nocturnal Emissions.

hopestill — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:19:02 GMT

When I was a teenager I had the habit of masturbation and about fifteen years ago I decided that I would give up this habit, but now the problem I have is that I have nocturnal emissions, the feeling of being drained after lasts for several days and then a few days later or maybe a week or so I have another one. I have been using EFT over a year now for this and other issues and have had a good result except with this issue. I have tapped on feeling guilty, on a circuncision operation I had when I was 6 that was traumatic for me, on the fear when I go to bed of having one. I know most people think that this is normal and probably after a certain time but every few days is bringing me down, I am now 38 and am the same as I was 15 years ago. Please can somebody help me. Thank you.

HopeStill.

Newbie's Cigarette Addiction

Desertrose0317 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:07:49 GMT

Hi all :)

I'm new to EFT and was immediately impressed after reading the free copy of the basic book I started tapping on myself just to see if it really worked and it has with an exception of my cigarette/nicotine addiction. I have tried tapping on everything I could think of just to get rid of the cravings even just for one day but to date I'm afraid to say I was unsuccessful at kicking the habit.

On a good note, I helped a friend surrogately over her hypertension problem and it worked. I've also helped another friend on this arthritis problem and it helped.

I knew exactly how I got started smoking back in 8th grade and the issues surrounding it. I've tapped saying almost everything I could think of and still I crave cigarettes. HELP!!!!

I've tapped on the following beginning with the set up...Even though....

My friends dared me to take a puff....

My mother smoked....

There were people who hurt me...

I love smoking.....

I want to breath fresh air...

I lost my sense of taste

People tell me I stink due to smoking...

Cigarettes has always been there for me and has never let me down...

I sometimes can't breath through my nose...

Cigarettes is my best friend....

I wouldn't know what to do if I quit smoking...

I choose to release this craving forever...

Cigarretes is my comfort zone....

I find excuses to continue smoking....

It's all my fault....

"still" have the cravings....

"Remaining" cravings....

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Meanwhile I will continue to tap hoping one day I will find the right words to kick the habit for good.

Thanks,

Desertrose0317

alcohol---CUT -OFF

rhoda — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:59:47 GMT

dear friends,

has anyone here considered writing switchwords on the alcohol bottle?

the SW pair CUT-OFF seems to be pretty powerful.

also as suggested by Kat Miller, writing YUCK on the bottle of alcohol makes it yuky

warm regards

rhoda