Alcohol
If you experience any physical withdrawal symptoms when reducing your alcohol intake such as shaking, sweating, or feeling anxious until you have your first drink of the day - you may be dependent. If you are dependent it can be dangerous to stop drinking too quickly without proper help and you should seek medical support. For more information on alcohol issues and getting help click here - https://www.gov.je/Health/AlcoholDrugs/pages/alcoholhelp.aspx
Click the button below to use the check how much alcohol you drink questionnaire to assess your drinking and find local support for alcohol or drug use.
Free health apps to help you on alcohol use
These free health apps cover alcohol use and help with keeping track of consumption, cutting down, or stopping completely.
Drinks Meter
Drinks Meter offers anonymous, objective feedback on your alcohol use and comparison to thousands of people’s drinking habits worldwide. It’s not just about the drinks — it’s about who you are, how you drink and the impact it has on your life.
Helpful features include:
- Assessing your alcohol use and it’s impact
- Measuring and monitor your drinking in cost, calories, standard drink sizes, and units.
- Anonymously comparing your drinking habits to over 6,000 other people.
- Anonymously comparing your drinking to recommended alcohol guidelines.
- Adjusted alcohol consumption details based on medical and family history.
- Understanding why risks matter – from heart medication to mental health.
- Personalised advice tailored to your own alcohol use and risks.
Healthy Living
Entirely Free
79%
Level 3
79%
Level 3
NHS Drink Free Days
Drink Free Days is for people who like a drink but want some support in tracking and cutting down on the booze. It also helps you understand more about your current drinking and risk levels as it common for people to underestimate how much they drink.Helpful features include:
- Simple and practical tips to help you control your drinking.
- Easy to update and track your Drink Free Days.
- Receive reminders when you need it most.
- Celebrate milestones when you reach your targets.
Healthy Living
Entirely Free
76%
Level 3
76%
Level 3
MyDrinkAware
Have you ever considered cutting down on drinking before but not known where to start? MyDrinkaware is built to guide realistic lifestyle changes. Setting unmanageable goals can often lead to giving up altogether.Helpful features include:
- See how your drinking compares to previous weeks
- Check how many units or calories are in each drink
- Highlight when you might be at risk of binge drinking
- Set goals to help you moderate your drinking over time
- Understand the link between alcohol and sleep quality
- Plan and celebrate drink-free days
- Set manageable, realistic goals to help make those positive changes stick
Healthy Living
Utilities/ Administration
Entirely Free
68%
Level 3
68%
Level 3
Local support services and more information
For more information to support yourself or someone else with their substance use
DrinkCoach
DrinkCoach is for those wanting to cut down, or simply keep an eye on, their drinking.Helpful features include:
- Keep track of units, calories & cost
- Track hangovers, arguments, cravings and accidents associated with your drinking via a CBT diary
- View & share seven day summaries of your drinking
- Book a one-to-one session with a specialist Drink Coach (may not be available in Jersey)
- Set location and time based reminders
- Set & share goals
- Videos covering mindfulness and breathing exercises to manage cravings and help you achieve your goals
Healthy Living
Mental Health
Entirely Free
67%
Level 2
67%
Level 2
I am sober
Along with tracking your sober days, this app helps you build new habits and provides ongoing motivation by connecting you to a wide network of people all striving for the same goal: staying sober one day at a time. Through it’s growing sober community you can learn from others and contribute by sharing insights and tactics that have helped you.Helpful features include:
- Tailoring the app to your needs and covering alcohol, drugs, tobacco and others.
- Trackers to monitor sobriety, saved money and time, as well as withdrawal symptoms.
- Logging reasons or photos to help remind and motivate you towards quitting alcohol.
- Daily pledge tracker which you can review and add notes at the end of each.
- Daily recaps to help analyse triggers.
- Share your story with others or just for yourself.
- Tracking milestones and celebrating success.
Healthy Living
Mental Health
In App Purchases
66%
Level 2
65%
Level 2
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Our health app library only contains compliant health apps, so we can be sure that the ones we recommend meet digital and clinical safety standards. You can visit the app library at islandliving.orchahealth.com Please be assured we do not expect apps or the library to replace any services you may be using, but rather to complete them.