{"id":34258,"date":"2018-11-02T15:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=34258"},"modified":"2018-11-02T15:56:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:56:23","slug":"go-sober-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/go-sober-month","title":{"rendered":"Could you go sober for a month?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>With over 60,000 people having completed &#8216;Go Sober for October&#8217;, we asked the public how difficult they&#8217;d find it to stop drinking for a month&#8230;<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34313\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34313\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/cheers-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"Cheers\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34313\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/cheers-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"Cheers\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> A gang of friends raise their glasses of alcoholic drinks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One in five Britons now claim that they don&#8217;t drink alcohol &#8211; a figure that has seen a significant increase in the last ten years.<\/p>\n<p>The British public&#8217;s attitude towards teetotalism seems positive in 2018, with Macmillan Cancer Support&#8217;s &#8216;Go Sober for October&#8217; campaign raising over \u00a33 million in sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps surprisingly, an Office of National Statistics study recently showed that 16-24 year olds in the UK are less likely to drink than any other age group.<\/p>\n<p>With the growing popularity of teetotalism, could it be that British attitudes towards binge-drinking are changing? We took to the streets of Cardiff to ask the public if they could stop drinking for a whole month&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Harriet, 46, teacher, Roath<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34271\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Harriet-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"Harriet\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34271\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Harriet-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"Harriet\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t drink very often, so a month without drinking would be quite easy. I\u00a0think I&#8217;d happily go on a night out and not drink &#8211; I&#8217;d just drive instead! I wasn&#8217;t sober for all of October because I went out to celebrate the end of half term &#8211; bottles of prosecco were only \u00a311.99 in Wetherspoons!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Callum, 30, sports coach, Northern Ireland<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36572\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Callum3-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36572\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Callum3-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve done Sober October before, but I&#8217;d find it quite difficult to go on a night out and not drink. My mates are quite wild &#8211; you couldn&#8217;t go out with my friends and stay sober, that&#8217;s for sure! If I was staying sober, I&#8217;d have to stay in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Anwen, 39, nursery assistant, Corwen<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34291\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Anwen-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"Anwen Corwen\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34291\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Anwen-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"Anwen Corwen\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No. Absolutely not. I drink enough on a Saturday night for two weeks! I&#8217;m definitely a binge-drinker, so I couldn&#8217;t go out and not drink &#8211; you&#8217;d have to lock me indoors with a Christmas film to distract me from the booze!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Aeddan, 20, council worker, Canton<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34302\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Aeddan-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"Aeddan\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34302\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Aeddan-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"Aeddan\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I only drink twice or three times a month so I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d find it too hard. It really depends on where the night takes me &#8211; I could maybe be classified as a binge drinker depending on what kind of mood I&#8217;m in. But I think I&#8217;d be able to go out and not drink &#8211; easy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Paul, 50, industrial window fitter, Mountain Ash<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34305\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Paul-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"Paul\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34305\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Paul-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"Paul\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been sober for three weeks now so a month would be easy! I used to drink about four times a week, but I&#8217;ve decided to cut down. I was at a funeral at a pub last week and drank tea and coffee &#8211; I felt totally comfortable not drinking.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With teetotalism in the UK on the rise, we asked the public how difficult they&#8217;d find it to stop drinking for a month&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":34265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[606],"class_list":["post-34258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Could you go sober for a month? - InterCardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Could you go sober for a month? 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