Lower My Drinking

Breaking Free Group

About this app

Lower My Drinking will give you the expert advice and scientifically-proven tools you need to reduce your drinking to the recommended limit of 14 units a week or less.

Lower My Drinking will guide you to set your drinking goal. Then it will help you achieve this by guiding you to:
• Track your progress towards your drinking goal
• Recognise all the gains you will make by cutting down
• Focus on what is really motivating you to reduce your drinking
• See how your drinking compares to the rest of the population

As well as this, Lower My Drinking will show you the issues that could potentially cause you to drink more than is healthy for you and give you a set of proven skills you can use to address these.

Specifically, these skills will allow you to:
• Change how you think about alcohol and the role it plays in your life
• Anticipate situations that may tempt you to drink too much, and plan how you will limit your drinking when you get there
• Stay calm and relaxed in any situation without having a drink
• Replace drinking in your daily routine with positive activities that will make you feel good
• Manage any impulses to drink at the wrong time or in the wrong place by using a mindfulness technique
• Improve your lifestyle and boost your overall physical and emotional wellbeing

Lower My Drinking has been designed by clinical psychologists and behavioural scientists to help you reduce your drinking to a safer level. Get started today so you can get healthier and feel better!

This app has been subjected to independent user testing which has resulted in several improvements being made to it.

IMPORTANT - PLEASE NOTE: Lower My Drinking is ONLY available to people with a postcode in an area of the UK in which it has been commissioned by a Local Authority, Clinical Commissioning Group or NHS Trust.

To find out if Lower My Drinking has been commissioned in your area, please contact us at [e-mail].

If it is not yet available where you live, you can find your local alcohol support services here: https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/Alcohol-addiction/LocationSearch/1805.

Ratings and reviews

I wanted something that would make it easier to track alcohol consumption on a daily basis. This app seems to only allow you to enter details on a weekly basis, having to enter one set of data for total consumption on weekdays and another on weekends. I've uninstalled this app and switched to one that allows the tracking of individual drinks and provides better tracking information as well.

Irrelevant info required, asked to create an account (what for? the data it needs and collects can be stored locally - the phone or tablet it's installed on), asked for a postcode (again for what purpose, other than information farming) and email address. I got as far as it asking for a postcode, then uninstalled it.

This app is absolutely brilliant. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to make a positive change.