Voices of Temporary Sobriety – A Diary Study of an Alcohol-Free Month in Hungary

Figures & data

Table 1. Main themes and sub-categories concerning the Dry November program.

CHALLENGE		2. COMMUNITY		3. RELATIONSHIP TOWARD ALCOHOL AND ABSTINENCE
Accepting the challenge	Challenge strategies	Sharing	Neutral and negative reactions	Alcohol experience	Alcohol abstinence
The participants’ concepts of Dry November	Strategies for keeping the temporary abstinence from alcohol	Types of communities	The reactions of the social environment for the temporary abstinence	Meaning of (and relationships toward) alcohol	Meaning of (and relationships toward) abstinence

Table 2. Impacts of experiences.

	Internal	External
Supporting	self-evaluation, self-care, self understand, pride, productivity	online community, accepting community, supporting, challenge, new activities, new community,
Obstructing	feeling alone, withdrawal symptoms, feeling guilty because of refusing	isolation, force to drink, arguments, wagging, insulting aggressive jokes, belittling

Data availability statement

Data are available on request from the authors. The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, [JR], upon reasonable request.