Does Dry January last? By August: 4.3 → 3.3 days.
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Does Dry January actually last? One study checked back in August.
On average, drinking days went from 4.3 a week to 3.3, and times drunk from 3.4 a month to 2.1 (self-reported).
People who didn't make the whole month saw the same changes, just a bit smaller.
Sources
University of Sussex news, 2 Jan 2019 (de Visser)
What the study says
- “The research, led by Sussex psychologist Dr Richard de Visser, was conducted with over 800 people who took part in Dry January in 2018.”
- “units consumed per drinking day dropped on average from 8.6 to 7.1;”
- “frequency of being drunk dropped from 3.4 per month to 2.1 per month on average.”
- “by August people are reporting one extra dry day per week.”
- “Dr de Visser's findings come from three self-completed online surveys: 2,821 on registering for Dry January; 1,715 in the first week of February; and 816 participants in August.”
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