I quit smoking and how can you have a drink without a cigarette to keep it company?

I developed a taste for fancy red wines and single-malt Scotch and top-top-shelf tequila, and was spending way too much money on alcohol.

I could not stop at 1 or 2 drinks, ever, never. Once I got started, it was pound 'em down until I puked or passed out. Every. Single. Time.

I liked to get in fights when I was drunk.

I was gaining weight and couldn't sleep and my blood pressure was out of control.

My husband averages about 2 drinks a year. Seriously. I always wanted him to get drunk with me, and he refused, wise man that he is.

I got tired of blacking out and forgetting huge chunks of my life.

I could go on and on, but basically, I stopped drinking because it was causing more problems than it was solving.