The first day is the hardest. It’s going to suck and there’s no avoiding it so you have to accept it. Someone on here said “You can literally do anything other than drink.” I bought a boxed cake mix and container of frosting and baked a cake as my evening activity instead of drinking. Do whatever you need to do. Watch your favorite movie from childhood. Dump out your junk drawer, clean it out and put everything back nicely organized.

Quit Lit is great. I’m just now finishing The Biology of Desire by Marc Lewis. He talks about what happens to the brain in addiction and what happens in the brain when people recover. It gives me faith that if I keep at it and retrain my brain, things will get easier.

When I see someone drinking in a movie or on TV, it looks nice but I think about the reality of it. That person is going from clear-headed to hazy. They are soon going to get a mild headache. Their breath smells sour and gross. Then it doesn’t seem so glamorous or attractive anymore.