I abused alcohol for 25 years plus. two fifths of Canadian Club whiskey a day at the end. If my response was not to your liking then by all means feel free to ignore it. I have been down the same road you are going down and therefore I am not addressing a problem that I "read about" somewhere.
Sorry I hurt your feelings; I only know the hard way to get sober. If you have a gentler path or someone gives you advice more to your liking then obviously you should follow that road. I have attended too many funerals in the past several years to sugar coat what I have seen. I haven't tip toed around anything to this point and I will continue to march in the direction that has served me well to this point.
If your direction and thinking is serving you well then stay the course and ignore the cheek of the SOBs you don't care for.
In fact do what I have done more than a few times, stay sober to prove to some old curmudgeon that he is wrong!!
I will look forward to you serving me a healthy platter of crow which I will gladly eat bite by bite on your 1ST sober birthday.
Jon