Newport,
Hey Boss, whenever you're sick and tired of being sick and tired you can stop, seek out AA and go to a meeting, heck go to lots of different ones, find the ones you like and keep going back! You don't need a hard bottom to quit, they will teach you in AA that drinking is a Progressive disease and kind of like an elevator ride, the only thing you need to chose is which floor do YOU want to get off on? I wasted a good part of my life on drinking and have paid some serious consequences, you needn't do that and can save yourself many years of pain. A lot of people attach a stigma to AA, they are wrong in doing so, AA teaches you a new way to LIVE and it works if YOU work it!! Good luck!
"The only step we have to get perfect is the first one."
John