If I drink any--at all--any more, I really feel sick the next day. My body simply can't take alcohol any more, ElChupacbra. Perhaps your body is trying to tell you the same.
We are lucky that we have jobs in which we want to remain competitive/productive: wanting to do more, accomplish more, than I can when my brain is fuzzy is a great motivator to stay off this stuff. I need every one of the brain cells that remain ; - )
I have to tell you though, I have gone back and forth with the decision to quit for over a year now: what a waste of time (and brain cells). I cannot control my drinking for an extended period of time; it only gets worse; and life is ticking by. There's no discussion about this for me (to myself) anymore. I know it to be true.
It is so simple, I know: we simply don't pick up that first drink. (I picked up my last drink on Feb. 13, and I want it to be my last, last.)
Best of luck with this, ElChupacbra. Let's both keep posting.