Originally Posted by
Horselover 
Hi Geoff. Welcome to SR. I had a lot of false starts myself and I also played the mental games of "I'll keep it to Fridays and Saturdays." "I won't buy this kind of alcohol." "I'll only drink at restaurants." I got too tired and discouraged with that and decided it was easier to just finally eliminate it from my life. It took a lot of hard work and still can be hard work, but its less exhausting then the games I was playing before.
I hope you find what you are looking for. Its nice you've joined SR!!
You are right. It is so much easier to completely abstain rather than moderate. If I drank one day per week it would last about two weeks, maybe a little longer and then I would be back to seven nights per week.