It gets easier. The first days were the hardest for me.
1. One of the things that helped me in the beginning was "playing the tape all the way to the end": "If I drink now I will feel....and then in an hour...and by tonight....and tomorrow morning I will wake up hungover feeling like crap."
2. Writing out my Pros/Cons list and referring to it often
My cons list was pretty dire....ending up passed-out drunk on the couch in the afternoon like my mom, and then dead at 49.
The pros list was all the things I dreamed about but felt impossible to achieve.
3. For the first month especially, getting to bed sober was my Number One Priority. It was hard, with work and family and STRESS, but I rearranged my priorities so that I could string together sober days.
4. Making non-drinking plans for my prime drinking hours, 5-8PM.
5. Hanging out on SR, reading all the hopeful posts, soaking up knowledge and Recovery Tools.
You can do this.