I just refuse to pick up that first drink.
I drank from 18 to now 39 and quit almost 7 months ago.
I looked at the last 20 or so years of my life and decided I want the next 20 to be different
So far so good. I had tried in the past, but I was never serious about it. This time I was deadly serious and that has made it all the easier.
I just say no. I know where drinking that first drink takes me (and always has so doing it again will be no different) and I refuse to go back to that way of life.
Sunny xx