Originally Posted by fantail

Not me, but a friend of mine just went through this. She's not as much of a problem drinker as I was, but she was definitely drinking more than was good for her. So she quit for six months and really, really enjoyed it. She started up again afterwards thinking she would start fresh, and yesterday she said she's decided to quit again. In her experience, it went from being one glass at dinner every two weeks to twice a week to getting too drunk while out. She said it happened a lot faster than she'd expected.