Hi anewpage,
If you are unsure then perhaps the best first step is to try moderating your drinking to a level you feel is reasonable, healthy, and risk free. If you can do that then great, but if you can't then you probably need to join the club of us for whom total abstinence is the only solution. But I can honestly say that I now love sobriety so much that I wouldn't want to drink moderately anyway, though that was not how I felt when I gave up.