I really didn't think much about the physical withdrawals much. It was the mental, the obsession, compulsion that I focused on when I first came to recovery. I don't know if you have a Big Book of Alcoholics Annoymous, but I suggest if you don't to get one. It talks about the mental state of alcoholics before drinking. I could relate to that. The Big Book really gives you so much information about alcoholism....and I needed that.