Originally Posted by
Threshold 
Instead of torturing myself with the "I cannot drink again EVER" (beats breast and heaps ashes on head) I use the blander "I'm a nondrinker"...that's pretty easy to swallow. There are many non drinkers, it's really not that dramatic or extreme...it really helps me when I cut the drama out. I was all kinds of addicted to drama.
A good point. When I quit smoking it becaqme easier when I decided that I wanted to be a non-smoker. To say, "I'm trying to quit" conjured pictures of anguish, and it gave me a loophole. If I though of myself as a non-smoker then the option was no longer on the table.