Originally Posted by
DeadToYou 
Great post / answer! I do that once every few months and I have a really good week, but I get into the state of feeling so good that by the next Friday I ask myself, "Hey, why don't we celebrate and have a beer?". Which is, technically the worst idea imaginable and a sign I can't handle it anymore. I'm high-strung all the time as it is, too, and I think it's just too easy to kill it off with a few beers. How did you learn to live without it?
I realised that I couldn't live 'with' it is my honest answer. I just could not physically or mentally abuse myself any more.
I had a lot of great advise from people here and someone introduced me to mindfulness/meditation and NLP
http://www.the-secret-of-mindpower-a...g-beliefs.html
^ that website is amazing - it was paramount to me stopping - if you look down the right hand side of the page there's articles on everything. I read for days. I watched videos lol I've another link that's a favourite of mine just now too
http://tinybuddha.com/blog/freeing-y...ited-or-stuck/
It wasn't any one thing that helped me - getting sober was almost not the hard part. The hard part was facing my life and everyday I make sure I do some work internally on myself - for me it's about personal development now. Drinking was my 'problem' not my reason. I fixed the problem now I have to change the reason.