I tried weekends only.They soon started on Thursday lunchtimes and I was rough till the following Tuesday morning
Total abstinence is the only way for me. Stopping drinking is freedom-freedom from the prison of alcohol,the planning,counting drinks,days, hours, planning, obsessing, crazy behaviour,attemptng to moderate,fighting it all the time, the sheer furstration of it. All that stops when you stop drinking. You have peace of mind