My sobriety start date has been just before Lent, so alcohol is the obvious choice. I plan to dedicate some of the time in the evenings when I would otherwise have been drunk to prayer, meditation and reading uplifting and up-building literature. For almsgiving I plan to calculate what I would have normally spent on alcohol and split it between a charity and having some in my pocket to help beggars that I meet when I'm out and about in the city.