Originally Posted by
Purpleknight 
Alcohol was a "gateway" to a lot of other behaviours for me, when I took out alcohol, everything else went by the wayside!!
Ditto.
You can do this MJ. Start with removing the alcohol from your life. I still have urges to use cocaine and gamble but nothing remotely close to my urge to drink!
Don't take that first drink, keep your guard up and hopefully the other urges will lessen. With an addictive personality, I'm not sure if the urges will ever just "go away"; at least for me anyway.
Stay strong!