[quote]CFD it's taken you 5-6 months to cut down to 2 every night.
Genuine questions:
How long do you expect it to take for you to cut down to drinking nothing in a week?
and are you seriously presenting your method as 'successful' enough to present as a possible manifesto* for others (*your word not mine)?
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I honestly don't know. I do know that 2-3 beers per night is not near as bad as 5-6. It's not good, but it is an improvement. I think the most important thing I've learned is that I don't have to drink the whole six pack and when to say I've had enough. I wasn't doing that in the past. In the past there was an internal effort to reach some state of mind where I was drunk and to keep drinking. I don't do that anymore. Last night for example, I had some beer...the family was out of town and some buddies were over. Normally, I would have kept up with them drinking all night. Instead I left half a beer in the bottle. The old me would have kept going all night.
I know I've made a major change. I'll check in.