Originally Posted by
OklaBH 
Sorry. New Years has nothing to do with it.
Amen to that.
You can't circle a date on the calendar, or use some significant anniversary of some sort of event to use that as the day 1 of sobriety.
Your day 1 will probably be a day that has no significance to you or anyone else. It will happen on some random day not because it was THAT date. It will happen because THAT was the date was the day you decided it was time to quit and quit for good. If you keep failing at your attempts, try different techniques or make a change in your lifestyle, routines, etc.