It's funny because we all have to train ourselves to stop drinking with the hopes that it becomes natural to not drink and it does happen this way. And in concert with that you have to train yourself to not spend with the hopes you get used to that as well so when you get out of debt you can then save for things you want.
Just stopping drinking is not the only thing a lot of us have to do. We have a lot of housekeeping to do in our daily lives. Being the alcoholics we were our lives were in shambles. And just like practice makes perfect we have to get ourselves inline and back to being respectable so we can care about ourselves and others.