Originally Posted by
lessgravity 
8 months is awesome, thank you for sharing.
Many of us esteem to get there. Tell us about how you got to where you are.
It was the insight that it couldn't go on really. I didn't think much about it. I didn't experience much withdrawal symptoms and didn't know about all that stuff either, so I just didn't pay any attention to it. I just cleaned up the mess and moved on.
Later I learned more about it after a family-member almost died from alcoholism, which is how I ended up here. Googling on the subject.