Yep - can you stop?
What made you come on SR? Others comments that maybe got into your own head a little?
How is alcohol affecting your life- now? so far?
One thing many of us finally learned is that....we hadn't gotten to/done/etc x [yet].
That YET is the key. The progression of alcoholism doesn't stop - if you keep drinking, you can easily progress to whatever you want to call a full blown disease and what was a disaster of a life like mine.
You don't have to though - it's up to you to decide the role you choose to let alcohol play in your life.