Getting off.....
I've had a method for getting off alcohol. It takes 4 or 5 days. Sometimes I've gotten to day 3 and just felt so **** I had to get some relief. 'I'll taper...', etc
I'd try and get 4 or 5 days before joining a class of whatever month.
a few days in and for the first time in months you sleep through the night and wake feeling human.
I don't really care about controlled drinking. Who'd want that? If you seriously like drinking.....all that is just BS. So no illusions. I do three months, and then I want a whole carton of beer. Then I'm awake at 3.30 a.m, sleepless, so just get up and keep going. My clock is different.
I don't have to go to work, I live alone.....I have money, there are no limits any more.