Ok....so I've had the idea of Day Zero.
Day Zero is the day before day One.....the day where you drink just enough to cut the worst of withdrawals, cook a meal, flake on the sofa watching the usual news horrors and pass out for a bit.
Later in the evening you awake with all the lights on, aircon going, laptop on the floor glaring blue light.
Soda water.....bottles and bottles of it, always one next to the bed.
The night drowsyness is the best time. Its a kind of utter total painless relaxed. This is what alcohol gives.