Originally Posted by
DriGuy 
I've read descriptions of alcoholics that just quit one day and never looked back, but that's only how it looked to an outsider that described it. I can't believe that such alcoholics hadn't been quietly doing a lot of processing for a long time, before they supposedly "just quit."
I just quit for the first time on a spur of the moment morning decision. I also have been thinking about how I need to quit, every day for the last 10 years. So I'm positive that is correct.