Originally Posted by
Sober45 
Going out on a limb here but this thread is making me a little anxious. I don’t believe anyone really knows what will work for someone else. I had many epiphanies over the years where I quit on the spot but it never stuck. This time I picked a quit date a couple weeks in advance. I used the time leading up to it to get mentally prepared and to think about how I would use my
time when sober. This is the second longest time I’ve gone without a drink in many years. Idk maybe I’m the odd one out
My $0.02 on this is that we don't indeed nor exactly know what will work for anyone else. What we do know is that the choice to keep drinking won't be good. So however we can share our ESH (experience, strength and hope) as AA calls it, and other programs have their versions of this - that's what matters. At the end of the day, "it keeps getting better" means we have a chance at life.