I probably quit about 50 times but (to keep banging this drum) I never changed a single other thing. I’d sit there in front of the TV or computer missing my usual glass of alcohol. To paraphrase Einstein, don’t keep doing the same old stuff over and over. Once I got some confidence and self belief to get out there and do other things, I realised quitting was possible. OK, I still had the pesky withdrawals, but I now had other distractions to make the early weeks pass that little bit easier. Sitting there pining over the absent alcohol isn’t a robust way of quitting. The way I live now and the people I mix with don’t really go with alcohol. I wouldn’t change it for anything, but like most people I wish I’d quit a lot earlier.