I stoppped drinking about 4 years ago. I used to be a heavy (especially party) drinker with my longest streak being 5 days black out drinking in a row. Here's

I stoppped drinking about 4 years ago. I used to be a heavy (especially party) drinker with my longest streak being 5 days black out drinking in a row. Here's what helped me TLDR; For me: 1. Having something more interesting than drinking > Fitness 2. Education & reading about long term impact of alcohol consumption 3. Psychedelics - one mushroom trip rewired me So the basic gist is instead of going out aimlessly on the weekend I needed something else to look forward to. I went heavy into Fitness & lifting weights, so then I knew if I drink on fridays I can't lift on saturday, which demotivated me to drink. Also a great excuse for social pressure if people say "Hey, why aren't you drinking?" Me: "I'm going on this fitness challenge and I gotta workout tomorrow morning" Discussion over. Next: Going in small steps and being good to myself. First I went to 14 days no drinking. Then I went to 30 days. Started drinking again. Next time again 30 days when I managed that I went to 90 days, started drinking again, started over and next time 180 days. With each period it became easier to restart the journey again. I journaled a lot reflected on my feelings and went to therapy (related to other issues). After I had my system in place going to the gym regularly, educating myself, not wanting to drink, knowing how to deal with social pressure I went on a magic mushroom trip and it completely rewired my feelings and perception of alcohol. Since then I have no cravings of see alcohol for what it is - a toxic substance that harms me. A book I can recommend is "Sober Curious" by Ruby Warringtom, but I also went deep into Trauma & Addiction here "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" by Gabor Mate (check his talks on Yt) and also read studies e.g. this one https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.10.21256931v1.full.pdf https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.10.21256931v... and the scientific literature is pretty clear: no amount of alcohol is good for you. Good luck my friend!